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The American School, also known as the "National System", represents three different yet related constructs in politics, policy and philosophy. It was the American policy from the 1860s to the 1970s, waxing and waning in actual degrees and details of implementation. Historian Michael Lind describes it as a coherent applied economic philosophy with logical and conceptual relationships with other economic ideas.
It is the macroeconomic philosophy that dominated United States national policies from the time of the American Civil War until the mid-twentieth century. Closely related to mercantilism, it can be seen as contrary to classical economics. It consisted of these three core policies:
- protecting industry through selective high tariffs (especially 1861–1932) and through subsidies (especially 1932–70)
- government investments in infrastructure creating targeted internal improvements (especially in transportation)
- a national bank with policies that promote the growth of productive enterprises rather than speculation.
It is a capitalist economic school based on the Hamiltonian economic program. The American School of capitalism was intended to allow the United States to become economically independent and nationally self-sufficient.
The American School's key elements were promoted by John Q. Adams and his National Republican Party, Henry Clay and the Whig Party, and Abraham Lincoln through the early Republican Party which embraced, implemented, and maintained this economic system.
During its American System period the United States grew into the largest economy in the world with the highest standard of living, surpassing the British Empire by the 1880s.
American School may refer to:
Schools- American international schools
- Home Study, Inc. dba American Schools
- American School of Correspondence
- American School (economics)
- American Schools and Hospitals Abroad
- Corporación Educativa American School
- ASF Mexico (American School in Mexico City)
- Escuela Americana El Salvador (American School El Salvador)
- American School of Tegucigalpa
- American School for the Deaf
- The American School (novel), 1954 book by Nobuo Kojima
American School is an international school in David, Chiriquí. It serves levels PreKindergarten through Grade 12.
American School is an American international school in Sana'a, Yemen. It serves pre-school through grade 12. It was established in 1995, making it the first English medium school accredited by Yemeni authorities.
Usage examples of "american school".
He couldn't have put that question so jeeringly fifty years ago, of course, before the founding of the first wholly American school of painting, Abstract Expressionism, and the deification in particular of Jack the Dripper, Jackson Pollock, who also couldn't draw for sour apples.
While Bancroft's improved methods of research among original authorities almost entitle him to be called the founder of the new American school of historical writing, yet the best critics do not to-day consider his work scientific.
Soviet school biology texts in the early 1960s had as little about chromosomes and classical genetics as many American school biology texts have about evolution today.
They went to Japanese school every day after American school was over.
My problems were more with the grading system and all the rules followed by the American school.
They spent tax dollars to build a model United Nations just what every American school needs.
So the mainstay of the New Inquisition is the parish-school, and its deadliest enemy is the American school system.