Potentials of the American Economy : : Selected Essays /

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

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (467 p.) :; 1 Frontispiz, zahlr. Abb.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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