An historian's occasional, random thoughts on the state of capitalism or on aspects of life in an Upper Midwestern university town. Often stimulated by a morning's read of the newspapers. These are actually notes to myself that replace my ("so last century") clippings files, but you're welcome to listen in.
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Sunday, February 27, 2011
The life and times of "free enterprise"
The term "free enterprise" is clearly a WWII-Cold War product, at least according to Google's Ngram (searching English-language books published in the US, no smoothing). The results show a very rapid rise during the war and a peak ca. 1945. In British English-language publications, interestingly, use of the term peaked about the same time but it enjoyed a resurgence in the 1980s that was not paralleled in the US.
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