A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present—and argues that we’ve reached a turning point that will define the era ahead. “A monumental achievement, sure to become a ...

The book describes the collapse of American capitalism in the early 1930s, and the subsequent remaking of the US economy during Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency.

Information of the Great Depression including analysis, biographical profiles, documents and current resources.

Indeed, the 2004 presidential campaign has brought frequent calls to re-regulate the American economy. But the anticapitalist arguments are pure bunk, as Thomas J. DiLorenzo reveals in How Capitalism Saved America.

This book argues that the period from World War I to the Great Depression was an incubating era when innovative and lasting policy paradigms emerged.

This book provides a comprehensive political, economic, and historical analysis of the events and circumstances from the 1920s to 2010 that impacted the rise of today's "Global Capitalist Crises," Global Economic Crises, and the U.S.'s ...

Details a pattern of development and investment in the American economy that produces diminished growth and increased stagnation.

On the whole, however, these essays offer testimony to the Depression's legacy as a "defining moment.

A former Michigan congressman and member of the Reagan administration describes how interference in the financial markets has contributed to the national debt and has damaging and lasting repercussions.