In contemporary American political discourse, issues related to the scope, authority, and the cost of the federal government are perennially at the center of discussion. Any historical analysis of this topic points directly to the Great Depression, the "moment" to which most historians and...

How has the United States government grown? What political and economic factors have given rise to its regulation of the economy? These eight case studies explore the late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century origins of government intervention in the United States economy, focusing on the...

The research reported in this volume represents the second stage of a wide-ranging National Bureau of Economic Research effort to investigate ""The Changing Role of Debt and Equity in Financing U.S. Capital Formation."" The first group of studies sponsored under this project, which have been...