Activist State: The Myth of Laissez-Faire Economics in American History, Part I


the United States governments' claim to intervention in economic affairs, even in the name of laissez-faire ideology, quite paradoxically. The second half of American history will prove even more an incongruity to this so-called principle than the first.

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References

1"What George W. Bush Believes: An Interview with the Presidential Hopeful," Red Herring, December 1999

2See James Madison, Federalist Papers #10

3See "Tariff protection and Production in the Early U.S. Cotton Textile Industry," Journal of Economic History, December 1984

4Donald Dale Jackson. Twenty Million Yankees: The Northern Homefront (Alexandria, VA, 1985); Also see Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States, 4th ed. (New York, 1999)

5See Prascilla Morolo and A.B. Chitty, From Those Who Brought You the Weekend (New York, 2002); See also James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom (New York, 1988); Zinn, A People's History of the United States

6Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution (New York, 2002), p. 467

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