LEADER 04843nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910780030103321 005 20230911224006.0 010 $a0-8018-7589-7 035 $a(CKB)111056486621516 035 $a(EBL)3318172 035 $a(OCoLC)923191470 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000226885 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11200537 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000226885 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10263194 035 $a(PQKB)10433949 035 $a(OCoLC)51504370 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse20127 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3318172 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10021646 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3318172 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486621516 100 $a20020207d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe price of progress $epublic services, taxation, and the American corporate state, 1877 to 1929 /$fR. Rudy Higgens-Evenson 210 1$aBaltimore :$cJohns Hopkins University Press,$d2003. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 168 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aReconfiguring American political history 311 0 $a0-8018-7054-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCompromise, corruption, and confrontation : tax reform in the 1870s -- Progress, bit by bit : school and insane asylum spending, 1880 to 1900 -- From charter-mongering to catching corporate freeloaders : corporation taxes, 1880-1907 -- The second era of internal improvements : transportation spending, 1890 to 1929 -- Consent, control, and centralization : school and hospital spending, 1900 to 1929 -- Giants of history : income and gasoline taxation, 1910 to 1929 -- The test of democracy : controlling spending in the corporate state, 1907 to 1929. 330 $aBetween the Civil War and the Great Depression, twin revolutions swept through American business and government. In business, large corporations came to dominate entire sectors and markets. In government, new services and agencies, especially at the city and state levels, sprang up to ameliorate a broad spectrum of social problems. In The Price of Progress, R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson offers a fresh analysis of the relationship between those two revolutions. Using previously unexploited data from the annual reports of state treasurers and comptrollers, he provides a detailed, empirical assessment of the goods and services provided to citizens, as well as the resources extracted from them, by state governments during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Focusing on New York, Massachusetts, California, and Kansas, but including data on 13 other states, his comparative study suggests that the "corporate state" originated in tax policies designed to finance new and innovative government services. Business and government grew together in a surprising and complex fashion. In the late nineteenth century, services such as mental health care for the needy and free elementary education for all children created new strains on the states' old property tax systems. In order to pay for newly constructed state asylums and schools, states experimented for the first time with corporate taxation as a source of revenue, linking state revenues to the profitability of industries such as railroads and utilities. To control their tax bills, big businesses intensified lobbying efforts in state legislatures, captured important positions in state tax bureaus, and sponsored a variety of government-efficiency reform organizations. The unintended result of corporate taxation -- imposed to allow states to fulfill their responsibilities to their citizens -- was the creation of increasingly intimate ties between politicians, bureaucrats, corporate leaders, and progressive citizens. By the 1920s, a variety of "corporate states" had proliferated across the nation, each shaped by a particular mix of taxation and public services, each offering a case study in how the business of America, as President Calvin Coolidge put it, became business. 410 0$aReconfiguring American political history. 606 $aGovernment spending policy$zUnited States$xStates 606 $aTaxation$zUnited States$xStates$xHistory 606 $aCorporate state$zUnited States$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government 607 $aUnited States$xEconomic conditions 615 0$aGovernment spending policy$xStates. 615 0$aTaxation$xStates$xHistory. 615 0$aCorporate state$xHistory. 676 $a336.73/09/034 700 $aHiggens-Evenson$b R. Rudy$g(Ronald Rudy),$f1969-$01531121 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780030103321 996 $aThe price of progress$93776548 997 $aUNINA