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Concrete Economics
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Concrete Economics

by Stephen S. Cohen, J. Bradford DeLong
February 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 40m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Alexander Hamilton Designs America

There is an establishment folk wisdom about American history. It is, somehow, never written down in compressed form. So let us try to spell it out:

America is and has always been Jeffersonian. It is and has been a small-government laissez-faire country, exalting its pioneers, its entrepreneurs, and its small businesses, and deeply distrustful of any sort of “interference” by the government in the economy. In its DNA, America is a country for the self-sufficient and self-reliant, running or at least aspiring to run their own small businesses. Especially suspicious of big government, it greatly prefers a hamstrung ...

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