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1 online resource (520 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; I. The Economy at Midcentury; 1. The War's Consequences; 2. The Inheritance of the Preceding Decades; II. Highlights of Change in the Postwar Era; 3. Some Deeper Currents in the Recent Past; 4. A Brief Overview of Post-World War II Expansions; 5. Science and Technology; 6. Overview of U.S. Science and Technology; 7. Technology and Natural Resource Use; 8. In the Shadow of the Bomb; III. Changes in the Structure of the Economy; 9. Changes in Industry Shares of National Output |
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10. Taking In Each Other's Laundry-The Service Economy 11. Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Area Populations; 12. City and Suburban Populations; 13. State Population Trends; 14. Geographical Mobility; 15. Allocation of the National Output among Functions; 16. Regional Perspectives; 17. U.S. Agriculture: Hard Realities and New Opportunities |
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18. Changes in U.S. Industrial Structure: The Role of Global Forces, Secular Trends, and Transitory Cycles19. Historical Data on Public Transit; 20. The Road More Traveled; 21. Is There a Shortfall in Public Capital Investment?; 22. Anatomy of the Voluntary Nonprofit Sector; 23. A Monetary Perspective on Underground Economic Activity in the United States; 24. Managerial Decline: The Military Industrial Influence; 25. Health Care: Dynamic Technology and Changing Demographics; IV. The Evolution of the Business Sector; 26. The Company in the Postwar World |
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27. Recent Developments in Corporate Finance28. The State of Small Business: A Report of the President; V. The Labor Force and Labor Organization; 29. Issues in Labor Supply; 30. The 1980s: A Decade of Job Growth and Industry Shifts; 31. The Changing Labor Force: Some Provocative Findings; 32. The Labor Movement; VI. Changing Material Conditions and the Quality of Life; 33. Social and Economic Change since the Great Depression: Studies of Census Data, 1940-80; 34. The Changing Fortunes of American Families in the 1980s; 35. Wage Inequality Takes a Great U-Turn |
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36. Trends in the Distribution of Wealth among American Families37. How Family Spending Has Changed in the United States; 38. American Living Standards; 39. Participation in Government Benefits Programs; 40. Health Status of the American Population; 41. The Crisis in Health Insurance; 42. We the Americans ... Our Homes; 43. Family-Related Benefits in the Workplace; 44. Children in Two-Worker Families and Real Family Income; 45. Economic Status of the Elderly; 46. The Social and Economic Status of the Black Population; 47. In Black America, Life Grows Shorter |
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48. We the American ... Hispanics |
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Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Vatter, Harold G
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| ISBN |
9781315703671 |
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131570367X |
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