Need help on an Essay ?

[Revolution0918]

one of my essay ?'s is how government stayed out of big business in the late 19th century, yet i would have to argue that they did not do this at all....anyone have some good points that i can argue ?

[justinc.1089]

Good luck, I thought that was a golden era for government growth lol. I have no idea how to help you with that.

[Dionysus]

one of my essay ?'s is how government stayed out of big business in the late 19th century, yet i would have to argue that they did not do this at all....anyone have some good points that i can argue ?

You're so missing out on real learning having to waste your time on that crap.

[Revolution0918]

could not agree more......ive been sitting here the whole time instead of studying ive been reading The Prince...just finished, and about 10 pages into Economic Science and the Austrian Method lol not helpin me graduate tho......

[Dreamofunity]

http://search.mises.org/search?q=19th%20century&site=default_collection

"19th century" - Try other searches as well.

[cswake]

Get this book:
http://books.google.com/books?id=AeipoDpmlSAC&dq=crisis+and+leviathan&ei=Gy3ASsD7LJmSywS1o7y3Dw

Chapter Five talks about the post-Civil War era. Provides multiple examples of interactions between the Federal Government and businesses. (Railroads and agriculture were the ones you would focus on) Here's a small paragraph that sums up most of the second half of the 19th century:


For the most part the government remained serenely indifferent to the radical winds that swirled around it. Local governments provided police, courts, schools, streets and roads some of the larger cities added sewers and public water works. The federal government paid veterans' pensions and interest on the Civil War debt; maintained a minuscule military establishment; delivered mail; chipped away the public domain by various giveaways and sales; kept tariffs high and levied a few excise taxes; and pursed a deflationary monetary policy... Otherwise, governments did little of much consequence or expense. (82)

As Justin said, the federal government expanded heavily, captured best by the Chapter's title: "Crisis Under the Old Regime, 1893-1896".

On a side note, I had highlighted a few sentences on the next page because people back then understood the message Dr. Paul is trying to share:

James Bryce, perhaps the most perspicacious foreign observer of American society in the late nineteenth century, observed that the general public cherished "certain dogmas or maxims" about political, legal, and economic matters. One of the dogmas was the conviction that certain rights of the individual, such as the "right to the enjoyment of what he has earned ... are primordial and sacred." Moreover, all governmental authorities "ought to be strictly limited" and "the less government the better .. The functions of government must be kept at their minimum." ... Most people resisted radical pleas for Bigger Government because they believed that such a government would be not only counterproductive but immoral.

[Imperial]

Except for I think one railroad owned and financed by James Hill I think his name was, every major transcontinental railroad was subsidized by the federal govt.

Railroads often went bankrupt throughout the second half of the nineteenth century...

Federal govt intervened and didn't let people unionize, like under Hayes and Cleveland [Haymarket Square anybody?]

[emazur]

I scanned a few pages from G. Edward Griffin's "The Creature from Jekyll Island" for you. Notice on the first page it states that we were in a halfway house towards central banking, and take a look at the effects on banks, businesses and the economy
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[Conza88]

could not agree more......ive been sitting here the whole time instead of studying ive been reading The Prince...just finished, and about 10 pages into Economic Science and the Austrian Method lol not helpin me graduate tho......

:D ! You're on your way. :)