American Capitalism, 1945-2000 Continuity and Change from Mass Production to the Information Society

Name: American Capitalism, 1945-2000 Continuity and Change from Mass Production to the Information Society
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ISBN: 9781566635387

ISBN-10: 1566635381

ISBN-13: 9781566635387

Edition: 2003

Authors: Wyatt C. Wells

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A compact and incisive history of the American economy since 1945, concentrating on the development of economic policy, economic structure, and ideas about both, and explaining the complex interaction of these factors over the past half-century. Concise, swiftly paced...not only stimulating and enlightening, but also reassuring. --William E. Leuchtenburg

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Publication date: 7/26/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Wyatt Wells is associate professor of history at Auburn University at Montgomery. He is the author of Economist in an Uncertain World: Arthur F. Burns and the Federal Reserve, 1970-1978.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Paradox of American Capitalism



The Postwar Boom


The issue of investment


Planning a new world order


Reconversion


Postwar reconstruction abroad


Contours of prosperity


The economics of reform


Conservative economics



The Go-Go Economy


The New Economics


The New Economics in practice


The go-go stock market


The service economy


The New Economics in trouble


The monetarist challenge


Nixon's economy



The Great Stagflation


A great crash


A new international regime?


The new regulation


The Carter administration


Deregulation


The Reagan Revolution


Beneath the surface



Adjusting to New Realities


The dual economy


Laissez faire?


The twin deficits


Reorganization


Finance


Third world debt and the issue of development


The trials of George Bush



The "New Economy"


Reform and deficits


The New Economy


Globalization


Issues and campaigns



The Ways of Wealth


A Note on Sources


Index