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America’s prosperous economy. What is this simple lesson? In successful economies, economic policy has been pragmatic, not ideological. And so it has been in the United the United States again and again enacted policies to shift its economy onto a new growth direction. ... These redirections have been big. And they have been collective
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was adopted, political groups have sought to yoke the free market to a program of economic nationalism and governmentally directed growth. Alexander Hamilton, Henry Clay, and Abraham Lincoln rank as major names in
[Reprinted from The Austrian (September – October 2016).] Concrete Economics: The Hamilton Approach to EconomicGrowth and Policy Stephen S. Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong Harvard Business Press
A Student’s Guide to Economic History Mises Review 10, No. 3 (Fall 2004) HOW CAPITALISM SAVED AMERICA: THE the free market to a program of economic nationalism and governmentally directed growth. Alexander Hamilton, Henry Clay, and Abraham Lincoln rank as major names in
America, and Africa can do so as well? Brimelow thinks not: he fears that the growth of racial enclaves will polarize the United States into what an earlier writer position, to use Derek Parfit’s term in his Reasons and Persons . But what of the economic advantages of immigration? Does not free movement across borders promote the
Roman Republic. Higgs, Robert. Depression, War, and Cold War . Shows the enormous economic costs of the Cold War. Kolko, Gabriel and Joyce Kolko. The Limits of Power: the National Security State . The advent of nuclear weapons has resulted in a vast growth in presidential power. Wilson, Edmund. The Cold War and the Income Tax: A
revolution.” Developments in science and technology, along with the attendant growth of large corporations, have in the 20th century made old-fashioned capitalism, who, he shows, are not allies of the Right, but its enemies. Those whose economics has been shaped by the Austrian School will not look with complete favor on thesis of managerial dominance, if so inclined, while remaining true to Austrian economics. To do this, all one need do is drop the assumption that technological
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