American Decades
Publications
Adolf A. Berle, The 20th Century American Capitalist Revolution (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1954);
Edward Bursk, Donald T. Clark, and Ralph W. Hidy, The World of Business (New York; Simon & Schuster, 1962);
Richard Caves, American Industry: Structure, Conduct, Performance (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1964);
Caves, Essays in Positive Economics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953);
Peter F. Drucker, The New Society (New York: Harper, 1950);
Marriner S. Eccles, Beckoning Frontiers (New York: Knopf, 1951);
Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962);
John K. Galbraith, The Affluent Society (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958);
Galbraith, American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956);
Arthur J. Goldberg,...
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1950's Business and the Economy
- Overview
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Topics in the News
- Advertising in the 1950s
- The AFL-CIO
- Air Travel in the 1950s
- Alcoa, Aluminum, and the End of a Monopoly
- Bank of America Leads a Financial Expansion
- Big vs. Small Businesses
- Creating the Computer
- Credit, Inflation, and Price Controls
- Energy
- Farming in the 1950s
- Housing in the 1950s
- Labor in the 1950s
- The Merger Wave
- The Military-Industrial Complex
- The National Highway Act and the Auto Industry
- The Railroad and its Decline
- Shopping Malls
- The Stock Market and Investment Trends
- The Sun Belt
- The Television Industry
- The Turbulent Teamsters
- Headline Makers
- People in the News
- Deaths
- Publications
- Important Events in Business and the Economy, 1950–1959
