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The Governmental Habit Redux: Economic Controls from Colonial Times to the Present
By (Author) Jonathan R.T. Hughes
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
338.973
Hardback
282
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
567g
To the distinguished economic historian Jonathan Hughes, the ambiguous outcomes of attempted deregulation signal America's urgent need to probe the origins of our vast and chaotic maze of government economic controls. Why do government restrictions on the economy continue to proliferate, in spite of avowed efforts to allow the market a freer rein