Depression, war, and cold war
Subtitle: studies in political economy
By: Robert Higgs.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780195182927
Subjects: War -- Economic aspects -- United States.; Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.; United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Regime uncertainty : why the great depression lasted so long and why prosperity resumed after the war; value: Private profit, public risk : institutional antecedents of the modern military procurement system in the rearmament program of 1940-1941; value: Wartime prosperity? a reassessment of the U.S. economy in the 1940s; value: Wartime socialization of investment : a reassessment of U.S. capital formation in the 1940s; value: From central planning to the market : the American transition, 1945-1947; value: The cold war economy : opportunity costs, ideology, and the politics of crisis; value: Hard coals make bad law : congressional parochialism versus national defense; value: Airplanes the Pentagon didn't want, but Congress did; value: Profits of U.S. defense contractors; value: Public opinion : a powerful predictor of U.S. defense spending.