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The dixification of America : the American odyssey into the conservative economic trap / Stephen D. Cummings.
Lippincott Library HC107.A13 C85 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cummings, Stephen D., 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conservatism.
- History.
- Economic policy.
- Southern States--Economic policy.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--Economic conditions--1945-.
- Economic conditions.
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ).
- Conservatism--Southern States--History--20th century.
- Conservatism--United States--History--20th century.
- United States.
- United States--Economic policy.
- United States--Economic conditions--1945-.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 221 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1998.
- Summary:
- It is not free-spending liberals who have been driving this country to its current level of economic anxiety, the author argues, but a union of conservative Republican and conservative Southern economic policy.
- Contents:
- Part I The Laying of the Trap
- 1. At the Crossroads of Anxiety 3
- 2. The Road to Dixification 9
- 3. The Early American Economy, 1600-1920 37
- 4. The First Conservative Era, 1921-1933 51
- 5. The Second Conservative Era, 1969 to the Present 69
- 6. The Southern Economy, 1865 to the Present 99
- 7. The Conservative Economic Trap 123
- Part II America's Economic Future
- 8. Economic Development Concepts and Strategies 135
- 9. The Next Industrial Wave 153
- 10. The New Economic Structure 169
- 11. Notes on Creativity 183
- 12. The New Economic Liberalism 191.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-210) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0275962083
- OCLC:
- 38024199
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