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Beskrivning
A concise, accessible review of the principal economic developments and social changes in the US between 1945 and the present day.. Covers an era of US economic dominance and the challenge from overseas.. Links more 'historical' post-war developments to the rapid 'contemporary' changes of the 1970s-1990s.. No direct competitor known to the author.
Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow
Innehållsförteckning
American population since 1945; government since 1945; government and management of the economy; regional economic change since 1945; work in America since 1945; agriculture and rural America; mastery to uncertainty - corporate America, 1945-90; African-Americans and the Civil Rights Movement; incomes and consumption since 1945; US in the world economy; American productivity growth since 1945.