Depression, war, and cold war
Subtitle: challenging the myths of conflict and prosperity
By: Robert Higgs.
Publisher: Independent Institute
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oakland, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781598130294
Subjects: War -- Economic aspects -- United States; Depressions -- 1929 -- United States; United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
Notes: Originally published: Oakland, CA : Independent Institute, c2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Regime uncertainty why the Great Depression lasted so long and why prosperity resumed after the war; title: Private profit, public risk institutional antecedents of the modern military procurement system in the rearmament program of 1940-41; title: Wartime prosperity? : a reassessment of the U.S. economy in the 1940s; title: Wartime socialization of investment; title: A reassessment of U.S. capital formation in the 1940s; title: From central planning to the market the American transition, 1945-7; title: The cold war economy opportunity costs, ideology, and the politics of crisis; title: Hard coals make bad law; title: Airplanes the Pentagon didn't want, but Congress did; title: Profits of U.S. defense contractors; title: Public opinion.