Title: The price of progress
First published: 2003
Description: "Between the Civil War and the Great Depression, twin revolutions swept through American business and government. In business, large corporations came to dominate entire sectors and markets. In government, new services and agencies, especially at the city and state levels, sprang up to ameliorate a broad spectrum of social problems. In The Price of Progress, R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson offers a fresh analysis of the relationship between those two revolutions.".

"Using previously unexploited data from the annual reports of state treasurers and comptrollers, he provides a detailed, empirical assessment of the goods and services provided to citizens, as well as the resources extracted from them, by state governments during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

Focusing on New York, Massachusetts, California, and Kansas, but also including data on thirteen other states, his comparative study suggests that tax policies designed to finance new and innovative government services led to the emergence of the modern "corporate state.""--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: States, History, Politics and government, Economic conditions, Corporate state, Government spending policy, Taxation, Taxation, united states, United states, politics and government, United states, economic conditions, Public Finance, USA, U.S. states, Steuerpolitik, Geschichte 1877-1929, USA Government, Öffentlicher Dienst, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Economic history
Places: United States
LC classification: HJ2053.A1 H54 2003