Second thoughts : myths and morals of U.S. economic history /
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1993.
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Table des matières:
- Introduction : looking forward into history / Donald N. McCloskey
- How tough are times in the Third World? / Jeffrey G. Williamson
- Do we really need all these immigrants? / Julian L. Simon and Rita James Simon
- Do imperial powers get rich off their colonies? / Lance E. Davis and Robert A. Huttenback
- How military mobilization hurts the economy / Robert Higgs
- Does workers' compensation make for a safer workplace? / Price V. Fishback
- American farming : if it's broke, why can't we fix it? / Lee J. Alston
- How can displaced workers find better jobs? / Elizabeth Hoffman
- What is the key to Black progress? / Robert A. Margo
- The Equal Rights Amendment : yes, but whose? / Elyce J. Rotella
- As good as gold : by what standard? / Barry Eichengreen
- Who's afraid of the big bad trade deficit? / Mark Thomas
- The Great Depression : can it happen again? / John Wallis. The income tax : an idea whose time has gone and come? / Benjamin Baack and Edward Ray
- Are government giveaways really free? / Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill
- Do Americans want big government? / Jonathan Hughes
- Should we reregulate the banks? / Richard Sylla
- Can price controls work? / Hugh Rockoff
- The Securities Exchange Commission : where from, where to? / Susan M. Phillips and J. Richard Zecher
- Fulton's folly / Gary M. Walton
- Down the primrose path / Peter Temin
- What really happened at Teapot Dome? / Gary Libecap
- Does government intervention in the economy hurt competitiveness, or help it? / Paul Uselding
- Competitiveness and the antieconomics of decline / Donald N. McCloskey
- Does science shape economic progress, or is it the other way around? / Nathan Rosenberg.