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Potentials of the American Economy : Selected Essays / Sumner H. Slichter; John T. Dunlop.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slichter, Sumner H., author.
- Series:
- Wertheim Publications in Industrial Relations
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic history.
- Economic policy.
- Wirtschaft.
- United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.
- United States--Economic conditions--1945.
- United States--Economic policy.
- Local Subjects:
- United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.
- United States--Economic conditions--1945.
- United States--Economic policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (491 p.): 1 Frontispiz, zahlr. Abb.
- Edition:
- Reprint 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Notes and Acknowledgments
- CONTENTS
- SUMNER HUBER SLICHTER / Dunlop, John T.
- Part I. THE AMERICAN ECONOMY
- 1. Technology and the Great American Experiment
- 2. The Growth of Moderation
- 3. Our Economy- Is It Politics-Proof?
- 4. The Growth of Competition
- 5. Strong Points and Weak Points in the American Economy
- Part II. THE ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
- 6. The Immediate Unemployment Problem
- 7. Safeguards Against Depressions: An Analysis of Depression Cures
- 8. Postwar Boom or Collapse
- 9. Survey of Our Economy: Pluses and Minuses
- 10. How Stable Is the Economy?
- 11. The Financial Condition of the United States
- 12. Inflation-Α Problem of Shrinking Importance
- 13. Current Trends, Problems, and Prospects in the American Economy
- Part III. INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
- 14. Industrial Morale
- 15. The Current Labor Policies of American Industries
- 16. The Changing Character of American Industrial Relations
- 17. Trade Unions in a Free Society
- 18. Are We Becoming a "Laboristic" State?
- 19. Labor's New Victory: Threat or Promise?
- 20. The American System of Industrial Relations: Some Contrasts with Foreign Systems
- 21. New Goals for the Unions
- Part IV. ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND POLICY ISSUES
- 22. Technological Unemployment- Lines of Action, Adaptation, and Control
- 23. The Impact of Social-Security Legislation upon Mobility and Enterprise
- 24. The Conditions of Expansion
- 25. Notes on the Structure of Wages
- 26. Do the Wage-Fixing Arrangements in the American Labor Market Have an Inflationary Bias?
- 27. Comments on the Steel Report- Raising the Price of Labor as a Method of Increasing Employment
- 28. Economics and Collective Bargaining
- THE WRITINGS OF SUMNER H. SLICHTER
- INDEX
- Backmatter
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-674-42499-9
- OCLC:
- 1013951757
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