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A&P, 252–253, 425

Adams, Abigail, 59

Adams, Charles Francis, 157–158, 229

Adams, Henry, 180, 190–191

Adams, Henry Carter, 225

Adams, John, 30, 54, 76, 101

Adams, John Quincy, 54, 61, 92, 109, 113, 117

Adams Act (1906), 203

Addyston Pipe and Steel, 232

Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), 406, 420

advertising sector, 254

Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), 289, 293, 346

Agricultural Marketing Act, 276, 346

agriculture

government support of, 203–204

Great Depression and, 276

railroads and, 178–179

Aiken, Howard, 407, 411

airmail program, 206

Alabama, 124, 176

A. L. A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 293–295, 361

Alaska Highway, 315

Alcoa, 312, 349

Aldrich, Nelson W., 222–223

Alexander, Catherine, 41

Allen, Hervey, 71

Allen, Horatio, 93

Allen, Paul, 417

Allis-Chalmers, 404

Allison, Saul, 396

Almy, William, 85

Altgeld, John Peter, 172

Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, 172

American Appliance Company, 415

American Artillerists’ Companion (Tousard), 96

American Broadcasting Company (ABC), 207, 348

American Colonization Society, 57

American Construction Council, 258

American Economic Republic, The (Berle), 350

American Farm Bureau, 204

American Federation of Labor (AFL), 172, 298, 320–321

American Fur Trade Company, 72–73

American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act, 447

American Individualism (Hoover), 256

American Industry in the War (Baruch), 245

American International Group (AIG), 447

American Life, An (Reagan), 304

American Petroleum Institute, 334

American Railway Union, 173

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), 448

American republics, 5–12, 150, 336, 481. See also Next American Economy

American Research and Development (ARD), 418

American System, of Clay, 8, 16, 81, 104–108, 116–117, 140–141, 460

American system, of interchangeable manufacturing parts, 95–97

American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T), 250–251, 347–348, 437

Bell Labs and, 192

breakup of, 382–383

Morgan and, 220

RCA and NBC and, 207

American Tobacco, 217, 232–233

Amerika (Kafka), 169

Ames, Fisher, 113

Ames, Oakes, 155

Anderson, Martin, 359

Anderson, Robert O., 387

Andrew, A. Piatt, 222

Anglo-Iranian Oil, 333

Anglo-Persian Oil Company, 335

Anthony Adverse (Allen), 71

antitrust activism

conglomerates and, 365–366

mergers and, 213–233

progressivism and, 230–233

after World War II, 349

Antoine de St. Maxent, Gilbert, 319

A. O. Higgins Lumber and Export Company, 319

Apple Computer, Inc., 417

applied chemistry, nineteenth century innovation and, 202–203

Arab-American Oil Company, 335

Armour, Philip, 160

Arnold, H. H. “Hap,” 404

Arnold, Thurman, 299–300, 313–314

Arnold and Porter, 314

ARPANET, 413, 420

Articles of Confederation, 29–30

Ashley, William H., 74

Asian financial crisis, 429, 455

asset bubbles

from 1980–2008, 16, 47, 273, 388–390, 455–456, 467, 470

in canals and railroads, 119, 216

debt-driven, 12

in Japan, 429

in stocks, in 1929, 269

in tech stocks, in 2001, 12, 441

associationalism, of Hoover, 257–259, 289, 361

Astor, George, 68

Astor, Henry, 68

Astor, John Jacob, 49, 68–75

Astor, Vincent, 75

Astoria: Or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains (Irving), 69

“As We May Think” (V. Bush), 398–399, 419–421

Atanasoff, John V., 408

Atlanta Constitution, 180

Atlantic, 398, 399

Atlas Shrugged (Rand), 156

atomic bomb, 396–397, 402–404

Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 339

Augusta Powder Works, 134

Australia, 146, 432

banking system in, 166–167

economic growth of, 371

immigration and, 479–480

wages in, 290

World War I, 240

Austria, 270, 371

automobiles

demographic changes post–World War II and, 342

development of early, 200, 246–249

aviation industry

deregulation of, 382, 383

government support of, 204–206, 257

World War II, 318

Babbage, Charles, 401, 411

Backhouse, William, 68

Baekeland, Leo, 203

Bahrain, 335

Bakelite, 203

Baker, Dean, 448

Baker, George F., 232

Baker, James, 388–389

balanced budget. See deficit spending

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 92–93

Bankers’ Trust, 219

Bankhead-Jones Act (1935), 204

Banking Act (1935), 355

banking system. See also financial system

creation of national, 141–142

deregulation of, 385–386, 468–469

financial panics and, 165–166

fragmented nature of early, 166–167

megabanks in early twenty-first century, 434–435

public-investment banks proposed, 467–469

as public utility, 354–355

savings and loans and, 355, 363, 385

securitization and, 444–446

unit banks and, 116–167, 218–221, 229, 231, 254, 286

Bank of America, 254, 434, 447

Bank of England, 33

Bank of International Settlements (BIS), 264

Bank of New York, 41–42

Bank of North America, 27, 28, 29

Bank of Stephen Girard, 68, 70

Bank of the United States (first), 31, 36, 41, 70

Bank of the United States (second), 8–9, 47, 71

Clay and, 81, 108

Jackson and, 110, 111–117

Barkley, Alben, 302

Barnard, George, 157–158

Bartlett, Bruce, 391

Baruch, Bernard M., 241–242, 245, 312

Baruch, Hartwig, 242

Batchelor, Charles, 193

Bayer AG, 203

Bear Stearns, 434, 446, 447

Beatrice Foods, 366

Bechtel Corporation, 317

Beckwourth, Jim, 74

Belgium, 281–282

Bell, Alexander Graham, 204

Bell, Daniel W., 369

Bellamy, Edward, 179

Bell Labs, 192, 408, 414, 436–437

Belmont, August, 227

benefits. See employer-based benefits; social contract

Bennett, Harry, 261

Benton, Thomas Hart, 73, 116

Benton, William, 352

Benz, Karl, 191, 199

Berge, Wendell, 300

Berle, Adolf, 184, 213–214, 299, 302, 348, 350

Berlin, Irving, 325–326

Bernanke, Ben, 447

Bernays, Edward, 254

Berners-Lee, Tim, 419

Bessemer, Henry, 202

Bessemer steel process, 163, 202

bicycles, 200

Biddle, Nicholas, 71, 111–112, 114, 116, 117

Biddle, Thomas, 117

bimetallism, 37, 149, 183

birth control, 356

Bismarck, Otto von, 223, 237

Bituminous Coal Conservation Act, 346

Black, Hugo, 288

black codes, in South, 175–176

blacks, migration of, 260

Blackwood’s Magazine, 123

Blanc, Honoré, 96

Blanchard, Thomas, 96–97

Blankfein, Lloyd, 435

Blinder, Alan, 448

Blue Eagle. See National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)

Boehm, Ludwig, 193

Bohr, Neils, 401

Bomford, George, 96

Bonaparte, Joseph, 67

Bonaventura, Rose, 322

Bond, Phineas, 40

Bonneville Dam, 312, 318, 338–339

“Bonus Army,” 283

Bosch, Carl, 202

Boston Manufacturing Company, 86

Boston Tea Party, 21–22

Boulton, Matthew, 79

Bracero Program, 324, 358

Brandeis, Louis, 182, 299

New Freedom and, 10

NIRA and, 293–294

Progressivism and, 228–229, 232, 286

Brave New World (Huxley), 261

Brazil, 432, 459

Breadwinners, The (Hay), 180

Bretton Woods, 368–369, 457. See also gold standard

Bretton Woods II, 429–431

Bridger, Jim, 74

Briggs, Lyman, 403

Brin, Sergei, 420

Britain

atomic bomb and, 403

Civil War and, 132–134

free trade and, 145–146

immigration policies in, 479–480

initial manufacturing superiority, 83–85, 99–104

jet engines and, 405

manufacturing capacity, after World War I, 263

mercantilist policies and, 100

nineteenth century social reforms, 224

nineteenth century US economic rivalry with, 206

railroads and, 154

telegraph and, 159

World War I and, 240, 264

Broadus, James, 209

Brougham, Henry, 101

Brown, E. Carey, 305

Brown, George and Herman, 285

Brown, Moses, 85

Brown, Walter Folger, 206

Brown and Root, 285, 316

Brush, Charles F., 194

Brush Electric Company, 194

Bryan, William Jennings

gold standard and, 149

political economy of, 180–182

as presidential nominee, 166, 222

T. Roosevelt on, 228

Bryce, James, 411

Buchanan, James, 149, 155

“Buckeye Bimetallism,” 149

Buckingham, J. S., 125

Budd, Alan, 386

Buffett, Warren, 443

buna rubber, 312–313

Burke, Edmund, 23–24

Burnham, James, 350, 351

Burr, Aaron, 42

Bush, George, H. W., 418

Bush, George W., 363, 448, 450, 457

Bush, Vannevar, 255, 397–398, 415, 416, 419, 462

biography, 400–402

information technology and, 399–400

jet engine and, 404–405

nuclear power and, 396–397

space program and, 406

Business Advisory Council (BAC), 301

Caesar’s Column (Donnelly), 179

Cain, Louis P., 361

Calhoun, John C., 43, 108, 110

California, 318

California Rural Legal Assistance program (CRL), 358

Camden and Amboy Railroad, 91–92

Cameron, William J., 248

Campbell, George W., 71

Canada

banking system in, 166–167

economic growth of, 371

immigration and, 479–480

import substitution and, 146

World War I, 240

capitalism

developmental capitalism, 12–13, 15–17, 182, 224, 460

finance capitalism’s transition to managerial capitalism, 349–351

financial-market capitalism, 364, 436–440

welfare capitalism, 86, 260–261, 441

capital of United States, compromises about location of, 34

Cardozo, Benjamin, 229, 299

Carey, Henry C., 104–105, 144–145, 147, 148–149

Carey, Mathew, 104

Carnegie, Andrew, 13, 162–163, 173, 220, 227

Carnegie Steel, 220

Carroll, Charles, 92

Carson, Kit, 74

cartels, 215–216, 258–259. See also mergers

Edison and, 251

government-sponsored, 346–347, 361–362

oil industry, 161, 333–335

railroad, 154, 161

telegraph industry, 161

before World War I, 16

in World War II, 309

Carter, Jimmy, 11, 368, 457

dismantling of New Deal regulations, 362, 375, 380–381, 383, 390–391

catalytic cracking, 315

Catchings, Waddill, 273

CBS, 348

Cellar-Kefauver Act (1950), 349, 365

Central Pacific Railroad, 146, 151–153, 156

Central Valley Water Project, 338

Chamberlain, John, 352

Chandler, Alfred D. Jr., 221

Chaplin, Charlie, 261

Chapters of Erie (Adams), 157–158

Charles River Bridge case, 216

Chase, Salmon P., 138, 141, 165

Chase, Stuart, 277

Chavez, Cesar, 358

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 55–56, 59, 92–93

Cheves, Langdon, 71, 112

Chevron, 335

Chicago Rapid Transit Company (CRT), 250

Chicago School, 378

child and child-care tax credits, 442

Chile, 432

China

early trade with, 63–67, 68

economic growth of, 458–459

England and, 100

globalization and current-account deficits, 423, 428–433, 457–458

support of low-end industries, 86

Walmart and, 426

Choate, Rufus, 201

Christy, David, 126

Chrysler, 353–354, 448

Chungju Fertilizer Company, 374

Churchill, Winston, 288, 290

Cisternay du Fay, Charles-François, 190

Citibank, 434

Citigroup, 386, 437

Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), 346–347, 383

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 304

Civil Rights Act (1964), 357

civil rights era, 357–358

Civil War

CSA’s constitution and, 130–131

CSA’s reliance on agriculture and shunning of manufacturing, 8, 130–131, 132–134, 464

financing of, 134, 137–139, 145

gold-backed currency and repayment of debts of, 148–149

human costs of, 139

income tax and, 231

origins of, 81–82, 93, 127–128, 129–130

South’s shrunken wealth after, 174–175

technological innovation during, 135–137

telegraph and, 159

Clark, John Bates, 213, 215

Clark, Tom, 300

Clarke, Chapman and Co., 198

Clay, Henry, 47, 57

American System of, 8, 16, 81, 104–108, 116–117, 140–141, 460

Compromise Bill of 1832 and, 109

Compromise of 1850 and, 127

Jackson and, 109, 111, 114, 115

tariffs and, 144

Clay, John, 140–141

Clayton Act (1914), 173, 230, 365

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain), 210, 233

Clermont (manor house), 61

Clermont (steamboat), 88

Cleveland, Grover, 168, 173, 180, 221–222

Clinton, DeWitt, 53–55, 88

Club of Rome, 379

coal

coal gas used as fuel, 199

electricity generation and, 199, 339

mining of, 94–95

railroads and, 92–93

Cobden, Robert, 100–101

Cockcroft, John, 403

Code Savary, 32

Coffin, Howard E., 241

Cohen, Benjamin, 285

Coin’s Financial School (Harvey), 179

Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, 32

Cold War, free trade concessions during, 331–332, 368–376, 456–457

Collins, Thomas, 89–90

Colt, John, 3

Colt, Peter, 2

Colt, Samuel, 3, 97, 98

Commerce Clause, in US Constitution, 88

Committee for Economic Development (CED), 352

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), 435

Commons, John R., 227

Commonwealth Edison Company, 249

Communications Satellite Corporation (Comsat), 406

Competitive Equality Banking Act (1987), 386

Compromise of 1850, 127–128

Compromise of 1877, 174

Compton, Arthur, 404

computers, evolution of, 11, 407–409

Computer Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR), 410

Conant, James, 396

Confederate States of America (CSA)

constitution’s weaknesses, 130–131

reliance on agriculture and shunning of manufacturing, 8, 130–131, 132–134, 464

conglomerates, 365–366, 436

Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 298, 321

Connally, John, 376

Connally, Tom, 334

Connally Hot Oil Act, 334

Constitution, of United States

Commerce Clause, 88

preamble contrasted to CSA’s, 131

Sixteenth Amendment, 138, 231

Washington and Constitutional Convention, 30

consumer credit, growth after World War I, 254

container ships, 424–425

Cooke, Henry, 138

Cooke, Jay, 138–139, 193

Coolidge, Calvin, 255, 266

Cooper, Peter, 93

Cooper, Richard, 271

Cooper, Thomas, 112–113

Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export, 331

Corcoran, Tommy “the Cork,” 285, 293, 299

Corn Laws, in Britain, 100

Coronet magazine, 400

corporations. See also employer-based benefits

federal incorporation laws, 227–228

mergers in late nineteenth century, 213–233

Corresca, Rocco, 169

Corwin, Abel, 158

cotton, 7–8, 122–123

CSA’s reliance on, 132–134

cotton gin, 123

Cotton Is King; or, Slavery in the Light of Political Economy (Christy), 126

Coulomb, Charles Augustin de, 190

Countrywide Financial, 434, 447

Cox, Christopher, 447

Cox, Father James, 283

Coxe, Tench, 38, 39, 41, 43

creative destruction, 224

Creditanstalt, 270

Credit Mobilier, 143, 155–156

Croly, Herbert, 225

Crooks, Ramsay, 73

crop-lien system, in post–Civil War South, 175–176

CSS Virginia, 137

Cunard, Samuel, 90

currency issues. See also trade

bimetallism, 37, 149, 183

late twentieth century manipulation of, 429–431

Legal Tender Act and creation of national, 141–142

Next American economy and dollar’s status as reserve currency, 459

Reconstruction and return to gold standard, 148–149

current-account deficits

in 1970s, 376

in 1980s, 388–390

China and, 423, 428–433

Japan and, 371–373

maldistribution of income in early twentieth century and, 262–266

Currie, Lauchlin, 302–303

curtain-wall construction, of buildings, 209–210

Curtiss-Wright Corporation, 4

Czech Republic, 37

Czolgosz, Leon, 183

Daimler, Gottlieb, 191, 199

Dallas, Alexander, 71

dams, 275, 276, 304, 312, 318, 338–339

Daugherty, Harry, 258

Davis, Norman, 266

Davison, Henry, 222–223

Dawes, Charles G., 264

Dawes Plan, 264–266

Debow, James B. D., 133

Debs, Eugene, 166, 173

debt peonage, 175–176

Deep Blue computer, 409–410

Deere, John, 87

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), 420, 466

Defense Plant Corporation, 308, 311–312, 348

defense spending

under Carter and Reagan, 391

national security and, 463–464

deficit spending

Great Recession and irrational fears about deficits, 454–456

national debt in World War II, 325

recession of 1928–1933 and New Deal relief programs, 285–300

recession of 1937–1938, 300–303

deflation, Great Depression and, 278–279

DeGolyer, Everette, 335

deindustrialization, of US, 433

Delano, Frederic, 341

Delano, Warren II, 65

Delaware, 216–217

DeLong, Bradford, 221

demographic changes, post–World War II, 341–345, 356–362, 451–452

Dempsey, Paul Stephen, 383–384

Deng Xiaoping, 431

deposit insurance, 286

Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act, 385–386

Derby, Elias Hasket, 63–64

deregulation. See New Deal, dismantling of

Desert Land Act (1877), 177–178

developmental capitalism, of Hamilton, 12–13, 460. See also New Nationalism

Bryan and, 182

List and, 224

producerism contrasted, 15–17

Dickinson, John, 288

Dickson, William Kennedy Laurie, 251

Dictionnaire universel de commerce (Savary), 32

Diesel, Rudolf, 199

Diesel engines, 199–200

Digges, Thomas, 39

Digital Library Initiative (DLI), 420

Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, 449

Dodge, John and Horace, 247

dollar. See also currency issues

origin of term, 37

reserve currency status and, 459

Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, 435

Donnelly, Ignatius, 179

Doriot, George, 418

Douglas, Lewis, 288

Douglas, Stephen A., 129–130, 143

Douglas, William O., 302

Dow Chemical, 374

Dow Jones Industrial Average, 196, 269–270

Doyle, Geraldine Hoff, 321

Drake, Edwin, 77, 161, 200

Dred Scott v. Sanford, 130

Drew, Daniel, 157–158

Drucker, Peter, 367, 440

Duane, James, 31

Duane, William, 115

Dubinsky, David, 298

Duer, William, 41–42

Dunlop, J. B., 200

Dunne, Finley Peter, 226–227

DuPont, 192, 217, 313, 349

Durand, W. F., 404

earned-income tax credit (EITC), 474, 475

Easley, Ralph Montgomery, 227

Eastman Kodak, 192, 217, 251, 416

Eccles, Marriner, 274, 285, 301, 302

Eckert, J. Presper, 408, 413

Eckert, Wallace J., 411

Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, 413

Eckes, Alfred E., 369

E. C. Knight, 232

Economic Basis of Protection, The (Patten), 147

Economic Opportunity Act (1964), 359

Economic Revitalization Board, 380

Economics (Samuelson), 357

Eddy, Arthur Jerome, 258

Edgar Thomson Steel Company, 162

Edison, Thomas, 3, 9, 202, 397–398

AC/DC issue, 196–197

electric motors, 9, 198

Ford and, 246–247

Insull and, 249

lightbulbs, 194–195

movie trust and, 251–252

research and development, 192–194

Edison Electric Illuminating Company, 195–197

Edison General Electric, 249

Edison Manufacturing Company, 251

education

in early age of steam, 97–98

land-grant colleges, 149–150, 192, 203–204

Next American Republic and proposals for higher-education, 476–477

Edwards, Corwin, 300

Einstein, Albert, 403

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 10, 182, 319, 336, 340, 351, 360, 370

Eizenstat, Stuart E., 387

Electric Home and Farm Authority, 338

electricity

AC/DC issue, 195–197

automobile industry and, 247–248

deregulation of industry, 383

discovery of, 189–194

electric motors, 9, 197–198

growth and regulation of sector, after World War II, 336–339

household appliances, 344–345

industry productivity increases, 262

lighting, 194–195

private utility industry, 249–250

trolley systems, 209

electric numerical integrator and calculator (ENIAC), 408

Electrocuting an Elephant (film), 197

elevators, 209–210

Elizabeth, New Jersey, 452

Ellis Island, 168–169

Ely, Richard T., 214

Emergency Banking Act, 286

Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, 447–448

Emergency Relief and Construction Act, 281

Emergency Revenue Act (1916), 241

Emergency Tariff Act (1921), 265–266

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 105

employer-based benefits

dismantling of system of, 364

health insurance, in World War II, 326

in Next American Economy, 475–476

retirement plan changes in twenty-first century, 437–442

Empress of China, 63

Engelbart, Douglass, 419

England. See Britain

England’s Treasure by Foreign Trade (Mun), 22

Enron, 384

environmental movement, emergence of, 379

Equitable Insurance Building, 209

Erie Canal, 7, 53–57

Erie Railway Company, 157–158

Essex, 76

European Coal and Steel Community, 332

European Economic Community, 332, 371

European Space Agency, 406

Evans, Matthew, 194

Evans, Oliver, 90–91

Evans, Redd, 321–322

excise taxes

Civil War debts and, 137–138

Great Depression and, 305

on whiskey, 35

Export-Import Bank, 355

ExxonMobil, 162

Fairbank, John K., 65

Fairchild Semiconductor, 414, 416

Fairfield, George A., 97

Fair Housing Act (1968), 357

Fair Labor Standards Act (1938), 295, 343

Fannie Mae, 355, 430, 444, 446, 447

Faraday, Michael, 190, 191, 197–198

Farm Bureau, 347

Farm Credit System, 355, 467

Farmer, Moses, 194

Farnsworth Television and Radio Company, 207–208

Farwell, Charles and John, 177

Fascism, 288–289

Federal Aid Road Act (1916), 111, 340

Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 347

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), 286

Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), 287

Federal Farm Board (FFB), 276

Federal Farm Loan Bank System, 277

Federal Home Loan Bank Act (1932), 277, 355

Federal Home Loan Bank System, 277, 355, 467

Federal Housing Administration (FHA), 355, 361

Federalist Papers, 30, 38

Federal Land-Grant Act, 143

Federal Maritime Commission, 347

Federal Power Act (1935), 337

Federal Power Commission (FPC), 337, 347

Federal Reserve System, 116, 142

establishment of, 222–223

Great Depression and, 280

stock market crash and discount rate, 269

Federal Trade Commission, 230

Fermi, Enrico, 401, 404

Ferrucci, David, 409

Fidelity, 437–438

Filene, Edward, 273

Fillmore, Millard, 143

finance capitalism, transition to managerial capitalism, 349–351

financial crisis, of 2007, 434–435, 444–450. See also Great Recession

Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act (1989), 386

financial-market capitalism, 364, 436–440

financial system. See also banking system

deregulation of, 385–386

policy proposals for Next American Economy, 467–469

Finland, 371, 372

Firestone, Harvey, 201–202

Firestone tires, 201–202

First American Republic, 5–8, 481

First Industrial Revolution (steam power), 6–8, 81–82, 191, 208, 453–454

American System of H. Clay, 8, 16, 81, 104–108, 116–117, 140–141, 460

American system of manufacturing, 95–97

Civil War and Reconstruction, 129–150

education and technology, 97–98

electric motors and, 198–199

English superiority at start of, 83–85, 99–104

Jackson’s rejection of federal authority, 108–117

railroads and, 90–95, 151–185

regional societal differences and, 119–128

shipping and passenger ship travel, 87–90

Southern opposition to government-sponsored industrial capitalism, 102–104

state infrastructure building, 117–119

textile manufacturing and, 86–87

First National Bank, 219, 231, 232

Fisher, Richard, 440

Fisk, James, 157–158

Fitch, John, 7, 87

Flagler, Henry, 161

Fleming, Alexander, 315

Food Administration, 244–245

Ford, Gerald, 10, 381

Ford, Henry, 202, 246–248, 261, 299, 318, 474

Ford, William Clay Jr., 437

Fordism, 260–262, 361

for service sector, 472–475

Walmart and anti-Fordism, 425–426

Ford Motor Company, 247–249, 311, 353–354, 424, 437, 441

Fordney-McCumber Tariff (1922), 265–266

foreign direct investment, 265, 377

Foreign Trade Zone 49, 452–453

Forgotten Man, The (Shlaes), 294

Fort Peck Dam, 338

Foster, William Trufant, 273

France

America War of Independence and, 26

automobile development and, 192

aviation in, 205

Civil War and, 132

economic growth of, 372

manufacturing capacity, after World War I, 263

minimum wage and, 295–296

railroads and, 154

World War I and, 240, 264

Frank, Barney, 447

Frank, Jerome, 285, 288

Frankfurter, Felix, 229, 299

Franklin, Benjamin, 189–190, 191

Franklin, William, 189

Franklin Institute, 95

Freddie Mac, 430, 444, 446, 447

Freeman, S. David, 384–385

free market competition. See producerism, of Jefferson

Free to Choose (Friedman and Friedman), 378

free trade

Cold War concessions to allies, 331–332, 368–376, 456–457

protectionism versus, 146–147

Frémont, John C., 74, 128

Freud, Sigmund, 254

Frezza, Bill, 156

Friant Dam, 338

Frick, Henry Clay, 173

Friedman, Milton, 272, 279, 378

Friedman, Rose, 378

Frigorifique (ship), 203

Fuel Administration, 243

fugitive-slave law, 120–121

Fuller, Ida May, 296

Fuller, R. Buckminster, 344

Fulton, Robert, 87–89, 92, 191

fur trade, 72–75

Galbraith, John Kenneth, 302, 304, 329, 348, 350, 352, 378, 441

Gale, Leonard, 94

Gallatin, Albert, 43–44, 46, 53, 55, 69–70, 71, 114

Garfield, Dr. Sidney, 318

Garner, John Nance, 284, 334

Garn–St. Germain Depository Institutions Act (1982), 386

Gary, Elbert, 233

Gates, Bill, 417

General Aniline, 313

General Dyestuffs, 313

General Electric, 259, 416

broadcasting and, 207

creation of, 196, 197, 217, 220

employee benefits, 260

financial-market capitalism, 436–437

jet engines, 404, 427

research and development, 192

General Motors, 426, 437

creation of, 249

employee benefits and, 441

twenty-first century bailout of, 448

unions and, 298, 351–354

General Motors Acceptance Corporation, 218

General Services Administration, 348

General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, The (Keynes), 12

George, Henry, 179, 223

Georgia, 134

Germany

aviation in, 204

banking system, 218

Cold War and mercantilist policies, 371, 372, 457

globalization, 428

Great Recession, 455

import-substitution policy, 146

jet engines, 404–405

manufacturing capacity, after World War I, 263

Next American economy and, 459

research universities in, 202

social reforms in nineteenth century, 223–224

World War I, 235–236, 264–266, 270

World War II, 236–239, 310, 314, 331–332, 397

Gesner, Abraham, 77

Giannini, A. P., 254, 285, 434

Gibbons v. Ogden, 88, 90

Gilleran, James, 363

Gilman, George F., 252

Girard, Stephen, 49, 65–68, 70–72

Girard College, 66

Glass-Steagall Act, 280, 286, 349, 354, 355, 385–386

repeal of, 435

Glidden, J. F., 177

globalization, early twenty-first century current account deficits and, 423–434

Goethals, George Washington, 238

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 473

Goldman, Eric, 245–246

Goldman Sachs, 435

gold standard

agriculture and, 179

Civil War and debt repayment issues, 148–149

Fisk, Gould, and manipulation of, 158

Hoover and Great Depression mistakes, 280

McKinley and, 183

Nixon and suspension of dollar’s convertibility, 376

Reconstruction and return to, 148–149

Roosevelt and Great Depression, 272, 285

Goldwater, Barry, 182

Gompers, Samuel, 171, 172, 225, 227

Goodrich, Benjamin Franklin, 202

Goodyear, Charles, 201

Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, 201–202

Google, Inc., 420–421

Gore, Al, 271

Gorgas, Josiah, 134

Gould, Jay, 157–158

government

Foreign Trade Zone 49 and private cooperation, 452–453

support of innovation, 203–208

support of manufacturing, 465

Government Accounting Office (GAO), 383

Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae), 444, 467

Grady, Henry, 175

Grain Stabilization Corporation, 276

Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, 382

Grand Coulee Dam, 275–276, 304, 312, 318, 338–339

Grange, 179

Grant, Ulysses S., 135, 145, 158, 165

Great Compression, of incomes, 440–441

Great Depression. See also New Deal

causes explored, 271–275

Hoover’s attempts to handle, 275–283

stock market collapse and, 269–271

Great Dismantling. See New Deal, dismantling of

Great Migration, 176, 260

Great Northern Railroad, 156

Great Recession, 267, 272, 427, 448–449, 481

global imbalances and, 456

irrational fears of deficit, 454–456

origins, 272

Great Train Robbery, The (film), 251

Greenspan, Alan, 439

Gribeauval, Jean-Baptiste, 96

grocery chains, 252–253

Groves, Leslie, 403

Guaranty Trust Company, 219

Guericke, Otto van, 190

Gulf Oil, 333, 335

Gulick, Luther, 297

Guthrie, Woody, 339

H1-B visa, 480

Haber, Fritz, 202

Haber-Bosch process, 202

Hale, David, 390

Hall, John H., 97

Halliburton, 285, 316

Hamilton, Alexander, 30–31, 71

assumption of state war debts by federal government, 33–36

Bank of New York and, 41–42

Bank of the United States and, 36

on banks and public utility, 469

developmental economics and, 12–13

Report on Manufactures, 2, 31, 37–39, 40, 104

state-sponsored economic development and, 2–3, 4, 36–47

study of political economy, 31–33

Hamilton, Alexander Jr., 114

Hamilton, Elizabeth Schuyler, 61

Hamilton, James, 113–114

Hammond, George, 40

Hammond, James Henry, 132

Hanch, Charles C., 242

Hanna, Mark, 222, 227

Hanson, P. R. “Roly,” 415

Harding, Warren G., 255, 257

Harford, George and John, 252

Harriman, Henry, 291

Hartford, George, 252

Harvey, William H. “Coin,” 179

Hatch Act (1887), 149–150, 203

Hawaii, 75

Hawley, Willis, 271

Hawley-Smoot Tariff, 271–272

Hay, John, 136, 180, 263

Hayek, Friedrich, 279

Haymarket Riot, 171–172

health care industry, in Next American Economy, 472–473, 475–477

health insurance. See employer-based benefits

Hearst, William Randolph, 164

Heinkel, Ernst, 405

Henry, Alexander, 68

Henry, Joseph, 94

Henry J. Kaiser Foundation, 319

Hepburn, William P., 227

Herndon, William, 118, 139

Hewes, George R. T., 21–22

Hewlett, Bill, 416

Hewlett-Packard, 416–417

Heyward, Nathaniel, 124

Higgins, Andrew Jackson, 319

high-speed rail, 466

Hill, James J., 156

Hillman, Sidney, 298

Hoe, Richard, 164

Hoffman, Felix, 203

holding companies, 216–217, 250, 336–337, 354

Holland, John Philip, 3

Hollerith, Herman, 407, 410

Home Ownership Loan Corporation, 289

Homestead Act, 149, 178

Hong Kong, 375, 432

Hoover, Herbert

associationalism of, 257–259, 289, 361

Great Depression and, 269, 275–283, 291

post–World War II, 332, 334

as secretary of commerce, 255–258, 265, 315, 361

tariffs and, 271

World War I and, 244–245, 270

Hoover Dam, 257, 276, 318, 338

Hopkins, Harry, 287, 341

Houdry, Eugene, 315

House, Edward Mandell, 299

housing

government support of expansion of, post–World War II, 341–342

mortgage interest tax deduction and, 442

securitization of mortgages, 444–446

Howard, Christopher, 442

Hudson Bay Company, 68, 74

Huerta, Dolores, 358

Huerta, Victoriano, 238

Hughes, Jonathan, 361

Hume, David, 31

Humphrey, George, 370

Hunt, H. L., 334, 360

Hurd v. Rock Island Bridge Company, 143

Hurley, Edward, 243

Huxley, Aldous, 261

Hyatt, John Wesley, 203

hydroelectric dams, 257, 338

hyperlink concept, 419

Ibn Saud, 335

Iceland, 369

Ickes, Harold, 257

IG Farben, 313

Illinois, 118–119, 142–143

Illinois Central Railroad, 143

immigration

between 1840s and World War I, 168–170

labor markets and, 170–172, 364, 470

Lowell and welfare capitalism, 86

post–World War II, 359

to preindustrial United States, 39

quotas in early twentieth century, 259–260

import substitution policy, 45, 95, 104, 105, 141, 146, 147, 183, 257, 368, 428

income inequality. See maldistribution of income

income taxes

financing of Civil War and, 137–138

progressivism and Constitutional amendment, 230–231

World War I, 240–241

World War II, 325

India, 428, 457, 459

Indiana, 117–118

Indonesia, 429

indoor plumbing, 344

Industrial State, The (Galbraith), 350–351

Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies), 172

inflation in 1970s, 367–368

deregulation to control, 380–381, 386–388

information technology. See Third Industrial Revolution (information age)

infrastructure, policy proposals for Next American Economy, 466–467

innovation, policy proposals for Next American Economy, 461–463

Inouye, Daniel, 324

Insull, Samuel, 249–250, 336–337

integrated circuits, 414

Intel, 414, 416

interest rates, 387, 447

internal combustion engine, 191–192, 199–200

Internal Revenue Service, 138

International Business Machines (IBM), 373, 437

computer development, 407–414, 417

International General Electric (IGE), 259

International Harvester, 217

International Monetary Fund (IMF), 368, 429

International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (Intelsat), 406

International Telephone and Telegraph (IT&T), 366

Internet, 413, 419–421

Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), 154, 347

Interstate Highway System, 110, 340–341

Interstate Oil Compact (IOC), 334

investment banks, 354, 440

culture of, 434–435

firewall between investment banks and, 385

firewall between savings and loans and, 363

“Morganization” and, 218–221

“I Paid My Income Tax Today” (song), 325–326

Iran, 335

Iraq, 335

ironclad ships, 137

Irving, Washington, 69

Jablochkoff, Paul N., 194

Jackson, Andrew, 108–109, 182

Bank of the United States and, 8–9, 81, 110, 111–117

Clay and, 109, 111, 114, 115

Clay’s American System and, 16

National Road and, 110–111

Tariff of Abominations and Nullification Crisis, 109–110, 140

War of 1812 and, 43

Jackson, Robert, 299

James, Edmund D., 147

Japan

Cold War and mercantilist policies, 371–373, 376, 428–429, 457

England and, 100

globalization, 428, 432

Great Recession and, 455

immigration policies, 479

import substitution, 146

manufacturing capacity, after World War I, 263

Next American economy and, 459

support of low-end industries, 86

US trade imbalance with, 388–390

World War II, 309–310, 397

Japanese Americans, in World War II, 324

Jarlson, Axel, 170

Jay Cooke & Co., 165

Jefferson, Thomas

Astor and, 69, 73

Bank of the United States, 36, 114

bias against manufacturing, 42–43, 46, 78

on Blanc’s factory, 96

Erie Canal and, 54

on Hamilton, 34

immigration and, 39

O-Grab-Me embargo and, 43, 69

patents and, 40

producerism and, 14–17, 182

slavery and, 57

US currency and, 37

Jenney, William Le Baron, 210

Jennings, Ken, 409–410

Jeopardy, 409–410

jet engines, 404–405, 424, 427

Jevons, Stanley, 101

Jobs, Steve, 417

Jobs Corps, 359

Johnson, Andrew, 148

Johnson, Griff, 302

Johnson, Hugh, 288–289, 293

Johnson, Lyndon, 317, 338, 346

immigration and, 481

on Roosevelt, 305–306

Roosevelt and, 284

War on Poverty, 358–359, 370

Johnson, Robert Wood, 253

Johnston, William, 75

Joiner, C. M. “Dad,” 334

Joint American Study Company (Jasco), 313

Jones, Jesse, 284, 289

Jones, William, 71

Jones, William R., 162–163

Joule, James Prescott, 190

J. P. Morgan and Co., 286

J. P. Morgan and Company, 219, 220, 232, 239–240, 286, 438

JP Morgan Chase, 434, 447

J. S. Morgan & Co., 219

Kafka, Franz, 169

Kahn, Otto, 265

Kaiser, Henry J., 316, 318–319

Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation, 312

Kaiser Permanente, 318–319

Kaiser Steel, 317

Kalecki, Michal, 386

Kansas-Nebraska Act, 8, 128, 129–130

Kapur, Ajay, 443

Kaye, Danny, 325

Keefe, Mary, 322

Kemmler, William, 197

Kendall, Amos, 115

Kennan, George, 331

Kennedy, Edward, 391

Kennedy, John F., 346, 370, 375

Kennedy, Joseph, 285

Keynes, John Maynard, 12, 273, 278–279, 291–292, 302, 307, 448, 470

Keynesian economics, 378

Keystone Bridge and Pittsburgh Locomotive Works, 162

Kildall, Gary, 417

Kilgore, Harley, 402

King, Martin Luther Jr., 324, 357

King, William, 143

Kissinger, Henry, 376

Kleine, George, 251

Kleiner, Eugene, 418

Kleiner Perkins, 418

Knights of Labor, 171–172

Knox, Philander, 227

Knudsen, William, 298–299

Koenig, Friedrich, 164

Korea Oil Corporation (KOCO), 374

Kroc, Ray, 342

Kruesi, John, 193, 194

Krugman, Paul, 272

Ku Klux Klan, 183

Kuznets, Simon, 311

labor theory of value, 79

labor unions

class warfare and, 172–173

decline of, 441, 470

deregulation’s effect on, 364, 382

Fordism and, 260–261

Hay’s portrayal of, 180

immigration and, 170–172

NIRA and recognition of, 295

post–World War II benefits and, 353–354

Roosevelt and, 297–299

stakeholder capitalism and, 352–353

World War I, 244

World War II, 320–321

Laemmle, Karl, 252

Lafayette, marquis de, 2, 54

La Follette, Robert, 182

Lamont, Thomas, 264, 302

Lamoreaux, Naomi, 217

land-grant colleges, government support and, 149–150, 192, 203–204

Langley, Samuel Pierpont, 204

Laski, Harold J., 290

Latinos, 324, 357–358, 359, 478–479

Lavassor, Émile, 200

Lawrence, Ernest, 403

Lay, Ken, 384

Lazarus, Emma, 168–169

Lease, Mary Ellen, 179

Lebergott, Stanley, 260

Lee, Roswell, 97

Legal Tender Act (1862), 141

Lehman Brothers, 12, 446, 447

Lend-Lease Act, 309

L’Enfant, Pierre, 2

Lenoir, Jean-Étienne, 199

Letter Concerning Toleration (Locke), 23

Levittown, 340

Lewis, John L., 297–298, 302, 321

Leyden jar, 190

Liberalism (von Mises), 288–289

Liberty League, 301

Liberty Ships, 318

Libraries of the Future (Licklider), 419–420

Licklider, J. C., 412–413, 419–420

Life magazine, 399

lightbulbs, 194–195, 259

Lilienthal, David, 285, 338

Limits to Growth, The (Club of Rome), 379

Lincoln, Abraham, 74, 82, 121, 128, 130, 482

American Colonization Society, 57

banking reform and, 141–142

Homestead Act and, 149

Illinois infrastructure and, 118

national banking system and, 9

political economy of, 139–144

railroads and, 152, 155

technological innovation and, 135–137

Lincoln, Mary Todd, 139, 140

Lindbergh, Charles, 311

Lindsay, Vachel, 181

Lippmann, Walter, 275

liquidationists, Great Depression and, 278–279, 291

List, Friedrich, 104, 224

Livingston, Robert, 61, 87–89, 92

Lloyd George, David, 224

Locke, John, 23

Loeb, John Jacob, 321–322

London, Jack, 182

Long Term Capital Management (LTCM), 429

Looking Backward (Bellamy), 179

Louisiana, 124

Louvre Accord, 389

Lowell, Francis Cabot, 85–86

Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), 338

Lowery, Grosvenor, 194

Lucas, Robert, 446

Lucent, 437

Lusitania, 239

MacDonald, Thomas Harris, 340

Macintosh, Charles, 201

MacLeod, Niall, 443

Macomb, William, 41

Madison, James

American Colonization Society, 57

Bank of the United States, 47, 114

Erie Canal, 53–54

Hamilton and, 42

protective tariffs, 45

War of Independence debts, 33

Malaysia, 429

Malcolmson, Alexander, 247

maldistribution of income

in early twentieth century, 262–266

in early twenty-first century, 440–444

Great Depression and, 273–275

policy proposals for Next American Economy, 469–471

Mallet, John W., 134

Malthus, Thomas, 78–79

managerial capitalism, 349–351

Manhattan Project, 396–397, 402–404

Manufacturers’ Aircraft Association, 205

manufacturing, policy proposals for Next American Economy, 463–465

Marconi, Guglielmo, 206–207

Marine Mammals of the North-Western Coast of North America, The (Scammon), 77

Marquette National Bank v. First Omaha Service Company, 385

Marshall, George, 332

Marshall, John, 88

Marshall, Laurence K., 415

Marshall Plan, 332, 369

Martineau, Harriet, 54

Martin Marietta, 320

Marx, Karl, 79, 105

Maryland Chronicle, 56–57

Massachusetts

Boston Tea Party, 21–22

textile manufacturing, 127

War of Independence debts, 29–30, 35

whaling industry, 76–77

mass production, 248, 318

mass transit, 208–209, 342, 466

“Mathematical Theory of Communication, A” (Shanon), 408

Mattei, Enrico, 335

Mauchly, John W., 408, 413

Maxwell, James Clerk, 190

Maybach, Wilhelm, 199

Mayer, Louis B., 252

Maysville Road, 110–111

McAdoo, William Gibbs, 240, 243

McCormick, Cyrus, 87, 97

McCormick Harvesting Company, 171–172

McCormick’s reaper, 87, 97, 121

McCraw, Thomas K., 221

McDonald, Dick and Maurice, 342

McDonald’s, 342, 437

McFadden Act, 355

McGovern, George, 391

McHenry, William, 2

McKenney, William, 73

McKinley, William, 146, 149, 172, 180–183, 263

McKinley Tariff, 146

McLean, Malcolm Purcell, 424

McNary-Watres Act (1930), 206

McReynolds, Jack, 297

Means, Gardiner C., 213–214, 350

meat packaging, 160

Meat vs. Rice: American Manhood Against Asiatic Coolieism. Which Shall Survive? (Gompers), 171

Medicaid, 377, 475, 476, 477

Medicare, 441, 475, 476–477

Mellen, Charles S., 221

Mellon, Andrew, 231, 278–279

Melville, Hermann, 76

memex, of V. Bush, 399–400, 419

mercantilism

Cold War and, 331–332, 368–376, 456–457

England’s, and effect on colonies, 22–26, 33, 37

Hamilton’s developmental economics, 12–13

Jefferson’s producerism and, 15–17

mergers, in Second Industrial Revolution, 213–233

Merrill Lynch, 434, 446, 447

Mexican Revolution, 238

Mexico, 377

Meyer, Eugene, 277

Michoud, Antoine, 319

Microsoft, 417, 427

Microwave Communications Inc. (MCI), 382

Middle class, rebuilding strategies for Next American Economy, 471–475

Middle East oil, 335–336

Middle West Utility Corporation, 250

Midwest

alliance with South, 126–127

modernization of, before Civil War, 120–122

migration, within United States, 124, 176, 260

military

defense spending and, 391

manufacturing capacity and national security, 463–464

Milken, Michael, 436, 450

Mill, J. S., 78

Miller, J. Howard, 321

Miller, Lebbeus B., 97

Millis, Harry, 260

Milward, Alan, 327–328

minié ball, 136

Minié, Claude-Étienne, 136

minimum wage, 343, 361, 364

declining value of, 441, 470

Mississippi, 124

Missouri Compromise, 129–130

Mitchell, Andrew, 39

Mitchell, Samuel Latham, 69

MITRE Corporation, 412

Mittasch, Alwin, 202

Moby-Dick (Melville), 76

Model T Ford, 246–249

Modern Corporation and Private Property, The (Berle and Means), 213–214, 350

Modern Times (film), 261

Mokyr, Joel, 191

Moley, Raymond, 288

Molly Maguires, 165

money market accounts, 385–386

money trust, 231–232

Monroe, James, 54, 73

Monroe, Rose Will, 322

Montgomery, Royal, 260

Montgomery Ward, 253

Moody, John, 217

Moore, Gordon, 414

Morgan, Amelia “Memie” Sturges, 219–220

Morgan, Frances Tracy, 220

Morgan, Jack Jr., 220

Morgan, John Pierpont, 9, 161, 193, 216–217, 225–227, 232, 250, 286

Edison Electric and, 195–196, 197, 249

“Morganization” and, 219–221

Pujo Committee, 231

US financial crises and, 221–222

Morgan, Joseph, 219

Morgan, J. P. “Jack,” 264

Morgan, Junius, 219

“Morganization,” 218–221

Morgan Stanley, 286

Morgenthau, Henry, 301, 331–332

Morrill, Justin, 146

Morrill land-grant colleges, 149, 192, 203

Morrill Tariff, 145

Morris, Gouverneur, 27, 53, 71

Morris, Robert, 26–29, 31, 35, 37, 63

Morse, Samuel F. B., 93–94, 159

mortgage interest tax deduction, 442

Mossadegh, Mohammad, 335

motion-picture industry, 251–252

Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC), 251–252

motor power. See Second Industrial Revolution

Moulton, Stephen, 201

Moyers, Bill, 359

MS-DOS, 417

multinational corporations, 427–428

Mun, Thomas, 22

Murphy, R. Taggart, 389

Murphy, Thomas, 352

Murphy, William H., 247

Murray, Philip, 302

Mussolini, Benito, 288–289

Napoleon Bonaparte, 107

NASA, 319–320, 406

Nathan, Robert, 311

National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA), 205, 406

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 205, 206

National Association of Manufacturers, 245, 261

National Banking Act (1863), 116

National Biscuit (Nabisco), 217, 220

National Cash Register (NCR), 410

National City Bank, 219, 231, 232

National Civic Federation, 227

National Credit Corporation, 276–277

National Currency Acts (1863 and 1864), 142

National Defense Mediation Board (NDMB), 320

National Defense Resource Committee (NDRC), 401, 403, 408

National Grain Corporation, 276

National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), 10, 287–296

“virtual,” after World War II, 345–347, 361

National Institutes of Health, 192

National Labor Relations Act (1935), 353

National Labor Union, 171

National Recovery Administration (NRA), 16, 279, 361

National Road, 46, 110–111

National Science Foundation (NSF), 192, 402, 420

national security, manufacturing base and, 463–464

National Telegraph and Telephone Company (NTT), in Japan, 373

National War Labor Board, 244

National Youth Administration (NYA), 304

natural gas, 201

Navigation Acts, England, 24

Navigation Acts, United States, 52

NBC, 207, 348

Nelson, Donald, 310

Nelson, Theodore H., 419

neoclassical economics. See producerism, of Jefferson

neoliberalism, 11–12, 362, 375, 376, 380, 391, 441

Neutrality Acts, 308

“New Colossus, The” (Lazarus), 168–169

Newcomen, Thomas, 84

New Competition, The (Eddy), 258

New Deal, 10, 11

attempt to balance budget and recession of 1937–1938, 300–303

deficit spending, relief programs, and recession of 1928–1933, 285–300

leadership of, 283–285

successes and failures of, 303–306

New Deal, dismantling of, 363–391

Cold War and trade concessions to allies, 368–376

deregulation and its effects, 380–391

growth of conservative, supply-side movement, 376–380

inflation in 1970s, 367–368

managing for finance, not production, 365–367

New Freedom, 10, 225, 228–231, 233

“new individualism,” 277

New Jersey

corporate law in, 216–217

Edison’s Menlo Park laboratory, 193–194

protectionism and, 145

New Nationalism, 9–10, 225–228, 230, 233

New Orleans, 88

New York

Erie Railway Company, 158

Hudson River valley landowners and tenants, 60–62

New York Central Railroad, 220

New York Daily Tribune, 67

New York Gazette, 34

New York Herald, 168

New York Journal, 164

New York Press, 164

New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), 42, 435, 438

New York Temporary Emergency Relief Administration (TERA), 287

New York Times, 142, 195, 407

New York World, 158, 164

New Zealand, 146, 290

NeXt, 417

Next American Economy, 451–482

case for skilled immigration, 478–481

financial policy proposed, 467–469

global rebalancing of America’s role needed, 456–461

Great Recession and irrational fears about deficits, 454–456

infrastructure policy proposed, 466–467

innovation policy proposed, 461–463

maldistribution of income and wealth, 469–471

manufacturing policy proposed, 463–465

middle class rebuilding strategies, 471–475

social contract in, 475–477

Niles, Hezekiah, 104, 125

Nimitz, Chester, 328

Nixon, Richard, 10, 375–376, 380, 381, 457

NLS (oNLine system), 419

Nobel, Alfred, 202

Norris, George, 338

North, Simeon, 96, 97

North American Aviation, 321

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 332

North Carolina National Bank, 434

Northeast, modernization of, before Civil War, 119–120, 122

Northern Pacific Railroad, 152, 165, 232

Northern Securities Corporation, 227, 232

Northwest Ordinances, 120

Norway, 371

nostalgic historical preservation, deindustrialization and, 4

Notes on the State of Virginia (Jefferson), 44

Noyce, Robert, 414

nuclear power plants, 339

Nullification Crisis, 109–110

Nusbaum, Aaron, 164

Nye, Gerald P., 240

Obama, Barack, 448–449

Occupy Wall Street movement, 449

Oersted, Hans Christian, 190

Office of Price Administration (OPA), 326

Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), 396, 401, 403

Office of War Mobilization, 310

O-Grab-Me embargo, 43, 69

Ohain, Hans von, 404–405

Ohio-Steamboat Navigation Company, 88

Ohio Telegraph Company, 162

oil industry, 160–161, 200–201

imports and US trade deficit, 430–431

oil glut of 1980s, 388

pipelines and, 316

price of oil in 1970s, 381

waste and regulation of, post–World War II, 333–336

Oklahoma, 178

Oldham, W. S., 131

oligopolies

in twenty-first century, 427, 437

after World War II, 347–349

Olney, Richard, 173

Omaha Platform, 179

opium trade, 64–66, 100

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 397, 404

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), 336, 381, 433–434

Oruktor Amphibolos, 91

OTC derivatives, 436

Other People’s Money: And How the Bankers Use It (Brandeis), 232

Otis, Elisha Graves, 209

Otis Elevator, 209, 217

Otto, Nikolaus August, 199

Otto engine, 199

Ottoman Empire, 100

Outcault, Richard and Felton, 164

Pacific Fur Company, 72

Pacific Railroad Act, 151–152, 155

Pacific Telegraph Act (1860), 159

Packard, David, 416

Page, Larry, 420

Pahlavi, Muhammad Reza Shah, 335

Panama Canal, 238

Panic of 1792, 41–42

Panic of 1837, 116, 118, 167

Panic of 1893, 166, 173, 221–222

Panic of 1907, 222

Parish, David, 70–72

Park Chung-hee, 374

Parkinson, George, 39

Parris, Hugh G., 379

Parsonage, Edward E., 242

Parsons, Charles, 198

Parsons, William, 198

Paterson, New Jersey, 1–4, 40, 451–452

Paterson, William, 2

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010), 449

Patman, Wright, 253

Patten, Simon, 147

Patterson, John H., 410

Paulson, Henry, 447

Pax Americana

in Cold War, 331–333, 368–376, 456–457

moving beyond, in Next American economy, 456–461

Peabody, George, 219

peak associations, 296

Peek, George Nelson, 289

penicillin, 315

Pennsylvania

canals and, 55

coal in, 94–95

infrastructure in, 121

labor violence and, 173

oil and, 77–78, 161, 200

protectionism and, 104–105, 145, 146–147, 149

whiskey tax and, 35

Pennsylvania, University of, 147

Pennsylvania Railroad, 162

Pennsylvania Society for the Encouragement of Manufactures and the Useful Arts, 39

Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation, 441

People’s Party, 179

Perfect Merchant, The (Savary), 32

Perkin-Elmer, 414

Perkins, Frances, 288, 297

Perkins, Thomas Handasyd, 64

Perkins, Tom, 418

Pershing, John J., 310

Persia, 100

personal computers, 416–417, 427

Peterson, Pete, 376

Pettis, Spencer, 117

Phoebus cartel, 259

Pidgeon, Walter, 322

Pinchot, Gifford, 336

pipelines, 316

Plankton, Armour & Co., 160

plastics, 203

Plaza Accord, 389, 429

plutonomies, 443

political economy, Hamilton’s study of, 31–33

Pope Manufacturing Company, 97

Populism, 179

Porter, Cole, 288

POSCO, 374

Postlethwayt, Malachy, 31–32, 33

Potomac Company, 58–59

Powderly, Terence, 172

Powers, James, 407

Pratt and Whitney, 427

preindustrial economy, 19

canals and, 53–57

characteristics of, 49–52

early financial systems and federal assumption of state war debts, 26–37

England’s mercantilism and, 21–26

Hudson River valley landowners and tenants, 60–62

merchants and traders, 62–78

slavery and, 57–60

state-sponsored economic development and protective tariffs, 37–47

price-fixing, “ruinous competition” and, 215–216

Priestly, Joseph, 189, 190

Principles of Political Economy (Carey), 105

producerism, of Jefferson, 14–15. See also New Freedom

Bryan and, 182

Hamilton’s developmental economics contrasted, 15–17

productivity growth, innovation and, 461–463

Progress and Poverty (George), 179

progressivism, 182, 223–225. See also New Freedom; New Nationalism

Promise of American Life, The (Croly), 225

protectionism. See tariffs

Public Credit Act of 1869, 148

public employment, proposal for Next American Economy, 474

public purpose banks, 467–469

Public Utility Holding Company Act (1935), 337, 346

Public Works Administration (PWA), 288

publishing industry, 164

Pujo, Arsène, 231

Pujo Committee, 231–232

Pulitzer, Joseph, 158, 164

Pullman Company, 220

Pullman Palace Car Company, 173

Pulteney Associates, 29

Purnell Act (1925), 204

Putnam’s Magazine, 98

racism. See civil rights era; Latinos; slavery

radio, 206–207, 257

Radio Corporation of America (RCA), 207–208

Railroad Administration, 243

railroads, 8–9, 82

agricultural sector and, 178–179

consolidation in late nineteenth century, 217–218

corruption and speculation and, 155–158

deregulation of, 382

financial difficulties of early, 153–155

labor violence and, 172–173

late nineteenth century assets, 214

Lincoln and, 143–144

“Morganization” and, 220–221

nationwide strike, 1877, 165–166

oil and, 161

retail businesses and, 163–164

role in Civil War, 135

telegraph and, 159

transcontinental, 143–144, 151–153

Rand, Ayn, 156

Rand, James, 413

Randolph, A. Philip, 323–324

Randolph, Edmund, 36, 40

rationing, during World War II, 326

Ratzel, Friedrich, 125

Rayburn, Sam, 284, 334

Raymond, Daniel, 104

Raytheon, 414–415

Reagan, Ronald, 182, 317, 376, 457

deregulation and, 387–388

New Deal and, 304

supply-side economics and, 11, 378, 390

War on Poverty and, 358–359

Realpolitik, 375–376, 457

Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (RTAP), 368

Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), 277, 279, 284, 289, 308–309, 311, 316, 355, 380, 467

Reed, Dr. Walter, 238

Regulation Q, 355, 385

Relation of the State to Industrial Action (Carter), 225

relief programs. See social contract

Remington, Philo, 210

Remington Rand, 407–408, 413

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 61

Report on Manufactures (Hamilton), 2, 31, 37–39, 40, 104

research and development

government support of innovation, 203–208, 398

proposed federal R&D bank, 462–463

during World War II, 315

after World War II, 349

Resselaerwyck, 60, 62

retail sector, growth after World War I, 252–253

Reuther, Walter, 353

Revenue Act (1932), 280

Reverse Plaza Accord, 429

Reynolds Metal Company, 312

Rhode Island, 27, 29

Ricardo, David, 78–79, 224

Richardson, Sid, 316

Richberg, Donald, 288

Riegle-Neal Act, 386

rifles, Civil War improvements and, 136

Robinson, Joan, 378

Robinson-Patman Act, 253

Rockefeller, Frank, 160

Rockefeller, John D., 160–161, 214, 222

Rockwell, Norman, 322

Roebuck, Alvah Curtis, 164

Rolls-Royce, 427

Romer, Christine, 448

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 28, 65, 178, 239, 379, 482

court-packing and, 294

gold standard and, 376

Great Depression and, 270, 275, 337, 338, 341

Hoover’s associationalism and, 257, 258

labor standards and, 343

labor unions and, 297–299

Manhattan Project and, 403–404

New Deal and, 10, 285, 288, 289, 290, 294, 297, 305, 361

progressivism and, 224, 305

on progress of steam age, 184–185

radio and, 207

V. Bush and, 401–402

World War II, 307–308, 314, 315, 320, 322

Roosevelt, Nicholas, 88

Roosevelt, Theodore

on Bryan, 182

conservation and, 379

corollary to Monroe Doctrine, 237–238

Morgan and financial panic, 222

New Nationalism and, 9–10, 225, 226–227

trade and, 146, 263

Rosenwald, Julius, 164

Rosie the Riveter, 321–322

Royal Dutch Shell, 333, 335

rubber, 201–202

synthetic, 312–314, 348

“ruinous competition,” price-fixing and, 215–216

Rumsey, James, 57

Rural Electrification Administration (REA), 337

Rush, William, 66

Russia, 146, 205, 240, 429. See also Soviet Union

Rutter, Brad, 409

Sachs, Alexander, 403

Saint Lawrence Seaway, 276, 315–316

Salomon, Haym, 27–28

Samuelson, Paul, 357, 378

Sandalwood trade, 75

Sarnoff, David, 207

satellites, 405–406, 420

Saudi Arabia, 335, 381

Saunders, Clarence, 252

Savary, Philemon-Louis, 32

Savary des Bruslons, Jacques, 32–33

savings and loans (S&Ls), 355, 363, 385

Sawyer, William, 195

Scammon, Charles Melville, 77

Scarborough, William, 124

Schechter, Joe, 294–295

Schechter opinion, 293–295, 361

Schelp, Helmut, 405

Schmidt, Eric, 420

Schumacher, E. F., 379

Schumpeter, Joseph, 5, 79, 224

Schuyler, Henry, 61

Schuyler, Philip, 53

Schwab, Charles M., 163, 243

Science, the Endless Frontier (V. Bush), 398, 402

Scioto scandal, 41

Scott, H. Lee, 426

Scott, Tom, 162

Sears, Richard Warren, 163–164

Sears, Roebuck, 163–164, 253, 340, 425

Sears Holdings, 437

Seattle Computer Products, 417

Second American Republic, 5–6, 8–10, 150, 481

Second Industrial Revolution (Motor Age), 187, 397, 453–454

corporate mergers and antitrust issues, 213–233

economic growth and global trade imbalances, 255–267

Great Depression, 269–283

innovations and their effects on US, 189–211

New Deal and, 10, 11, 283–306

New Deal’s dismantling, 363–391

post–World War II expansion, demographic changes, and government regulation, 329–362

World War I, 235–255

World War II, 307–328

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 289, 337, 347, 349, 435

securitization, of mortgage loans, 444–446

Semi-Automatic Business Research Environment (SABRE), 413

Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE), 412–413

Seneca Chief, 53, 54

Seton, William, 41

shadow banking system, 436

Shannon, Claude, 407–408

sharecropping, in post–Civil War South, 175–176

Shasta Dam, 338

Shays, Daniel, 30

Sherman, William Tecumseh, 135

Sherman Antitrust Act (1890), 16, 173, 215, 226–227, 232, 300

Sherwood, Robert, 305

shipbuilding, in World War II, 327–328

Shipping Board, 243

Shlaes, Amity, 294

Shockley, William, 414, 416

Sholes, Christopher Latham, 210

Shukert, Johann, 194

Siam, 100

Siemens, Werner, 190

Simons, Henry, 279

Singapore, 375, 377, 432

Singer, Isaac Merritt, 97

Singh, Narendra, 443

Six Percent Club, 41

Sixteenth Amendment, to US Constitution, 138, 231

skyscrapers, 209–210

Slater, Samuel, 85, 86

slavery

banned in Midwest, 121

economic stagnation in South and, 122–125

financial cost of abolition of, 139

Girard and, 67–68

slave owners exempt from CSA draft, 134

steam navigation’s impact on, 89

Tariff of Abominations and Nullification Crisis, 110

Washington and Jefferson and, 57–60

Sloan, Alfred P., 249, 298, 301, 367

Small Is Beautiful (Schumacher), 379

Smith, Adam, 12, 24, 31, 38, 52, 78, 101, 103–104, 224, 461, 463

Smith, Al, 301–302

Smith, Charles G., 415

Smith-Lever Act (1914), 204

social contract

Great Depression relief programs, 281, 285–300, 304

proposals for Next American economy, 475–477

unemployment insurance, 257, 361, 454

social democracy, in Europe, 11

Socialist Party of America, 173

Social Science and National Economy (Thompson), 147

Social Security, 296–297, 360–361, 438, 441, 475, 476

Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures (SUM), 2, 39–40

Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (1936), 346

Somervell, Brehon, 311

Sonneborn, Harry, 342

Soros, George, 388

South

alliance with Midwest, 126–127

black codes in, 175–176

incorporation into US mainstream, post–World War II, 343–344

industrial growth during World War II, 316–320

shrinking of wealth, after Civil War, 174–175

slavery and economic stagnation in, 122–125

South Carolina, 124, 130

South Improvement Company, 161

South Korea, 374–375, 377, 429, 432, 459

Soviet Union. See also Russia

Cold War and, 331–332, 369

manufacturing capacity after World War I, 263

space program, 205–206, 405–406

Specie Circular, 116

Spencer, Percy, 415

Sprague, Frank, 208

stagflation, 368

Staggers Act (1980), 155

stakeholder concept of corporation, 351–353

Stalin, Joseph, 261, 332

Standard/IG Company, 313

Standard Oil Company, 161, 230, 232–233, 315

Standard Oil of California, 333, 335

Standard Oil of New Jersey, 313–314, 333, 335

Standard Oil of New York, 333, 335

Stanford, Leland, 416

Stanley Steamers, 246

Starley, John K., 200

state capitalism, 432

state-owned enterprises (SOEs), in Korea, 374–375

Statue of Liberty, 168–169

Steagall, Henry B., 286

steam power. See First Industrial Revolution (steam power)

Steele, Osman, 62

steel industry, 162–163, 202, 217–218, 257

Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC), 299

Stephens, Alexander, 140

Stephenson, George, 91

Sterling, Ross, 334

Stettinius, Edward R., 239

Stevens, Edwin Augustus, 91

Stevens, John, 91–92

Stevens, Robert Livingston, 91

Stillman, James, 232

Stimson, Henry L., 323

stimulus programs, 454–455

stock market

crash of 1929, 269–270, 271

crash of 1987, 12

evolution after World War I, 254–255

stock ownership and financial-market capitalism, 437–439, 470

Strategic Materials Act, 308

streetcars, 208–209

Strong, Benjamin, 222

student loans, 476–477

suburbanization, 208–209, 341–342, 344–345

Suffolk Bank of Massachusetts, 167

Sumner, William Graham, 223

supply-side economics

deregulation and its effects, 386–391

growth of conservativism and, 376–380

Supreme Court. See also specific rulings

antitrust activism, 232–233

FDR and packing of, 294

National Industrial Recovery Act and, 10

“ruinous competition” and price-fixing, 215–216

Sussex, 239

Swan, Joseph, 194

Sweden, 371

Swift, Gustavus, 160

Switzerland, 371

Swope, Gerard, 259, 277, 289

Swope Plan, 277–278, 289

synthetic rubber, 312–314, 348

Szilard, Leo, 401, 402–403

Tabulating Machine Company, 407, 410

Taft, William Howard, 244

Taft-Harley Act (1947), 296, 353

Taiwan, 375, 377, 432

takeover artists, 366, 436

Taney, Roger, 115

Tarbell, Ida, 230, 314

Target, 437

tariffs

in 1920s, 266–267

Brandeis and New Freedom, 230

in Clay’s American System, 107

early twentieth century trade imbalances and, 262–267

Great Depression causes and, 271–272

Lincoln and protective, 9, 144–145

Lowell and textile manufacturing, 86

to pay for War of Independence debt, 38

in preindustrial United States, 35, 40–41, 43–46

tariff of 1870, 163

Tariff of Abominations and Nullification Crisis, 109–110

Taussig, Charles, 302

Taussig, Frank W., 146

taxes

conservative belief in benefits of cutting, 378–379, 457, 470

excise taxes, 35, 137–138, 305

financial transaction tax, proposed, 469

Hoover and Great Depression mistakes, 280

income taxes, 137–138, 230–231, 240–241, 325

redistribution of income and, 474–475

on retained earnings, 299

social insurance paid from, in Next American Economy, 475–477

tax subsidies and, 442, 475

Tea Party movement, 449

telecommunications, deregulation of, 382

telegraph industry, 93–94, 135, 159, 193

telephone industry, 250–251, 347

television, 207–208, 348

Tellier, Charles, 203

Temporary National Economic Committee (TNEC), 300

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), 337–338, 379–380, 404

Terman, Frederick, 416

Tesla, Nikola, 9, 192–193, 196

Texaco, 333, 335

Texas, 317–318, 334–335, 336

Texas Instruments, 318, 414

Texas Railroad Commission (TRC), 334, 381

textile manufacturing, 86–87, 120, 126–127

Thailand, 429

Thatcher, Margaret, 11, 386–387

Third American Republic, 5–6, 10–12, 336, 481

Third Industrial Revolution (information age), 270, 393–394, 453–454

banks and financial-market capitalism, 434–440

computer evolution, 407–409

globalization and current-account deficits, 423–434

Great Compression of incomes, 440–441

information technology, 399–400, 407–421

jet engines, 404–405

maldistribution of income and financial crisis, 441–450

nuclear power, 397–398, 402–404

space programs, 405–406

Thompson, Robert Ellis, 147

Thomson-Houston Company, 196, 197

Thornton, William, 97

Thurow, Lester, 359

Timber and Stone Act, 178

Timber Culture Act (1873), 178

Time, 399

time capsules, 395–396

Times (London), 133

time zones, railroads and, 163

tires, 201–202

Tizard, Henry, 403

Tobin tax, 469

Todd, Lyman Beecher, 140

Tomkins Square Riot, 165

Tom Thumb, 93

Tousard, Louis de, 96

township and village enterprises (TVEs), in China, 431

trade. See also current-account deficits

Foreign Trade Zone 49 and government-private cooperation, 452–453

NIRA and, 295

trade associations during World War I, 245–246

Trade Boards Act of 1909 (England), 290

transatlantic telegraph cable, 94

transcontinental railroad, 143–144, 151–153

Transportation Act (1920), 154

Travelers Insurance, 386

Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (Maxwell), 190

Treaty of the Six Nations, 159

Treaty of Wang Hiya, 65

Trevithick, Richard, 91

Trollope, Frances, 54

Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), 447

trucking, deregulation of, 382

Truman, Harry S., 239, 314, 332, 336, 346, 369, 402

Tugwell, Rexford, 279–280, 299, 302

Turbinia (ship), 199

Turkey, 369

Turner, Frederick Jackson, 178

Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), 210, 233

Tweed, William “Boss,” 158

typewriters, 210

Underwood Tariff Act (1913), 230

unemployment

Cold War and trade concessions to allies, 369

in Great Depression, 270, 281, 308

in Great Recession, 448–449

unemployment insurance, 257, 361, 454

in Volcker recession, 386–388

in World War II, 320

Union Pacific Railroad, 74, 143, 151–153, 155–156, 158

unit banks, 116–167, 218–221, 229, 231, 254, 286

United Auto Workers (UAW), 299, 353

United Farm Workers, 358

United Mine Workers, 321

United States Steel Corporation, 161

United States v. Butler, 346

United States v. Darby, 294

United Steel, 217

UNIVAC, 413

Untermyer, Samuel, 231

UPS, 437

urban areas, nineteenth century changes in, 208–211

US Agency for International Development (USAID), 374

US Rubber, 349

USS Merrimack, 137

USS Monitor, 137

US Steel, 216, 220, 226, 233, 299, 327

utilities, deregulation of, 364–365, 384–385

Vail, Alfred, 94

value-added tax (VAT), 476

Van Buren, Martin, 109, 111, 113, 116

Van Depoele, Charles, 208

Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 89–90, 157–158

Vanderbilt, William, 154

Vanderbilt, William H., 220

Vanderlip, Frank A., 222–223, 243

Van Deusen, James, 61

Vanity Fair, 77–78

Van Rensselaer, Martha Schuyler, 61

Van Rensselaer, Stephen III, 49, 60–61, 62

Van Rensselaer, Stephen IV, 62

Van Rensselaer, William, 62

Veblen, Thorstein, 350, 351

venture capital, 418

Verein fur Sozialwissenschaft, 147

Virginia

canals and, 55

infrastructure in, 121

War of Independence debts and, 29, 33–34

Washington and, 40, 87–89

Volcker, Paul, 386–387

Volta, Alessandro, 190

Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), 359

von Mises, Ludwig, 288–289

Voting Rights Act (1965), 357

Wachovia Bank, 67–68

Wadsworth, Decius, 96

wages. See also maldistribution of income

economic growth after World War I and, 256–257

Great Depression and, 278–279, 290–291

NIRA and minimum, 295

Wagner, Herbert, 405

Wagner, Robert, 288

Wagner Act, 295–296

Wallace, Henry, 284

Wall Street Journal, 378

Walmart, 425–426, 437

Walpole, Robert, 33

Walsh, Frank P., 244

Walter, Rosalind Palmer, 322

Walton, Sam and Bud, 425

Wanniski, Jude, 271

War Assets Administration, 348

Warburg, Paul M., 222

Wardman, Ervin, 164

War Emergency Pipelines, Inc., 316

War Finance Corporation, 243, 245, 361

War Industries Board (WIB), 241–243, 245, 277, 288, 289

War of 1812, 43, 47, 61, 70–71, 106

War of Independence

financing and debts of, 26–30

origins of, 22, 26

War on Poverty, 358–359

War Production Board, 310, 311

Warren, Thomas, 97

War Resources Board, 308

Washington, DC, compromises on locating US capital, 34

Washington, George, 2, 203, 481–482

Articles of Confederation, 30

Hamilton and manufacturing, 31, 40

on military preparedness, 464

slavery and, 57–60

tariffs and, 35

Washington, Martha, 59–60

Washington Mutual, 427, 434

Watson, Thomas Jr., 413–414

Watson, Thomas Sr., 408–413

Watt, James, 6, 79, 81, 84, 191

Wayland, Francis, 104

“Wealth” (Carnegie), 13

Wealth of Nations, The (Smith), 24, 52, 103–104

Webb-Pomerene Act (1918), 258

Webster, Daniel, 114, 127, 201

Weed Sewing Machine Company, 97

Welch, Jack, 436

welfare capitalism, 86, 260–261, 318, 441–442

welfare programs, success of, 359

welfare statism, 442

Wells, David Ames, 214–215

West, and closing of frontier, 177–178

Western Union, 159, 193

West Germany, 331–332, 428–429

Westinghouse, George, 196–197

Westinghouse Corporation, 196–199, 207, 246, 395–396, 404

whaling industry, 76–78

Wharton, Joseph, 146–147

Wharton School of Finance and Economy, 147

Wheatstone, Charles, 190

Whitney, Asa, 155

Whitney, Eli, 96, 123

Whitney, Henry, 209

Whittle, Frank, 404–405

Wiener, Norbert, 408

Wigfall, Louis T., 133

Wilbur, Ray Lyman, 257

Wilcocks, Benjamin Chew, 64

Wilkinson, Lewis, 97

William II, Kaiser, 237

Williams, Lee G., 358

Willing, Charles, 26

Willing, Thomas, 26–27, 29

Wilson, Charles Erwin “Engine Charlie,” 351, 367, 426

Wilson, Woodrow, 10, 182, 206, 222

Fourteen Points, 239

money trust and, 231

New Freedom and, 228–229

World War I and, 235, 238–239, 240, 241, 244

Wingner, Eugene, 402–403

Wither Bound? (F. Roosevelt), 401–402

women, in World War II workforce, 322–323

Wood, Fernando, 127

Woodward, Henry, 194

Woolens Act, 24

Woolworth, Frank W., 253

Works Financing (“Spend-Lend”) Bill, 302, 303

Works Projects Administration, 284, 304

World Bank, 368

World War I, 235–255

aviation and, 205

debt repayment, 264, 276–277

financing of, 239–241

industrial and retail growth after, 246–255

New Deal agencies and, 289

origins of, 236–239

private-government cooperation and, 241–246

World War II

end of, 397

financing of, 325–328

industrial and economic growth during, 307–320

privatization of property after,348

social changes and, 320–325

Wozniak, Steve, 417

W. R. Grace, 366

Wright, Orville and Wilbur, 3, 204

Wright Aeronautical Corporation,3–4

Wu Ping-chien (Houqua), 63, 64–65

Wyoming Coal and Mining Company, 156

XIT Ranch, 177

yellow journalism, 164

Youmans, Edward Livingston, 223

Young, Owen D., 264, 265, 302

Zandi, Mark, 448

Zapata Off-Shore, 418

Zimmerman, Arthur, 239

Zimmerman telegram, 239

Zukor, Adolf, 252

Zworykin, Vladimir, 208