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Between 1870 and World War I Americans held the following diverse views of a competitive economy : ( a ) some would abolish the competitive system ; ( b ) others would reduce the factor of competition ; ( c ) a third group would use ...
Between 1870 and World War I Americans held the following diverse views of a competitive economy : ( a ) some would abolish the competitive system ; ( b ) others would reduce the factor of competition ; ( c ) a third group would use ...
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But we recognized that competition , as such , was not inherently vir- tuous ; that competition ( when it was ... Its fundamental purpose was an effort to modify the characteristics of a chaotic competitive system that could and ...
But we recognized that competition , as such , was not inherently vir- tuous ; that competition ( when it was ... Its fundamental purpose was an effort to modify the characteristics of a chaotic competitive system that could and ...
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When prices are privately managed at levels above those which would be determined by free competition , everybody pays . ... Even the Government itself is unable , in a large range of materials , to obtain competitive bids .
When prices are privately managed at levels above those which would be determined by free competition , everybody pays . ... Even the Government itself is unable , in a large range of materials , to obtain competitive bids .
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Contents
I | 2 |
PHILOSOPHERS OF LAISSEZ FAIRE | 7 |
Attitudes during the Progressive Era | 13 |
Copyright | |
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| 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 |
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