MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2009011485
003 DLC
005 20100128152758.0
008 090323r20092006caua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009011485
020 $a9781598130294 (alk. paper)
020 $a1598130293 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
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050 00 $aHC106$b.H535 2009
082 00 $a330.973/092$222
100 1 $aHiggs, Robert.
245 10 $aDepression, war, and cold war :$bchallenging the myths of conflict and prosperity /$cRobert Higgs.
260 $aOakland, CA :$bIndependent Institute,$cc2009.
300 $axv, 286 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
500 $aOriginally published: Oakland, CA : Independent Institute, c2006.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aRegime uncertainty why the Great Depression lasted so long and why prosperity resumed after the war -- Private profit, public risk institutional antecedents of the modern military procurement system in the rearmament program of 1940-41 -- Wartime prosperity? : a reassessment of the U.S. economy in the 1940s -- Wartime socialization of investment -- A reassessment of U.S. capital formation in the 1940s -- From central planning to the market the American transition, 1945-7 -- The cold war economy opportunity costs, ideology, and the politics of crisis -- Hard coals make bad law -- Airplanes the Pentagon didn't want, but Congress did -- Profits of U.S. defense contractors -- Public opinion.
651 0 $aUnited States$xEconomic conditions$y20th century.
650 0 $aWar$xEconomic aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aDepressions$y1929$zUnited States.