More : the politics of economic growth in postwar America / Robert M. Collins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, Robert M., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wealth--United States--History--20th century.

Wealth.

Liberalism--United States--History--20th century.

Liberalism.

National characteristics, American.

United States--Economic policy.

United States.

United States--Economic conditions--1945-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An expansion and extension of David Potter's famous People of Plenty, Robert Collins' book explores the growth of America in terms of material prosperity. He interweaves economic history and cultural analysis into his study of postwar growth politics.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue: The Ambiguity of New Deal Economics; 1 The Emergence of Economic Growthmanship; 2 The Ascendancy of Growth Liberalism; 3 Growth Liberalism Comes a Cropper, 1968; 4 Richard Nixon's Whig Growthmanship; 5 The Retreat from Growth in the 1970's; 6 The Reagan Revolution and Antistatist Growthmanship; 7 Slow Drilling in Hard Boards; Conclusion; Notes; Index;

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771472-2

0-19-028826-4

0-19-802152-6

1-282-36706-4

9786612367069

0-19-534848-6

1-60256-766-2

OCLC:

476022824