The Great Enrichment
A New History of American Growth and Inequality, 1865–1945
The Great Enrichment
A New History of American Growth and Inequality, 1865–1945
224 pages | 12 halftones, 3 line drawings, 17 tables | 6 x 9
Markets and Governments in Economic History
Economics and Business: Business--Industry and Labor, Economics--History
History: American History
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Usual Story and the Dissent
Chapter 3. From Cheap to Cheaper: America as the Best Poor Man’s Country
Chapter 4. Counting the Missing Poor: Health Leveling and Census Under-Enumeration
Chapter 5. Lifetime Earnings
Chapter 6. Immigration and Composition Bias
Chapter 7. When Tax Dodging Was Everyman’s Business
Chapter 8. The Lean and Mean Egalitarian Growth Machine from 1870 to 1910
Chapter 9. As Conclusion: The Great Deviation of the Wars and the Interwar Period
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index