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Enterprise and Society 2009 10(1):90-97; doi:10.1093/es/khn119
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

The Political Economy of American Transportation

Mark Rose

MARK H. ROSE is a professor of history at Florida Atlantic University, and an associate editor of Enterprise & Society. He is the president of the Business History Conference for 2008–2009. Contact information: Department of History, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431. E-mail: mrose@fau.edu

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Throughout its history, the free market system has been held back, not so much by its own economic deficiencies as Marxists would have it, but because of its reliance on political goodwill for its infrastructure.

Economists Raghuram R. Rajan and Luigi Zingales, 2004

... the government's role will be limited and temporary. And they will make clear that these measures are not intended to take over the free market, but to preserve it.

President George W. Bush, 2008

... few Americans realize just how deeply, continuously, and thoroughly the American government has actively supported and encouraged economic growth.

Historian Colleen Dunlavy, 2008

Too often Americans, their politicians, policy professionals, and even scholars, become caught up in rhetoric about government regulation of business. At some point in a simpler past, many believe, the "government" kept its hands off of the economy and business and allowed markets to flourish, unfettered by regulations . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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