American Capitalism, 1945-2000: Continuity and Change from Mass Production to the Information Society

by Wyatt Wells

Book Overview

The record of the American economy since 1945 offers an embarrassment of riches for the historian, and Wyatt Wells has brought them together in a compact and incisive history. His theme is how greatly many economic circumstances changed--and how many other features remained essentially the same. He shows how throughout the period the United States enjoyed not only the world's largest economy but by most measures its most diverse and sophisticated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566635373
• ISBN13: 9781566635370
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 3.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.6"