Description: This bold re-examination of the history of U.S. economic growth is built around a novel claim, that productive capacity grew dramatically across the Depression years (1929-1941) and that this advance provided the foundation for the economic and military success of the United States during the Second World War as well as for the golden age (1948-1973) that followed. Alexander J. Field takes a fresh look at growth data and concludes that, behind a backdrop of double-digit unemployment, the 1930s actually experienced very high rates of technological and organizational innovation, fueled by the maturing of a privately funded research and development system and the government-funded build-out of the country's surface road infrastructure. This significant new volume in the Yale Series in Economic and Financial History invites new discussion of the causes and consequences of productivity growth over the last century and a half and on our current prospects.
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Book Title: A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth (
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Name: Great Leap Forward : 1930s Depression and U. S. Economic Growth
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Subject: Economic History, United States / 20th Century, Political Economy, Economic Conditions
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2012
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Alexander J. Field
Subject Area: Political Science, Business & Economics, History
Item Length: 0.9 in
Series: Yale Series in Economic and Financial History Ser.
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
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