The price of progress : public services, taxation, and the American corporate state, 1877 to 1929 / R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Higgens-Evenson, R. Rudy (Ronald Rudy), 1969-

Series:

Reconfiguring American political history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government spending policy--United States--States.

Government spending policy.

Taxation--United States--History--States.

Taxation.

Corporate state--United States--History.

Corporate state.

History.

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

Politics and government.

United States--Economic conditions.

Economic conditions.

United States--Politics and government--1865-1900.

United States--Politics and government--1901-1953.

United States--Economic conditions--1865-1918.

United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.

Physical Description:

x, 168 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Summary:

"A clearly written and well-researched explanation of the rise of a tax system favorable to corporations in terms of the unintended consequences of states' attempts to deal with the demands for new social services." -- Michael McGerr, author of The Decline of Popular Politics: The American North, 1865-1928

Contents:

Compromise, corruption, and confrontation : tax reform in the 1870s

Progress, bit by bit : school and insane asylum spending, 1880 to 1900

From charter-mongering to catching corporate freeloaders : corporation taxes, 1880-1909

The second era of internal improvements : transportation spending, 1890 to 1929

Consent, control, and centralization : school and hospital spending, 1900 to 1929

Giants of history : income and gasoline taxation, 1907 to 1929

The test of democracy : controlling spending in the corporate state, 1907 to 1929.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [135]-154) and index.

ISBN:

0801870542

OCLC:

48966555