In General,when Were Transportation and Communications Costs Significant Barriers to Developing

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In general,when were transportation and communications costs significant barriers to developing an integrated internal market system in the U.S.? Why did these costs vary between North and South? Between East and West? What broke down these barriers?

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Definitions:

Monetary Neutrality

The theory that changes in the money supply only affect nominal variables (like prices) and not real variables (like output) in the long run.

Phillips Curve

An economic concept depicting an inverse relationship between the rate of unemployment and the rate of inflation in an economy over time.

Friedman and Phelps

Refers to the contributions of Milton Friedman and Edmund Phelps in economics, particularly their work on the natural rate of unemployment and the expectations-augmented Phillips Curve, disputing the long-term trade-off between inflation and unemployment.

Government Expenditures

The total amount of money spent by the government on goods, services, and public projects.