The American economy, its origins, development, and transformation : an introduction to economics /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Englewood Cliffs, N.J. :
Prentice-Hall,
1960
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| Series: | Prentice-Hall economics series
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Table of Contents:
- How our basic economic institutions originated in Europe: 1. Introductory explanations and concepts
- 2. The late-medieval background
- 3. The emergence of capitalism
- 4. The beginning of scientific technology
- 5. The formulation of capitalism theory
- How factors of production and economic institutions were transplanted and adapted to an american environment: 6. Transference and diffusion of economic institutions in the Colonial Period
- 7. Public policy, economic development and the beginning of transformation
- How more efficient economic institutions and productive methods were developed and perfected in the 19th and 20th Centuries: 8. The improvement and extension of technology
- 9. The evolution of business enterprise and corporate management
- 10. Adapting financial institutions to American environment
- 11. Formation and development of labor organizations
- 12. Expansion of agriculture and emergence of a chronic farm problem
- 13. The changing economic functions of government
- How our economic system has worked in peace and war and how it has influenced economic thinking: 14. How wars changed the American economy
- 15. The adaptation of economic thought to economic change.