The state and economic knowledge: the American and British experiences / edited by Mary O. Furner and Barry Supple
1990, 1st Edition. Cambridge: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Cambridge University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #345053
ISBN: 0521394244
Physical description: xiv, 477 pages; 23 cm. Contents: Ideas, institutions, and state in the United States and Britain / Mary O. Furner and Barry Supple -- Economic knowledge and government in Britain: some historical and comparative reflections / Donald Winch -- Liberty by design: freedom, planning, and John Quincy Adams's American system / John Lauritz Larson -- Government as a laboratory for economic learning in the years of the Democratic Roosevelt / William J. Barber -- The emergence of economic growthmanship in the United States: federal policy and economic knowledge in the Truman years / Robert M. Collins -- The treasury's analytical model of the British economy between the wars / Peter Clarke -- Old dogs and new tricks: the British treasury and Keynesian economics in the 1940's and 1950's / George C. Peden -- Knowing capitalism: public investigation and the labor question in the long Progressive Era / Mary O. Furner -- Economic inquiry and the state in New Era America: antistatist corporatism and positive statism in uneasy coexis. Subjects: Economics United States History; Congresses. Administrative agencies United States History; Congresses. Administrative agencies Great Britain History.
Economics History 20th century.
Price: €75.00