Author: Robert E Wright
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040242278
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This volume assembles a broad selection of rare primary resource materials in the form of essays, reports, books and compendia informing on US public finances in the late eighteenth century. It investigates the debates put forward, from which comparisons with today's debt can be drawn.
The US National Debt, 1787-1900 Vol 1
Author: Robert E Wright
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040242278
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This volume assembles a broad selection of rare primary resource materials in the form of essays, reports, books and compendia informing on US public finances in the late eighteenth century. It investigates the debates put forward, from which comparisons with today's debt can be drawn.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040242278
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This volume assembles a broad selection of rare primary resource materials in the form of essays, reports, books and compendia informing on US public finances in the late eighteenth century. It investigates the debates put forward, from which comparisons with today's debt can be drawn.
The US National Debt, 1787-1900 Vol 2
Author: Robert E Wright
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040238386
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
This volume assembles a broad selection of rare primary resource materials in the form of essays, reports, books and compendia informing on US public finances in the early nineteenth century. It investigates the debates put forward, from which comparisons with today's debt can be drawn.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040238386
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
This volume assembles a broad selection of rare primary resource materials in the form of essays, reports, books and compendia informing on US public finances in the early nineteenth century. It investigates the debates put forward, from which comparisons with today's debt can be drawn.
The US National Debt, 1787-1900 Vol 4
Author: Robert E Wright
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040243517
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
This volume covers the latter half of the nineteenth century and concepts such as inflation, the international market for bonds, and the complicated structure of the post-war public debt. It focuses on the varying state of the market and possible changes in the public debt's structure.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040243517
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
This volume covers the latter half of the nineteenth century and concepts such as inflation, the international market for bonds, and the complicated structure of the post-war public debt. It focuses on the varying state of the market and possible changes in the public debt's structure.
The US National Debt, 1787-1900 Vol 3
Author: Robert E Wright
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040236359
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
This volume assembles a broad selection of rare primary resource materials in the form of essays, reports, books and compendia informing on US public finances in the first half of the nineteenth century. It investigates the debates put forward, from which comparisons with today's debt can be drawn.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040236359
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
This volume assembles a broad selection of rare primary resource materials in the form of essays, reports, books and compendia informing on US public finances in the first half of the nineteenth century. It investigates the debates put forward, from which comparisons with today's debt can be drawn.
The Pricing of Progress
Author: Eli Cook
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674982541
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
How did Americans come to quantify their society’s progress and well-being in units of money? In today’s GDP-run world, prices are the standard measure of not only our goods and commodities but our environment, our communities, our nation, even our self-worth. The Pricing of Progress traces the long history of how and why we moderns adopted the monetizing values and valuations of capitalism as an indicator of human prosperity while losing sight of earlier social and moral metrics that did not put a price on everyday life. Eli Cook roots the rise of economic indicators in the emergence of modern capitalism and the contested history of English enclosure, Caribbean slavery, American industrialization, economic thought, and corporate power. He explores how the maximization of market production became the chief objective of American economic and social policy. We see how distinctly capitalist quantification techniques used to manage or invest in railroad corporations, textile factories, real estate holdings, or cotton plantations escaped the confines of the business world and seeped into every nook and cranny of society. As economic elites quantified the nation as a for-profit, capitalized investment, the progress of its inhabitants, free or enslaved, came to be valued according to their moneymaking abilities. Today as in the nineteenth century, political struggles rage over who gets to determine the statistical yardsticks used to gauge the “health” of our economy and nation. The Pricing of Progress helps us grasp the limits and dangers of entrusting economic indicators to measure social welfare and moral goals.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674982541
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
How did Americans come to quantify their society’s progress and well-being in units of money? In today’s GDP-run world, prices are the standard measure of not only our goods and commodities but our environment, our communities, our nation, even our self-worth. The Pricing of Progress traces the long history of how and why we moderns adopted the monetizing values and valuations of capitalism as an indicator of human prosperity while losing sight of earlier social and moral metrics that did not put a price on everyday life. Eli Cook roots the rise of economic indicators in the emergence of modern capitalism and the contested history of English enclosure, Caribbean slavery, American industrialization, economic thought, and corporate power. He explores how the maximization of market production became the chief objective of American economic and social policy. We see how distinctly capitalist quantification techniques used to manage or invest in railroad corporations, textile factories, real estate holdings, or cotton plantations escaped the confines of the business world and seeped into every nook and cranny of society. As economic elites quantified the nation as a for-profit, capitalized investment, the progress of its inhabitants, free or enslaved, came to be valued according to their moneymaking abilities. Today as in the nineteenth century, political struggles rage over who gets to determine the statistical yardsticks used to gauge the “health” of our economy and nation. The Pricing of Progress helps us grasp the limits and dangers of entrusting economic indicators to measure social welfare and moral goals.
Is U. S. Government Debt Different?
Author: Donald S. Bernstein
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983646990
Category : Debts, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983646990
Category : Debts, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Pages : 672
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Author: Michigan State Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 910
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Pages : 910
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Author: Michigan State University. Library
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Pages : 398
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Pages : 398
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Brief History of the Gold Standard (GS) in the United States
Author: Craig K. Elwell
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 143798889X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
The U.S. monetary system is based on paper money backed by the full faith and credit of the fed. gov't. The currency is neither valued in, backed by, nor officially convertible into gold or silver. Through much of its history, however, the U.S. was on a metallic standard of one sort or another. On occasion, there are calls to return to such a system. Such calls are usually accompanied by claims that gold or silver backing has provided considerable economic benefits in the past. This report reviews the history of the GS in the U.S. It clarifies the dates during which the GS was used, the type of GS in operation at the various times, and the statutory changes used to alter the GS and eventually end it. It is not a discussion of the merits of the GS. A print on demand oub.
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 143798889X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
The U.S. monetary system is based on paper money backed by the full faith and credit of the fed. gov't. The currency is neither valued in, backed by, nor officially convertible into gold or silver. Through much of its history, however, the U.S. was on a metallic standard of one sort or another. On occasion, there are calls to return to such a system. Such calls are usually accompanied by claims that gold or silver backing has provided considerable economic benefits in the past. This report reviews the history of the GS in the U.S. It clarifies the dates during which the GS was used, the type of GS in operation at the various times, and the statutory changes used to alter the GS and eventually end it. It is not a discussion of the merits of the GS. A print on demand oub.