Toward a Planned Society: From Roosevelt to NixonOxford University Press, 22 de gen. 1976 - 376 pàgines Graham here examines the beginnings and development of national growth policies and machinery in the United States from the New Deal to the Nixon administration. |
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Pàgina xiii
... tion to locating these strategic points of contact — to which a later generation would only add population size — Franklin Roosevelt and the New Dealers began work on some of the institutional innovations necessary to provide a planning ...
... tion to locating these strategic points of contact — to which a later generation would only add population size — Franklin Roosevelt and the New Dealers began work on some of the institutional innovations necessary to provide a planning ...
Pàgina 13
... tion , and felt that important opportunities had been lost to advance social justice . But by 1921 Wilson was out of office , re- placed by a president even less interested in active government . Through the 1920s American national ...
... tion , and felt that important opportunities had been lost to advance social justice . But by 1921 Wilson was out of office , re- placed by a president even less interested in active government . Through the 1920s American national ...
Pàgina 16
... tion set up on a different theory than any permanent organiza- tion we now know .. so that the government would possess the capacity to act not as a " policeman .. but a cooperator , an adjuster , a friend . " 4 He envisioned a planning ...
... tion set up on a different theory than any permanent organiza- tion we now know .. so that the government would possess the capacity to act not as a " policeman .. but a cooperator , an adjuster , a friend . " 4 He envisioned a planning ...
Pàgina 20
... tion , his pragmatism , his instinct to compromise now for a gain later . Beyond being a Christian and a Democrat , to which he gladly confessed , Roosevelt was something of a nut about con- servation , was strongly biased toward rural ...
... tion , his pragmatism , his instinct to compromise now for a gain later . Beyond being a Christian and a Democrat , to which he gladly confessed , Roosevelt was something of a nut about con- servation , was strongly biased toward rural ...
Pàgina 21
... tion , would flourish in public debate ( to the infinite fright of conservatives ) , and in the first few months would come close to being the new administration's central strategy . 7 There was an interval between FDR's election and ...
... tion , would flourish in public debate ( to the infinite fright of conservatives ) , and in the first few months would come close to being the new administration's central strategy . 7 There was an interval between FDR's election and ...
Continguts
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From Pearl Harbor to the Employment Act | 69 |
From the Employment Act to the 1960s | 91 |
The Democrats 19611969 | 126 |
Richard Nixon 19691974 | 188 |
Crossroads | 264 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 89 - ... in a manner calculated to foster and promote free competitive enterprise and the general welfare, conditions under which there will be afforded useful employment opportunities, including self-employment, for those able, willing, and seeking to work, and to promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power.
Pàgina 89 - Congress hereby declares that it is the continuing policy and responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable means consistent with its needs and obligations and other essential considerations of national policy, with the assistance and cooperation of industry, agriculture, labor, and State and local governments, to coordinate and utilize all its plans, functions, and resources for the purpose of creating and maintaining, in a manner calculated to foster...
Pàgina ix - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Pàgina 320 - Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with evergrowing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watch-word be order and your beacon beauty.
Pàgina 202 - The violent and decayed central cities of our great metropolitan complexes are the most conspicuous area of failure in American life today.
Pàgina 20 - Many hard lessons have taught us the human waste that results from lack of planning. Here and there a few wise cities and counties have looked ahead and planned. But our Nation has "just grown.
Pàgina 151 - I cannot imagine anything more emphatically a subject that is not a proper political or governmental activity or function or responsibility.
Pàgina 197 - ... manner (as when the great agricultural migrations from the rural South were allowed to take place with no adjustment or relocation arrangements whatever). What we have never had is a policy : coherent, consistent positions as to what the National Government would hope to see happen ; what it will encourage, what it will discourage.
Pàgina 87 - In order to assist industry, agriculture, labor, and State and local governments in achieving continuing full employment, it is the responsibility of the Federal Government to pursue such consistent and openly arrived at economic policies and programs...
Referències a aquest llibre
Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government Robert Higgs Previsualització no disponible - 1987 |