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The State and Economic Knowledge

The State and Economic Knowledge
The American and British Experiences

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Michael J. Lacey, Mary O. Furner, Barry Supple, Donald Winch, John Lauritz Larson, William J. Barber, Robert M. Collins, Peter Clarke, George C. Peden, Ellis W. Hawley, Leslie Hannah, Jose Harris, W. Elliot Brownlee, Jay M. Winter
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  • Date Published: August 2002
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521523158

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  • This book addresses an important but inadequately recognized dimension of the activities of the modern state - the role it plays in producing the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary for economic policy-making. The traditional assumption, which this collection of essays challenges, is that despite this profound dependence governments have generally acted as passive consumers of whatever ideas economists in the private sector and professions had to offer. This book brings together papers from an Anglo-American conference, held at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, that reveal the ways in which modern states have helped to generate new economic changes, specific political institutions, and ideological contexts. The approach is comparative, focusing on developments in modern Great Britain and the United States.

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    • Date Published: August 2002
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521523158
    • length: 492 pages
    • dimensions: 229 x 152 x 28 mm
    • weight: 0.72kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Foreword Michael J. Lacey
    Part I. The State and the Uses of Economic Knowledge:
    1. Ideas, institutions, and state in the United States and Britain: an introduction Mary O. Furner and Barry Supple
    2. Economic knowledge and government in Britain: some historical and comparative reflections Donald Winch
    Part II. The State and Economic Performance:
    3. Liberty by design: freedom, planning, and John Quincy Adams's American system John Lauritz Larson
    4. Government as a laboratory for economic learning in the years of the Democratic Roosevelt William J. Barber
    5. The emergence of economic growthmanship in the United States: federal policy and economic knowledge in the Truman years Robert M. Collins
    6. The treasury's analytical model of the British economy between the wars Peter Clarke
    7. Old dogs and new tricks: the British treasury and Keynesian economics in the 1940s and 1950s George C. Peden
    Part III. Industrial Maturity and Economic Policy:
    8. Knowing capitalism: public investigation and the labor question in the long progressive era Mary O. Furner
    9. Economic inquiry and the state in new era America: antistatist corporatism and positive statism in uneasy coexistence Ellis W. Hawley
    10. Official economic inquiry and Britain's industrial decline: the first fifty years Barry Supple
    11. Economic ideas and government policy on industrial organization in Britain since 1945 Leslie Hannah
    Part IV. Economic Knowledge and Social Action:
    12. Economic knowledge and British social policy Jose Harris
    13. Economists and the formation of the modern tax system in the United States: the World War I crisis W. Elliot Brownlee
    14. Population, economists, and the state: the royal commission of population, 1944–9 Jay M. Winter
    About the authors
    Index.

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    Mary O. Furner, Northern Illinois University

    Barry Supple, University of Cambridge

    Contributors

    Michael J. Lacey, Mary O. Furner, Barry Supple, Donald Winch, John Lauritz Larson, William J. Barber, Robert M. Collins, Peter Clarke, George C. Peden, Ellis W. Hawley, Leslie Hannah, Jose Harris, W. Elliot Brownlee, Jay M. Winter

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