- List of Figures* and Tables**
- Preface
- Part I. Explaining American State Intervention
- 1. The Farmers’ Tour
- 2. Comparing Capitalisms
- 3. A Demand-Side Theory of Comparative Political Economy
- Part II. The Agrarian Regulation of Taxation
- 4. The Non-History of National Sales Tax
- 5. The Land of Too Much
- 6. Progressive Taxation and the Welfare State
- Part III. The Agrarian Regulation of Finance
- 7. American Adversarial Regulation
- 8. The Democratization of Credit
- 9. The Credit/Welfare State Trade-Off
- Part IV. Conclusion
- 10. American Mortgage Keynesianism: Summary and Policy Implications
- Notes
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- * Figures:
- 2.1 Pre-tax and transfer inequality and post-tax and transfer inequality
- 3.1 Index of industrial production, 1870–1912
- 3.2 Index of agricultural output, 1869–1950
- 3.3 Index of manufacturing output, 1869–1941
- 3.4 Total GDP, 1820–1924
- 3.5 Wholesale commodity price index, 1848–1943
- 3.6 U.S. mortgage interest rates, 1869–1885
- 3.7 Index of agricultural output, 1889–1929
- 3.8 “How to see our wheat”
- 7.1 Restrictiveness of banking regulation before 1999
- 8.1 Index of activity in the building industry, 1925–1929 and 1932
- 10.1 Argument of the book
- ** Tables:
- 1.1 The United States compared to other industrialized countries
- 3.1 GDP per capita
- 4.1 Regional voting on sales tax in Congress, November 3 and 4, 1921, Republicans only
- 4.2 Regional preferences for sales tax in Congress, 1932
- 8.1 Regional voting on McFadden Act in House of Representatives, February 4, 1926
- 9.1 The demand for credit, 1980–2005
- 9.2 The effect of deregulation on credit for different levels of social spending
