The Ledger
Fall 2007
Resources: Coping with Economic Change
Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction
- “The Father of Creative Destruction”
Frank Rose, Wired, March 2002
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.03/schumpeter.html - “Biography of Joseph Alois Schumpeter”
The Library of Economics and Liberty
http://www.econlib.org/Library/Enc/bios/Schumpeter.html - Robert Solow on Joseph Schumpeter
Economist’s View, May 17, 2007
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2007/05/robert_solow_on.html
Industrial Quincy
- “Quincy Shipyard Launches First Nuclear
Powered Cruiser”
http://www.massmoments.org/index.cfm?mid=205 - “A History of Shipbuilding at Fore River”
Anthony F. Sarcone and Lawrence S. Rines
http://www.thomascranelibrary.org/shipbuildingheritage/history/history.htm - “Quincy’s Granite Legacy”
http://www.thomascranelibrary.org/legacy/grant.htm - Quincy Historical Society
http://www.quincyhistory.org
Highways, Air Conditioning, Shopping Malls, and Public Spaces
- “Highway History”
Federal Highway Administration web site
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/history.htm
The interstate highway system has been called the greatest public works program in U.S. history. - “Route 128 Opens Boston’s High Tech Age”
Mass Moments web site
http://www.massmoments.com/index.cfm?mid=246
The construction of Route 128, the first multilane beltway around Boston, had a major impact on downtown Quincy. - “The 20 Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century”
The National Academy of Engineering web site
http://www.greatachievements.org - “How Air Conditioning Changed America”
The Old House Web
http://www.oldhouseweb.com/stories/Detailed/725.shtml - “Keeping Things Cool: Air Conditioning in the Modern World”
Susanna Robbins, (originally appeared in Organization of American Historians Magazine of History, October 18, 2003), Organization of American Historians web site
http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/sunbelt/robbins.html - “The End of the Long Hot Summer: The Air
Conditioner and Southern Culture”
Raymond Arsenault, (originally appeared in The Journal of Southern History, November 1984), JSTOR– Journal Storage web site
http://www.jstor.org
Use the Search function, type in "air conditioning." - “Shopping Mall History”
American Studies Department, Eastern Connecticut State University
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/amerst/MallsHistory.htm - “Great Public Spaces”
Project for Public Spaces web site
http://www.pps.org/great_public_spaces
Moving to the Suburbs
- “Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb”
Peter Bacon Hales, Art History Department, University of Illinois at Chicago
http://tigger.uic.edu/~pbhales/Levittown
Quincy: The Cradle of American Roadside Culture
- Three retrospectives on Howard Johnson’s
http://www.slamtrak.com/hojo2003/index.htm – Check out the illustrations!
http://www.massmoments.com/index.cfm?mid=273
http://www.roadsidefans.com/hojo.html
- Two brief histories of the Dunkin’ Donuts chain,
which got its start in Quincy.
https://www.dunkindonuts.com/aboutus/company/History.aspx
http://www.massmoments.com/index.cfm?mid=273
Government’s Impact
- “Government’s 50 Greatest Endeavors”
The Brookings Institution web site
http://www.brook.edu/gs/cps/research/projects/50ge/endeavors/immigration.htm - “TVA: Electricity for All”
New Deal Network web site
http://newdeal.feri.org/tva/tva10.htm - “Effects of the Immigration Act of 1965 on Selected Population
Characteristics of Immigrants to the United States”
Charles B. Keeley, Western Michigan University, (originally appeared in Demography, May 1971),
JSTOR – Journal Storage web site
http://www.jstor.org/view/00703370/di973790/97p01223/0 - “1965 Immigration Law Changed Face of America”
National Public Radio web site
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5391395 - “Remembering the GI Bill”
Public Broadcasting System web site
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/military/july-dec00/gibill_7-4.html
