What economic ideas drove events during the harding and coolidge administrations

Both pertained to the Republican party and supported and implemented laisez-faire economic measures, that consisted on free functioning of the markets with minimum goverment interventionism. Markets alone, would produce the most efficent outcomes, according to his viewpoint. Therefore, the policies introduced by their governments, involved minimum regulation for businesses, and for the economic activity in general.

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a historian researching the immigration policies of the early 1900s would expect a source written today,rather than in 1910 to :

( a ) be more interested in objective data and statistics.

d: social contract theory