Title Accumulation and Power : Economic History of the United States

Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (236 pages) Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; FIGURE AND TABLES; PREFACE; 1 THE FLOW OF ECONOMIC HISTORY: ACCUMULATION, MONOPOLIZATION, COMPETITION ; 2 ACCUMULATION AND THE CHANGING STRUCTURE OF BUSINESS, 1790-1860 ; The Years before 1840; 1840-1860: The Germs of Industrial Transformation; The Economy of 1860: The Limits of Change; 3 THE GRAND TRAVERSE OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY, 1865-1900; The Grand Traverse: In Quest of an Explanation; The Fabric of Accumulation: Demand and Supply 1865-1900; Winds of Change: The Consequences of the New Accumulation; 4 THE NEW AGE OF MONOPOLIZATION, 1875-1902 The Railroads: Big Business Pioneer?The Rise of Big Business, 1875-1895; The Causes of Monopoly: Bigger is Better?; The Great Merger Movement of 1898-1902; The Reign of Finance Capital; Conclusion; 5 INVESTMENT, GROWTH, AND INSTABILITY: OLIGOPOLY AND THE PURSUIT OF PROSPERITY, 1900-1929; The Oligopoly Firm: Investment Behavior and Effects; From Instability to Settled Oligopoly, 1903-1920; The Second Merger Movement, 1916-1929; Toward a ""New Era"" of Prosperity, 1917-1929; The End of the Boom: 1929 and All That; 6 INVESTMENT, GROWTH, AND INSTABILITY: THE GREAT POSTWAR BOOM, 1945-1972 The 1945-1949 Business Cycle and Its AftermathThe Course of Private Spending, 1947-1972; The Third Merger Movement, 1953-1969; Conclusion; 7 INVESTMENT, GROWTH, AND INSTABILITY: STAGFLATION AND THE CORPORATE COUNTERATTACK, 1973-1988; Aggregate Demand: Investment, Consumption, and the Public Sector; The Faltering Economy and the Curb on Government; Stagflation and the Assault on the Social Wage; Reaganomics and the Fourth Merger Movement; Conclusion; 8 FOREIGN TRADE AND FOREIGN INVESTMENT: THE ROAD TO HEGEMONY AND BACK, 1880-1988; The Emergence of the Yankee Colossus, 1880-1929 Projecting Oligopoly Abroad: The Rise of Direct InvestmentControlling Overseas Domains: Foreign and Domestic Means; The World the Dollar Built: The Climax of U.S. Power, 1944-1971; The End of Bretton Woods and the Empire in Decline; Trade and Investment in the 1980s: The Costs of Reaganomics; The United States in the World Economy: New Role, Old Habits; 9 ECONOMIC GROWTH IN THE CORPORATE ERA: TRENDS, TRIUMPHS, PARADOXES; A Century of Monopolization: Change and Continuity; Long-Term Growth: A Comparative Perspective; The Distribution of Income and Wealth; The Public Sector in the United States What Hath Capitalism Wrought: The American ""Social Welfare Function""Whither American Capitalism?; ENDNOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR Notes Print version record Subject Saving and investment -- United States -- History Capital investments -- United States -- History Monopolies -- United States -- History Competition -- United States -- History Capitalism -- United States -- History BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions. Capital investments Capitalism Competition Monopolies Saving and investment United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781315492407 1315492407

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