The economic consequences of U.S. mobilization for the Second World War
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Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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Central - Adult Nonfiction | 330.973 FIELD | Checked Out | June 2, 2024 |
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Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2022.
Format
Book
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xii, 453 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"Many believe that despite its destructive character, war ultimately boosts long-term economic growth. For the United States this view is often supported by appeal to the experience of the Second World War, understood as a triumph of both production and productivity. Alexander Field shows that between 1941 and 1945 manufacturing productivity actually declined, depressed by changes in the output mix and resource shocks from enemy action, including curtailed access to natural rubber and, on the Eastern Seaboard, petroleum. The war forced a shift away from producing goods in which the country had a great deal of experience toward those in which it had little. Learning by doing was only a partial counterbalance to the intermittent idleness and input hoarding that characterized a shortage economy and dragged down productivity. The conflict distorted human and physical capital accumulation, and once it ended, America stopped producing most of the new goods. The war temporarily shut down basic scientific research and the ongoing development of civilian goods. U.S. world economic dominance in 1948, Field shows, was due less to the experience of making war goods and more to the country's productive potential in 1941."--,Amazon.com.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Field, A. J. (2022). The economic consequences of U.S. mobilization for the Second World War . Yale University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Field, Alexander J.. 2022. The Economic Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for the Second World War. Yale University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Field, Alexander J.. The Economic Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for the Second World War Yale University Press, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Field, Alexander J.. The Economic Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for the Second World War Yale University Press, 2022.
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