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Measuring America : how economic growth came to define American greatness in the late twentieth century /
The United States has always fancied itself a nation apart--"Exceptional" in its values, traditions, and way of life. For most of the country's history, ideas about what made America distinctive generally were framed in terms of a liberal idealism rooted in the thought of John Locke a...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
©2010.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The economics profession and the changing discourse
- Economists come to Washington
- Business's new paradigm, "people's capitalism"
- The big postwar story
- Defining the new America for the world
- Beyond civics and the 3 R's
- A flawed measure: critics and realities
- Measuring America in the twenty-first century.