The Progressive Era by Rothbard, Murray -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Foreword by Andrew P. Napolitano Introduction by Patrick Newman Preface 1. Railroads: The First Big Business and the Failure of the Cartels

1. Subsidizing the Railroads 2. The Rationale of Railroad Pricing 3. The Attempts to Form Cartels

2. Regulating the Railroads

1. The Drive for Regulation 2. Strengthening the Interstate Commerce Commission

3. Attempts at Monopoly in American Industry

1. America’s Industrial Revolution 2. The Petroleum Industry 3. Iron and Steel 4. Agricultural Machinery 5. The Sugar Trust 6. Overall Assessment

4. The Third Party System: Pietists vs. Liturgicals

1. The Third Party System 2. Pietists vs. Liturgicals: The Political Party Constituencies 3. Pietists vs. Liturgicals in the Midwest 4. Reform and the Drive for Prohibition

5. The Democratic Triumph of 1892

1. The Road to Democratic Triumph 2. The Republicans Regroup

A. The Retreat from Prohibition B. Restricting Immigration C. Pietism and Women’s Suffrage

6. 1896: The Collapse of the Third Party System and of Laissez-faire Politics

1. The First Collapse: 1894 2. The Final Collapse: 1896 3. The Transformation of the Parties

7. Theodore Roosevelt: The First Progressive, Part I

1. Financial Influence on Political Parties 2. T.R.: The Making of a Progressive 3. T.R. as President: The “Good” Trusts 4. T.R. as President: The “Bad” Trusts 5. The International Oil War

8. Theodore Roosevelt: The First Progressive, Part II

1. The Meat Packing Myth 2. Harvey W. Wiley and the Pure Food and Drug Act 3. Theodore Roosevelt and the Conservation Crusade

9. The National Civic Federation: Big Business Organized for Progressivism

1. The Origins: The Chicago Civic Federation 2. Organizing the NCF 3. The Clash over Unions 4. The Drive for Workmen’s Compensation Laws 5. Monopolizing Public Utilities 6. Regulating Industry 7. Allied Group: The American Association for Labor Legislation

10. The Progressive Era and the Family

A. Women’s Suffrage B. Eugenics and Birth Control

4. Gathered Together: Progressivism as a Political Party 5. Significance

11. Origins of the Welfare State in America

1. Why the Welfare State? 2. Yankee Postmillennial Pietism 3. Yankee Women: The Driving Force 4. Progressives and the Gradual Secularization of Postmillennial Pietism: Ely, Dewey, and Commons 5. Yankee Women Progressives 6. The New Deal 7. The Rockefellers and Social Security

12. War Collectivism in World War I

1. Big Business and War Collectivism 2. Intellectuals and the Legacy of War Collectivism 3. The Drive to Prolong War Collectivism

13. World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals

1. Introduction 2. Pietism and Prohibition 3. Women at War and at the Polls 4. Saving Our Boys from Alcohol and Vice 5. The New Republic Collectivists 6. Economics in Service of the State: The Empiricism of Richard T. Ely 7. Economics in Service of the State: Government and Statistics Appendix: Toward the Centralization of Science: The National Research Council

14. The Federal Reserve as a Cartelization Device: The Early Years, 1913–1930

1. The Origins of the Federal Reserve: The Dissatisfaction of New York Bankers 2. The Road to the Federal Reserve 3. The Structure of the Federal Reserve 4. The Personnel of the Federal Reserve 5. The Federal Reserve and World War I 6. Internationalizing the Cartel 7. Britain and the Gold Exchange Standard 8. Open-Market Purchases in the 1920s 9. Creating the Acceptance Market 10. From Boom to Depression 11. Summary

15. Herbert Hoover and the Myth of Laissez-Faire

1. Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce 2. Herbert Hoover Fights the Great Depression

Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects