One of the first U.S. economic history texts on the market, this classic ties America's past to the economic policies and debates of today and beyond. Presenting economic events chronologically for easy understanding, the authors equip students with a firm foundation in the evolution of American economic history.

History of the American Economy

Business & Money

Walton, Gary M.

Rockoff, Hugh

Economics

South-Western College Pub.

One of the first U.S. economic history books on the market, this classic text ties America's past to the economic policies and debates of today and beyond. Presenting economic events chronologically for ease of understanding and to provide continuity, the authors equip students with a firm foundation in the evolution of American economic history.

South-Western

History of the American Economy (Book Only)

Tying America's past to the economic policies of today and beyond, HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY 11e presents events chronologically for easy understanding. Get a firm foundation in the evolution of the American economy with this ever-popular classic.

History of the American Economy, With Infotrac

This is a history of America's use of wage and price controls from colonial times to Richard Nixon's experiment with controls in the 1970s. It explores the impact of controls on prices and productivity, side-effects such as the growth of black markets and the expansion of government, and the relationship between controls and monetary policy. The central conclusion is that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, there are situations where the net effect of controls can be positive. In particular, temporary controls may reduce the unemployment and lost output usually associated with disinflation.

Drastic Measures: A History of Wage and Price Controls in the United States (Studies in Economic History and Policy: USA in the Twentieth Century)

Cambridge University Press

This is a history of America's use of wage and price controls from colonial times to Richard Nixon's experiment with controls in the 1970s. It explores the impact of controls on prices and productivity, side-effects such as the growth of black markets and the expansion of government, and the relationship between controls and monetary policy. The central conclusion is that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, there are situations where the net effect of controls can be positive. In particular, temporary controls may reduce the unemployment and lost output usually associated with disinflation.

How did economic and financial factors determine how America waged war in the twentieth century? This important new book exposes the influence of economics and finance on the questions of whether the nation should go to war, how wars would be fought, how resources would be mobilized, and the long-term consequences for the American economy. Ranging from the Spanish-American War to the Gulf War, Hugh Rockoff explores the ways in which war can provide unique opportunities for understanding the basic principles of economics as wars produce immense changes in monetary and fiscal policy and so provide a wealth of information about how these policies actually work. He shows that wars have been more costly to the United States than most Americans realize as a substantial reliance on borrowing from the public, money creation and other strategies to finance America's war efforts have hidden the true cost of war.

America's Economic Way of War: War and the US Economy from the Spanish-American War to the Persian Gulf War (New Approaches to Economic and Social History)

The Sinews of War: Essays on the Economic History of World War II

History

Mills, Geofrey T.

Military

Iowa State Pr

AIDS Drugs For All: Social Movements and Market Transformations

Drawing on a rich set of interviews and surveys, this book shows how the global AIDS treatment advocacy movement helped millions in the developing world gain access to life-saving medication. The movement achieved this by transforming the market for AIDS drugs from one which was 'low volume, high price' to one based on access for all. The authors suggest that a movement's ability to transform markets depends upon whether: (1) markets are contestable; (2) they have framed their arguments to resonate across their target audiences; (3) the movement itself has a coherent goal; (4) the costs are low, or the benefit-to-cost ratio is favourable; and, finally, (5) institutions are present to reward continued achievement of the new market principle. These insights are applied to a range of other cases including malaria, maternal mortality, water/diarrheal disease, non-communicable diseases, education, climate change, the ivory trade, sex trafficking and the Atlantic slave trade.

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Books by Rockoff, Hugh

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History of the American Economy

History of the American Economy

History of the American Economy (Book Only)

History of the American Economy, With Infotrac

Drastic Measures: A History of Wage and Price Controls in the United States (Studies in Economic History and Policy: USA in the Twentieth Century)

Drastic Measures: A History of Wage and Price Controls in the United States (Studies in Economic History and Policy: USA in the Twentieth Century)

America's Economic Way of War: War and the US Economy from the Spanish-American War to the Persian Gulf War (New Approaches to Economic and Social History)

America's Economic Way of War: War and the US Economy from the Spanish-American War to the Persian Gulf War (New Approaches to Economic and Social History)

The Sinews of War: Essays on the Economic History of World War II

America's Economic Way of War: War and the US Economy from the Spanish-American War to the Persian Gulf War (New Approaches to Economic and Social History)