American Capitalism, 1945-2000
Subtitle: Continuity and Change from Mass Production to the Information Society (American Ways Series)
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
Published: September 25, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781566635387
Subjects: Economics, Finance, Business and Industry; Free Enterprise; Economic Conditions; History; Business / Economics / Finance; United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000); History: American; The Americas; USA; Economic History; History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); Americas (North Central South West Indies); 1945-; Economic policy; United States
Description: Wells examines the development of economic policy, economic structure, and ideas about both, explaining the complex interaction of these factors over the past half-century. Capitalism private, profit-seeking enterprises provided a stable framework, says Wells (history, Auburn U.), within which the US economy changed radically over the last half of the 20th century. He describes the changes decade by decade. Wells examines the development of economic policy, economic structure, and ideas about both, explaining the complex interaction of these factors over the past half-century.