Government and the American economy :  a new history / 
Price Fishback ... [et al.]. 
 - Chicago :  University of Chicago Press,  2007. 
 - xix, 613 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Government and the economy / Price Fishback -- Government in colonial America  / Stanley L. Engerman -- The founding era, 1774-1791 / Robert A. McGuire -- Property rights and federal land policy / Gary D. Libecap -- Reversing financial reversals: government and the financial system since 1789 / Richard Sylla -- The national era / John Joseph Wallis -- The Civil War and Reconstruction / Jeffrey Rogers Hummel -- Government and the American dilemma / Robert A. Margo -- The Gilded Age / Mark Guglielmo and Werner Troesken -- The Progressive Era / Price Fishback -- Government and the people: labor, education, and health / Sumner J. La Croix -- The federal bureaucracy: from patronage to civil service / Gary D. Libecap -- The New Deal / Price Fishback -- The world wars / Robert Higgs -- The growth of U.S. farm programs / Randal R. Rucker and E. C. Pasour Jr. -- Shaping welfare policy: the role of the south / Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie -- Seeking security in the postwar era / Price Fishback. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226251271 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226251276 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226251288 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0226251284 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006037643 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA676018  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>013546762  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Economic policy.<br/>United States--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HC103  / G676 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>330.973