Journal Article10.2307/1963996
The state and economic knowledge : the American and British experiences
Mary O. Furner,Barry Supple +1 more
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TL;DR: Lacey and Winter as mentioned in this paper discuss the use of economic knowledge in the United States and Britain and compare the two countries in terms of economic performance and economic knowledge and government in Britain.
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Abstract: 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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