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At its peak in 1919 gross farm income touched seventeen bil- lion dollars ; the course of farm prices was outright inflationary - they more than doubled between 1914 and 1920 ; and land values rose in those six years as much and twice ...
At its peak in 1919 gross farm income touched seventeen bil- lion dollars ; the course of farm prices was outright inflationary - they more than doubled between 1914 and 1920 ; and land values rose in those six years as much and twice ...
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On the domestic scene where , of course , there was more freedom of action , the government had never remained completely idle in the face of the paradox of want amid plenty . The very real danger that the unemployed would starve and ...
On the domestic scene where , of course , there was more freedom of action , the government had never remained completely idle in the face of the paradox of want amid plenty . The very real danger that the unemployed would starve and ...
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Since neither this conviction nor anything said or done seems able to stay the course of governmental intervention , those who oppose it often fall into a mood of helplessness about the present or gloom concerning the future .
Since neither this conviction nor anything said or done seems able to stay the course of governmental intervention , those who oppose it often fall into a mood of helplessness about the present or gloom concerning the future .
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Contents
I | 2 |
PHILOSOPHERS OF LAISSEZ FAIRE | 7 |
Attitudes during the Progressive Era | 13 |
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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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