Second thoughts : myths and morals of U.S. economic history /
For this important new volume, Donald N. McCloskey has assembled twenty-four essays by leading economic historians who argue that commonly accepted perceptions of our economic past can be wrong and, therefore, misleading. The essays reevaluate various issues and events that influence today's ec...
| Автор-организации: | Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Oxford University Press,
1995, ℗♭1993.
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Съдържание:
- Introduction : looking forward into history / Donald N. McCloskey
- How tough are times in the Third World? / Jeffrey G. Williamson
- Do we really need all these immigrants? / Julian L. Simon and Rita James Simon
- Do imperial powers get rich off their colonies? / Lance E. Davis and Robert A. Huttenback
- How military mobilization hurts the economy / Robert Higgs
- Does workers' compensation make for a safer workplace? / Price V. Fishback
- American farming : if it's broke, why can't we fix it? / Lee J. Alston
- How can displaced workers find better jobs? / Elizabeth Hoffman
- What is the key to Black progress? / Robert A. Margo
- The Equal Rights Amendment : yes, but whose? / Elyce J. Rotella
- As good as gold : by what standard? / Barry Eichengreen
- Who's afraid of the big bad trade deficit? / Mark Thomas
- The Great Depression : can it happen again? / John Wallis.
- The income tax : an idea whose time has gone and come? / Benjamin Baack and Edward Ray
- Are government giveaways really free? / Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill
- Do Americans want big government? / Jonathan Hughes
- Should we reregulate the banks? / Richard Sylla
- Can price controls work? / Hugh Rockoff
- The Securities Exchange Commission : where from, where to? / Susan M. Phillips and J. Richard Zecher
- Fulton's folly / Gary M. Walton
- Down the primrose path / Peter Temin
- What really happened at Teapot Dome? / Gary Libecap
- Does government intervention in the economy hurt competitiveness, or help it? / Paul Uselding
- Competitiveness and the antieconomics of decline / Donald N. McCloskey
- Does science shape economic progress, or is it the other way around? / Nathan Rosenberg.