Microeconomics: United States Economics
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published 28/05/2008
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Most people I know have iPods, drive high-horsepower automobiles with complex inner workings, and pay little attention to newspaper articles regarding oil, stocks, and debt. First off, nobody wants to think about the avalanche amount of debt thats accumulating and what it can do to an economy and second, its just a safely lodged belief that the United States is the most powerful country in the world and will always beregardless of what the current economy seems to predict. In any case, this kind of confidence in American thought didnt sprout overnight; its the product of over three hundred years of economic growth that put this nation at the forefront of the world stage
Table of Contents
- America's Confidence.
- The United States had very humble beginnings.
- Technological advancements such as Eli Whitney's cotton gin made farming more efficient and productive.
- Difference in the economy between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- A significant outcome of the North winning the Civil War in 1865.
- The mixed economy of businesses and government is crucial.
- If the Middle East were to cut the country off of oil United States economy would suffer again, in a similar fashion.
