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The Price of Progress. Public Services, Taxation, and the American Corporate State, 1877 to 1929.
R.Rudy Higgens-Evenson
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By the 1920s, a variety of "corporate stateshad proliferated across the nation, each shaped by a particular mix of taxation and public services, each offering a case study in how the business of America, as President Calvin Coolidge put it, became business. Series: Reconfiguring American Political History. Num Pages: 184 pages, 45, 45 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JPQB; KCP; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 385.
Between the Civil War and the Great Depression, twin revolutions swept through American business and government. In business, large corporations came to dominate entire sectors and markets. In government, new services and agencies, especially at the city and state levels, sprang up to ameliorate a broad spectrum of social problems. In The Price of Progress, R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson offers a fresh analysis of therelationship between those two revolutions. Using previously unexploited data from the annual reports of state treasurers and comptrollers, he provides a detailed, empirical assessment of the goods and services provided to citizens, as well as the ... Read more
Between the Civil War and the Great Depression, twin revolutions swept through American business and government. In business, large corporations came to dominate entire sectors and markets. In government, new services and agencies, especially at the city and state levels, sprang up to ameliorate a broad spectrum of social problems. In The Price of Progress, R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson offers a fresh analysis of therelationship between those two revolutions. Using previously unexploited data from the annual reports of state treasurers and comptrollers, he provides a detailed, empirical assessment of the goods and services provided to citizens, as well as the ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Series
Reconfiguring American Political History
Number of Pages
184
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801870545
SKU
V9780801870545
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About R.Rudy Higgens-Evenson
R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson works for the National Park Service at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in San Francisco.
Reviews for The Price of Progress. Public Services, Taxation, and the American Corporate State, 1877 to 1929.
This fine study contributes to our understanding of the growth of centralized authority and government bureaucracy in a nation often described as hostile to such things.
Jason Scott Smith Journal of American History 2004 A very welcome addition to scholarship on the history of public finance.
W. Elliot Brownlee EH.Net 2003 The author documents the evolution, often controversial, ... Read more
Jason Scott Smith Journal of American History 2004 A very welcome addition to scholarship on the history of public finance.
W. Elliot Brownlee EH.Net 2003 The author documents the evolution, often controversial, ... Read more