Select Problems in Historical Interpretation: Government and the American economy, 1870-present |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 76
Page 11
often there is friction between the employer and the employed , between capital and labor , between rich and poor . Human society loses homogeneity . The price which society pays for the law of competition , like the price it pays for ...
often there is friction between the employer and the employed , between capital and labor , between rich and poor . Human society loses homogeneity . The price which society pays for the law of competition , like the price it pays for ...
Page 24
The small capitalists , with their innumerable petty concerns , had in fact yielded the field to the great aggregations of capital , because they be- longed to a day of small things and were totally incompetent to the demands of an age ...
The small capitalists , with their innumerable petty concerns , had in fact yielded the field to the great aggregations of capital , because they be- longed to a day of small things and were totally incompetent to the demands of an age ...
Page 318
In the matter of what may be called fixed in- vestment capital , the disadvantage of the farmer so strongly impressed public opinion that a few years ago the Federal Farm Loan Board was es- tablished to afford better supplies of capital ...
In the matter of what may be called fixed in- vestment capital , the disadvantage of the farmer so strongly impressed public opinion that a few years ago the Federal Farm Loan Board was es- tablished to afford better supplies of capital ...
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Contents
I | 2 |
PHILOSOPHERS OF LAISSEZ FAIRE | 7 |
Attitudes during the Progressive Era | 13 |
Copyright | |
47 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action administration agricultural American amount asked authority believe Board called capital cars cent Cleveland coal combination commerce Commissioner committee common competition Congress conservation contract corporation cost course court deal demand direct economic effect employees fact farm farmers Federal force give hand important increase individual industry interests issue labor land less major manufacturers materials matter means ment nature necessary never operation organization party persons political possible practices present President Problem production profits protection Pullman question railroad reason received regulation relations representatives result road secure Senator Standard Oil steel strike supply thing tion trade trust union United wages whole workers
Bibliographic information
| Title | Select Problems in Historical Interpretation: Government and the American economy, 1870-present Volume 2 of Select Problems in Historical Interpretation, David Morris Potter |
| Authors | David Morris Potter, Thomas G. Manning |
| Publisher | Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1950 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 14 Dec 2006 |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |