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...

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 --...

Intro -- MILL GIRLS AND STRANGERS -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Transitions in the City: Independent Female Migration, 1850-1881 -- Single Female Migrants in Historical Perspectives -- 2. Preston: The Unseen Migrants -- Migrants and Domestic Service in Preston -- The...

Intro -- Theories of International Cooperation and the Primacy of Anarchy -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Glossary of Abbreviations -- 1. Explaining International Cooperation -- THE "NEW" INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION -- PRIOR PERIODS OF LIBERAL COGENCY -- CONSTRUCTIVISM IN AN ERA OF...

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...