List of Figures* and Tables**
Preface
Part I. Explaining American State Intervention
1. The Farmers’ Tour
2. Comparing Capitalisms
3. A Demand-Side Theory of Comparative Political Economy
Part II. The Agrarian Regulation of Taxation
4. The Non-History of National Sales Tax
5. The Land of Too Much
6. Progressive Taxation and the Welfare State
Part III. The Agrarian Regulation of Finance
7. American Adversarial Regulation
8. The Democratization of Credit
9. The Credit/Welfare State Trade-Off
Part IV. Conclusion
10. American Mortgage Keynesianism: Summary and Policy Implications
Notes
References
Acknowledgments
Index
* Figures:
2.1 Pre-tax and transfer inequality and post-tax and transfer inequality
3.1 Index of industrial production, 1870–1912
3.2 Index of agricultural output, 1869–1950
3.3 Index of manufacturing output, 1869–1941
3.4 Total GDP, 1820–1924
3.5 Wholesale commodity price index, 1848–1943
3.6 U.S. mortgage interest rates, 1869–1885
3.7 Index of agricultural output, 1889–1929
3.8 “How to see our wheat”
7.1 Restrictiveness of banking regulation before 1999
8.1 Index of activity in the building industry, 1925–1929 and 1932
10.1 Argument of the book
** Tables:
1.1 The United States compared to other industrialized countries
3.1 GDP per capita
4.1 Regional voting on sales tax in Congress, November 3 and 4, 1921, Republicans only
4.2 Regional preferences for sales tax in Congress, 1932
8.1 Regional voting on McFadden Act in House of Representatives, February 4, 1926
9.1 The demand for credit, 1980–2005
9.2 The effect of deregulation on credit for different levels of social spending