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The Progressive Era

by Murray N. Rothbard

Mises Institute, 2017602 pages

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Author
Murray N. Rothbard
First published
2017
Format
PDF and EPUB
Pages
602
Publisher
Mises Institute
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0

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The Progressive Era ushered the modern American politico-economic system into being.

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Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was an American economist, economic historian, and libertarian political philosopher, and perhaps Ludwig von Mises’s most important American student, attending Mises’s NYU seminar in the 1950s. He earned a B.A. This archive holds 95 of Rothbard's works.

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  1. Front Matter
  2. Foreword by Andrew P. Napolitano
  3. Introduction by Patrick Newman
  4. Preface
  5. CHAPTER 1 Railroads: The First Big Business and the Failure of the Cartels 1. Subsidizing the Railroads
  6. CHAPTER 2 Regulating the Railroads 1. The Drive for Regulation
  7. CHAPTER 3 Attempts at Monopoly in American Industry 1. America’s Industrial Revolution
  8. CHAPTER 4 The Third Party System: Pietists vs. Liturgicals
  9. CHAPTER 5 The Democratic Triumph of 1892 1. The Road to Democratic Triumph
  10. CHAPTER 6 1896: The Collapse of the Third Party System and of Laissez-faire Politics 1. The First Collapse: 1894
  11. CHAPTER 7 Theodore Roosevelt: The First Progressive, Part I 1. Financial Influence on Political Parties
  12. CHAPTER 8 Theodore Roosevelt: The First Progressive, Part II 1. The Meat Packing Myth
  13. CHAPTER 9 The National Civic Federation: Big Business Organized for Progressivism
  14. CHAPTER 10 The Progressive Era and the Family
  15. CHAPTER 11 Origins of the Welfare State in America
  16. CHAPTER 12 War Collectivism in World War I
  17. 1. Introduction
  18. 2. Pietism and Prohibition
  19. 3. Women at War and at the Polls
  20. 4. Saving Our Boys from Alcohol and Vice
  21. 5. The New Republic Collectivists
  22. 6. Economics in Service of the State: The Empiricism of Richard T. Ely
  23. 7. Economics in Service of the State: Government and Statistics
  24. Appendix Toward the Centralization of Science: The National Research Council[110]
  25. CHAPTER 14 The Federal Reserve as a Cartelization Device: The Early Years, 1913–1930
  26. 1. The Origins of the Federal Reserve: The Dissatisfaction of New York Bankers
  27. 2. The Road to the Federal Reserve[8]
  28. 3. The Structure of the Federal Reserve
  29. 4. The Personnel of the Federal Reserve
  30. 5. The Federal Reserve and World War I
  31. 6. Internationalizing the Cartel
  32. 7. Britain and the Gold Exchange Standard
  33. 8. Open-Market Purchases in the 1920s
  34. 9. Creating the Acceptance Market
  35. 10. From Boom to Depression
  36. 11. Summary
  37. CHAPTER 15 Herbert Hoover and the Myth of Laissez-Faire 1. Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce
  38. Bibliography
  39. Index of Names
  40. Index of Subjects
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Murray N. Rothbard 1926–1995

Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was an American economist, economic historian, and libertarian political philosopher, and perhaps Ludwig von Mises’s most important American student, attending Mises’s NYU seminar in the 1950s. Read more about Murray N. Rothbard.

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