The Rise of the Public Authority: Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century America - Couverture souple

Radford, Gail

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 022603772X ISBN 13 : 9780226037721

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2013

Synopsis

In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies and meeting the infrastructure needs of a newly urban, industrial nation. Stymied by legal and financial barriers, they created a new class of quasi-public agencies called public authorities. Today these entities operate at all levels of government, and range from tiny operations like the Springfield Parking Authority in Massachusetts, which runs thirteen parking lots and garages, to mammoth enterprises like the Tennessee Valley Authority, with nearly twelve billion dollars in revenues each year.

In The Rise of the Public Authority, Gail Radford recounts the history of these inscrutable agencies, examining how and why they were established, the varied forms they have taken, and how these pervasive but elusive mechanisms have molded our economy and politics over the past hundred years.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Gail Radford isassociate professor of history at the University at Buffalo.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 022603772X
• ISBN 13: 9780226037721
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 228
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