Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Paperback Edition: Uncreative Destruction -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. ART, CULTURE, AND NEW YORK CITY -- Chapter 2. HOW IT ALL BEGAN: From the Rise of the Factory to the Rise of Bling -- Chapter 3. BECOMING CREATIVE -- Chapter 4. THE...

A "people's war" and the dawn an "American century" -- Containing communism, advancing "the American system" -- Affluence and angst : the politics and culture of Cold War America -- Through the looking glass : discontent and rebellion in the fifties -- Let us begin : the promise of the early...

From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. Competition in the Promised Land provides a comprehensive account of the long-lasting effects of the influx of black workers on labor markets and urban...

This volume includes a series of papers which examine the contributions of entrepreneurship education on the performance of graduates. Using survey data for 2,484 entrepreneurship and non-entrepreneurship graduates, the analysis indicates that entrepreneurship education contributes to risk...

Henry C. Carey : first American economist -- The English classical school in the United States -- Epigones -- Economic thought in the south -- The new life in American economics -- Introductory -- Francis A. Walker -- Two philosophical economists : Simon N. Patten and John Bates Clark --...