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Hardback. New. In Depression, War, and Cold War, economic historian and political economist Robert Higgs recasts our view of the relations between the federal government and the economy from the New Deal era to the end of the Cold War, presenting new evidence, new statistical analyses, and new interpretations of familiar data. The result is a strikingly altered panorama of recent U.S. history. ISBN 0195182928 9780195182927 [GB]

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Institute. New. Hardcover. 0195182928 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, like new, pristine, never opened -- 226 pages. Description: " 'Depression, War, and Cold War' is the product of a decade or more of research into some of the most vexing issues of the last century and our own times. He [Higgs] confronts them directly: Why did the great depression last so long? How prosperous was the US economy in the 1940s? Why did prosperity resume after the war? What happened to capital formation in a time of wartime planning? How did it happen that the US crawled out of wartime central planning by 1947? What were the true costs of the Cold War? How was the Higgsian notion of crisis used as an excuse for power during the Cold War? To what extent is the US corporate sector subsidized by the warfare state? How is public opinion related to US military spending? What happens when Congress wants to build weapons that the military doesn't want? If you have ever wondered how much of the official story of the last fifty years is correct, Higgs makes it clear: your worst suspicions are correct. The official statistics are little more than fiction. The level of corruption in the warfare state is egregious. The liberty and property taken from you in the name of 'security' is just as objectionable as that taken in the name of ...