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Chapters

1. Front Matter991 words
2. Foreword by Andrew P. Napolitano1,493 words
3. Introduction by Patrick Newman8,575 words
4. Preface1,401 words
5. CHAPTER 1 Railroads: The First Big Business and the Failure of the Cartels 1. Subsidizing the Railroads10,922 words
6. CHAPTER 2 Regulating the Railroads 1. The Drive for Regulation9,125 words
7. CHAPTER 3 Attempts at Monopoly in American Industry 1. America’s Industrial Revolution6,723 words
8. CHAPTER 4 The Third Party System: Pietists vs. Liturgicals9,633 words
9. CHAPTER 5 The Democratic Triumph of 1892 1. The Road to Democratic Triumph10,440 words
10. CHAPTER 6 1896: The Collapse of the Third Party System and of Laissez-faire Politics 1. The First Collapse: 189413,687 words
11. CHAPTER 7 Theodore Roosevelt: The First Progressive, Part I 1. Financial Influence on Political Parties14,897 words
12. CHAPTER 8 Theodore Roosevelt: The First Progressive, Part II 1. The Meat Packing Myth14,727 words
13. CHAPTER 9 The National Civic Federation: Big Business Organized for Progressivism8,641 words
14. CHAPTER 10 The Progressive Era and the Family9,875 words
15. CHAPTER 11 Origins of the Welfare State in America15,792 words
16. CHAPTER 12 War Collectivism in World War I13,483 words
17. 1. Introduction871 words
18. 2. Pietism and Prohibition2,374 words
19. 3. Women at War and at the Polls2,004 words
20. 4. Saving Our Boys from Alcohol and Vice1,856 words
21. 5. The New Republic Collectivists2,619 words
22. 6. Economics in Service of the State: The Empiricism of Richard T. Ely2,515 words
23. 7. Economics in Service of the State: Government and Statistics5,015 words
24. Appendix Toward the Centralization of Science: The National Research Council[110]8,947 words
25. CHAPTER 14 The Federal Reserve as a Cartelization Device: The Early Years, 1913–1930556 words
26. 1. The Origins of the Federal Reserve: The Dissatisfaction of New York Bankers1,212 words
27. 2. The Road to the Federal Reserve[8]2,808 words
28. 3. The Structure of the Federal Reserve1,041 words
29. 4. The Personnel of the Federal Reserve1,495 words
30. 5. The Federal Reserve and World War I739 words
31. 6. Internationalizing the Cartel890 words
32. 7. Britain and the Gold Exchange Standard1,207 words
33. 8. Open-Market Purchases in the 1920s1,938 words
34. 9. Creating the Acceptance Market1,329 words
35. 10. From Boom to Depression2,104 words
36. 11. Summary5,301 words
37. CHAPTER 15 Herbert Hoover and the Myth of Laissez-Faire 1. Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce10,801 words
38. Bibliography7,829 words
39. Index of Names2,861 words
40. Index of Subjects4,996 words