This paper builds on a previous paper by the authors (Kornfeld and Fraumeni, 2022) that primarily used U.S. Federal Highway Administration Highway Statistics data to disaggregate investment in highways and streets into more detailed types to produce updated estimates of net wealth stocks and...

This book brings together for the first time more than half a dozen proposals, including several which have never been studied before, to show how thinkers on empire drew on monetary thought and banking theory to address the financial, political and constitutional challenges of empire in the...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. America and Middle Eastern Oil -- Part I: Oil and Transnational Terrorism -- 2. Explaining September 11: The Oil Factor -- 3. Rising Anti-Americanism in the Global Audience -- 4. Oil Money,...

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 special task of this book is to present a statistical and theoretical analysis of the relation between the quantity of money and other key economic magnitudes over periods longer than those dominated by cyclical fluctuations-hence the term trends in the title. This book is not restricted to...

Employment is closely connected to wealth, status, and security and is therefore a subject of interest across a range of academic disciplines. Employment Relations in the United States incorporates a wealth of research material from these different specialties to provide a historical perspective...

This book provides an in-depth description and analysis of monetary policy in Europe and the United States. Unusually for a volume in the field, it focuses on actual monetary policy - targets, institutions, strategies, and instruments - but traditional and contemporary theoretical approaches to...

Intro -- Mediating Globalization: Domestic Institutions and Industrial Policies in the United States and Britain -- Contents -- Part One The Argument -- 1. Globalization and Convergence? The Domestic Impact of Globalization -- 2. Globalization, Domestic Institutions, and Industrial Strategies --...