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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 |
