Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 387 pages)
ISBN:
9780300168754
,
0300168756
,
1283096226
,
9781283096225
,
0300188161
,
9780300151091
,
9780300188165
,
0300151098
,
0019331339
Serie:
Yale series in economic and financial history
Inhalt:
This bold re-examination of the history of U.S. economic growth is built around a novel claim, that productive capacity grew dramatically across the Depression years (1929-1941) and that this advance provided the foundation for the economic and military success of the United States during the Second World War as well as for the golden age (1948-1973) that followed. Alexander J. Field takes a fresh look at growth data and concludes that, behind a backdrop of double-digit unemployment, the 1930s actually experienced very high rates of technological and organizational innovation, fueled by the maturing of a privately funded research and development system and the government-funded build-out of the country's surface road infrastructure. This significant new volume in the Yale Series in Economic and Financial History invites new discussion of the causes and consequences of productivity growth over the last century and a half and on our current prospects.
Inhalt:
The most technologically progressive decade of the century -- The interwar years -- The Second World War -- The Golden Age and beyond -- The information technology boom -- Fin de Siecle : the late nineteenth century in the mirror of the twentieth -- Procyclical TFP -- The equipment hypothesis -- General-purpose technologies -- Financial fragility and recovery -- Uncontrolled land development and the duration of the Depression -- Do economic downturns have a silver lining?
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780300151091
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Field, Alexander James A great leap forward New Haven, Conn. [u.a.] : Yale Univ. Press, 2011 ISBN 0300151098
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780300188165
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780300151091
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Field, Alexander J Great leap forward New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Schlagwort(e):
USA
;
Depression
;
Geschichte 1929-1939
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