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100 1  Higgs, Robert. 
245 10 Crisis and leviathan :|bcritical episodes in the growth of
       American government /|cRobert Higgs. 
264  1 New York :|bOxford University Press,|c1987. 
300    xix, 350 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "A Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy book." 
500    Includes index. 
504    Bibliography: pages 325-339. 
505 0  I. Framework : 1. Sources of big government: a critical 
       survey of hypotheses : Explanation of the growth of 
       government : Modernization ; Public goods ; The welfare 
       state ; Political redistribution ; Ideology ; Crisis -- 2.
       How much has government grown? Conventional measures and 
       alternative view : Conventional measures of the growth of 
       government ; The essence of big government: an alternative
       view ; Ratchets: conventional measures versus fundamentals
       -- 3. On ideology as an analytical concept in the study of
       political economy : What is ideology? ; Ideology and 
       political action ; Ideology in analysis ; Ideology in 
       rhetoric ; Ideology: exogenous and endogenous? -- 4. 
       Crisis, bigger government, and ideological change: toward 
       an understanding of the ratchet : A schematic view of the 
       problem ; Why stage II? A cost-concealment hypothesis ; 
       Why stage IV? A (partial) hypothesis on ideological change
       ; Recapitulation: why the ratchet? ; The task ahead -- II.
       History : 5. Crisis under the old regime, 1893-1896 : 
       Creative destruction ideologically sustained, 1865-1893 ; 
       Depression and social unrest, 1893-1896 ; Saving the gold 
       standard ; Maintaining law and order in the labor market ;
       Striking down the income tax -- 6. The progressive era: a 
       bridge to modern times : Economic development and 
       political change, 1898-1916 ; The ideological winds shift 
       ; End and beginning: the railroad labor troubles, 1916-
       1917 -- 7. The political economy of war, 1916-1918 ; 
       Neutral prosperity and the shipping crisis ; The 
       preparedness controversy and new governmental powers ; War
       and conscription ; Manipulating the market economy: the 
       major agencies ; Labor problems and the railroad takeover 
       ; Supreme court rulings on war measures ; Legacies, 
       institutional and ideological -- 8. The Great Depression :
       "an emergency more serious than war" : Economic rise and 
       fall, 1922-1933 ; What did Hoover do? ; Interregnum of 
       despair ; Emergency, emergency! ; Planting the first new 
       deal: the hundred days ; Cultivating and pruning the first
       new deal: the supreme court ; Legacies, institutional and 
       ideological -- 9. The political economy of war, 1940-1945 
       : De jure neutrality, de facto belligerency, 1939-1941 ; 
       More powers and price controls ; The armed forces and the 
       economy ; Work or fight ; The supreme court also goes to 
       war ; Legacies, institutional and ideological -- 10. 
       Crisis and leviathan: from World War II to the 1980s : The
       mixed economy: march into socialism or fascism? ; Crisis 
       and leviathan: the recent episodes -- 11. Retrospect and 
       prospect.  
650  0 Administrative agencies|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Bureaucracy|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Welfare state|xHistory. 
651  0 United States|xPolitics and government|y19th century. 
651  0 United States|xPolitics and government|y20th century. 
898    qbibliographies 
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