Potentials of the American Economy : : Selected Essays / / Sumner H. Slichter; ed. by John T. Dunlop.

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• VerfasserIn: Slichter, Sumner H.,
• MitwirkendeR: Dunlop, John T.,
• HerausgeberIn: Dunlop, John T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1961
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Wertheim Publications in Industrial Relations ; 29
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (467 p.) :; 1 Frontispiz, zahlr. Abb.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Notes and Acknowledgments --; CONTENTS --; SUMNER HUBER SLICHTER --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674424999; 9783110353488; 9783110353556; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674424999
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sumner H. Slichter; ed. by John T. Dunlop.