The menace of overproduction, its cause, extent, and cure. / edited by Scoville Hamlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamlin, Scoville, 1889-1951, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Overproduction.

Industries--Organization, control, etc.

Industries.

United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.

United States.

Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

x, 202 pages : diagrams ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : J. Wiley & sons, inc. London : Chapman & Hall, limited, 1930.

Contents:

Foreword, by S. Chase.

The cost of overproduction in the bituminous mining industry, by C. E. Bockus.

Overproduction in the oil industry, by E. P. Salisbury.

Factors in restoring equilibrium to the cotton textile industry, by H. P. Kendall.

A plan for organizing specific industry, the woolen and worsted piece goods and yarn division of the wool industry, by A. D. Whiteside.

Overproduction in the silk industry: its cause, effect, and cure, by T. B. Hill.

The rayon industry, by J. E. Bassill.

Overproduction in agriculture, by O. E. Baker.

Land wastage encourages overproduction, by J. G. Lipman.

Overproduction in the radio industry, by H. H. Frost.

Balanced prosperity, by C. F. Abbott.

America's place in world commerce a century ago and now, by H. Chalmers.

Advertising and higher standards of living, by P. H. Fassnacht.

Conservation of oil, national and international problem, by Sir H. Deterding.

The wastes resulting from business operations too small in scale, by P. T. Cherington.

The growth of industrial and financial units, by F. H. Sisson.

Overproduction and business organization, by V. Jordan.

Management and overproduction, by H. S. Person.

More evidence and a summary, by S. Hamlin.

Constructive proposals of contributors summarized, by S. Hamlin.

Notes:

"A symposium ... the composite view of many able specialists, each dealing with that aspect of industry which he knows."--Foreword.

OCLC:

1831242