The Price of Progress: Public Services, Taxation, and the American Corporate State, 1877 to 1929

by R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson

Between the Civil War and the Great Depression, twin revolutions swept through American business and government. In business, large corporations came to dominate entire sectors and markets. In government, new services and agencies, especially at the city and state levels, sprang up to ameliorate a broad spectrum of social problems. In The Price of Progress, R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson offers a fresh analysis of therelationship between those...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801870542
• ISBN13: 9780801870545
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.4"