The Fiscal Reform Of New York Bureau Of Municipal Research

After the mid-19th century, the influence of liberal capitalism and technological progress by the U.S. economy quickly dispersed from the original kind of rapid economic development of regional markets into a national market economy, and with an uncertain closely linked to international markets. Meanwhile, the manufacturing industry to achieve rapid industrialization, the United States from an agrarian society into an industrial society. And market development and industrialization is accompanied by sustained and rapid economic growth in the19th century, the United States has been a leader in industrial countries, leapt to the forefront of the capitalist world power, is the richest country on Earth. In1895, the famous American statistician Michael G·Munhall said the U.S." has by far the world’s most massive economic power." By the early20th century, the total U.S. manufacturing output than the sum of the UK, Germany and France, the three countries.In the late19th century, the U.S. economy and society has undergone fundamental changes, but the state governance structure remains essentially built up17th and18th centuries, not only can not effectively avoid the problems caused by economic and social change, and increasingly become part of the problem1893-1897recession to boom reform trends prevalent red pieces, almost all of the sectors are concerned about the problems during the Depression, the progressive movement to take the development of their own strength. We can say that American society in the late19th century, a critical " crossroads." Americans are increasingly aware of the time, this is a hopeful times, it was full of problems and challenges of the times. Progressive reformers such as Theodore Roosevelt·very clearly aware of:" Without reform, the result is either an alternative......anarchism, or is the power of wealthy industrialists continue to suppress the growing democracy." It is in this concern, the Progressive Era reformers began to think about the causes of a variety of holistic social, economic and political problems, the reconstruction of national governance systems to deal with the challenges of economic and social changes of formation. The establishment and development of New York Municipal Institute for American Progress Movement to promote reform, especially fiscal reform to play a crucial role.