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The Economics of the Recovery Program

by Douglass V. Brown, Edward Chamberlin, Seymour E. Harris. 196 pgs.

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Table of contents
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION vii
DEPRESSIONS by JOSEPH A. SCHUMPETER 3
PURCHASING POWER by EDWARD CHAMBERLIN 22
CONTROLLING INDUSTRY by EDWARD S. MASON 38
HELPING LABOR by DOUGLASS V. BROWN 64
HIGHER PRICES by SEYMOUR E. HARRIS 90
HELPING THE FARMER by WASSILY LEONTIEF 139
ECONOMICS VERSUS POLITICS by OVERTON H. TAYLOR 160
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1.
Accounting for United States Economic Growth, 1929-1969
Book by Edward F. Denison; Brookings Institutuion, 1974
Subjects: United States--Economic Conditions--1918-1945, United States--Economic Conditions--1945-
...Economic conditions-1918-1945. 2. United States-Economic conditions-1945- I. Brookings Institution...prerequisite for understanding economic growth. Edward F. Denison...analysis and applies them to the United States, whose economy is the worlds...between actual and potential conditions. The technique yields a potential...geographically to the coterminous United States. Also, most property income...doubtless by other special wartime conditions as well. In 1947, when my...
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The Recovery Problem in the United States
Book by Harold Glenn Moulton; The Brookings Institution, 1936
Subjects: United States--Economic Conditions--1918-1945, United States--Economic Policy--1933-1945
...duties of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in the United States, which after a year of discussion was finally passed in...indebtedness. III. THE RAPID RECOVERY OF WORLD PRODUCTION One of the...part of the policy of promoting national economic self-sufficiency. By 1925...pre-war levels. While European industrial recovery, as already noted, was...quarterly movements from 1929 to 1933 shown in this diagram are based...
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The Economics of the Recovery Program
Book by Douglass V. Brown, Edward Chamberlin, Seymour E. Harris; Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, inc., 1934
Subjects: Industrial Policy--United States, United States--Economic Conditions--1918-1945, United States--National Industrial Recovery Act Of 1933
...finances during prosperity as the United States did in the decade which preceded...equally sound fiscal habits as soon as recovery gets under way. PURCHASING POWER...The Problem AN INADEQUACY of purchasing power in some sense or...this supposed deficiency. Thus the Industrial Recovery Act declares it to be "the policy of...an Act to relieve the existing national emergency by increasing agricultural...short-lived boom, as in the summer of 1933, followed by a corresponding slump...
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Recent Social Trends in the United States: Report of the President's Research Committee on Social Trends - Vol. 1
Book by Wesley Clair Mitchell; McGraw-Hill, 1933
Subjects: Social Problems, United States--Economic Conditions--1918-1945, United States--Social Conditions--1933-1945
...MONOGRAPHS RECENT SOCIAL TRENDS IN THE UNITED STATESA SERIES OF MONOGRAPHS PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION...Wolman and Peck LABOR IN THE NATIONAL LIFE Steiner AMERICANS...COMPANY, INC. NEW YORK AND LONDON 1933 COPYRIGHT, 1933, BY THE RESEARCH...established classes or castes to act as a brake on social changes, the...metals, there is a great increase in recovery of scrap, and the drain upon the...significance from the earlier phase of the industrial revolution. Its later phase is characterized...
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Human Exploitation in the United States
Book by Norman Thomas; Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1934
Subjects: Capitalism, Labor--United States, United States--Economic Conditions--1918-1945, United States--Race Relations, United States--Social Conditions, Working Class--United States
...VIII. WORKING CONDITIONS 164 IX...sudden and so complete was economic devastation in years which...estimated national income of the United States of America should have fallen...conservatism. The very backward conditions to be observed in comparatively...statistical information on farm economics, we know that we are justified...development of public parks by the United States Government and by states...culture, which go with this economic condition are likewise appropriate to it. The conditions under which cotton is cultivated...which to make a living. The United States did far less for her freedmen...
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A Multicultural Chronology of Welfare Policy and Social Work in the United States
Journal article by Anthony M. Plait, Jenifer L. Cooreman; Social Justice, Vol. 28, 2001
Subjects: Multiculturalism--Analysis, Social policy--Analysis, Social service--Political aspects, Welfare--Political aspects
...Representing 10 national womens organizations...psychiatric needs of U.S. soldiers...and Infancy Act, the nations...into the United States from any...215). 1933 The Federal...National Recovery Act to finance...Congress of Industrial Organizations...of Social Policy in the United States. Cambridge...Press. United States Department of Labor, Office...Case for National Action. Washington...
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The Past as Prologue? A Brief History of the Labor Movement in the United States
Journal article by Joseph Adler; Public Personnel Management, Vol. 35, 2006
Subjects: Labor movement--History, Labor movement--Political aspects, Public sector--Labor relations
...Collective Bargaining In pre-industrial United States, the law governing workers was based on English common law of the time. Groups which formed in...Other laws, including the Clayton Act and the Federal Trade Commission...conditions of workers. A number of large industrial employers also followed the lead...to settle impasses and created the National Mediation Board. (15) While the RLA...management in federal courts. In 1933, Congress passed the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), which explicitly encouraged...
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From Zero-Sum to Value-Added Strategies: The Emergence of Knowledge-Based Industrial Policy in the States of the United States
Journal article by Henry Etzkowitz; Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 25, 1997
Subjects: Economic development--Analysis, Industrial policy--Analysis, Science and state--Analysis
...value-added strategies: the emergence of knowledge-based industrial policy in the states of the United States. by Henry Etzkowitz...their own and lobbied government to act on their behalf. Government programs...academic research as a regional and national economic development strategy has gone...
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Tainted Blood: The Ambivalence of Ethnic Migration in Israel, Japan, Korea, Germany and the United States[1]
Journal article by Dietrich Thranhardt; German Policy Studies, Vol. 1, 2000
Subjects: Ethnic groups--Political aspects, Ethnicity--Social aspects, Immigrants--Demographic aspects
Tainted Blood: The Ambivalence of Ethnic Migration in Israel, Japan, Korea, Germany and the United States1. by Dietrich Thranhardt...Thus Max Weber remarks that ethnic and national belonging share a belief character...stick to their Japanese jobs. Some also act as middlemen and begin developing ethnic...South Korea is a latecomer to the industrial world. A colony up to 1945, and destroyed...ultimately brought down the republic in 1933...
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The International Rating Game: An Analysis of the Liability of Rating Agencies in Europe, England, and the United States
Journal article by Carsten Thomas Ebenroth, Thomas J. Dillon Jr.; Law and Policy in International Business, Vol. 24, 1993
Subjects: Conflict of laws--Securities, Duty of care (Law)--Comparative method, Liability for credit information--Comparative method, Rating agencies (Securities)--Laws, regulations, etc.
...Although the auditors report was available to the public and economic loss by this class of plaintiff was foreseeable, there...the advice will be offered. C. Duty of Care in the United States So far, there have been only two American cases which...paper was "prime," the court limited its analysis to the conditions existing on the date of sale of the securities and the...Ocean Steam Navigation Co., 1924 2 Q.B. 730. Certain conditions on the application of an expressly chosen proper law...
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Of MITI and Men: Japan's Industrial Policy Sets the Standard, but Can the United States Do Better
Magazine article by Edward N. Luttwak; Washington Monthly, Vol. 24, December 1992
Subjects: Administrative agencies--Innovations, Industrial policy--Evaluation, Protectionism--Analysis
Of MITI and men: Japans industrial policy sets the standard, but can the United States do better by Edward N. Luttwak For...all sorts of government agencies and departments act every day in ways that have an impact on U.S...
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One-Dimensional Growth: Since 1998 the United States Has Lost 11 Percent of Its Manufacturing Jobs-And the Much Vaunted Productivity Gains of the Digital Revolution Seem to Have Disappeared. We Need an Industrial Policy That Produces Real Growth
Magazine article by David Friedman; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 291, January 2003
Subjects: Economic policy--Analysis, Industrial policy--Analysis, Industrial productivity--Economic aspects, United States economic conditions--Analysis
One-Dimensional Growth: Since 1998 the United States Has Lost 11 Percent of Its Manufacturing Jobs-And the Much Vaunted Productivity...Revolution Seem to Have Disappeared. We Need an Industrial Policy That Produces Real Growth. by David...
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How the United States Reversed Its Policy on Bombing Civilians
Magazine article by Sherwood Ross; The Humanist, Vol. 65, July 2005
Subjects: Atrocities, Bombings, Civilian casualties, Civilians--Crimes against, Military policy, United States--Military policy, War crimes, World War II, 1939-1945
How the United States Reversed Its Policy on Bombing Civilians...Luftwaffe destroyed the Spanish town of Guernica on April 26, 1937, more than...for the application of the Neutrality Act to Berlin and Rome" so as to embargo...articles arguing for strategic bombing of industrial centers and other civilian targets...of these developments, a number of national leaders issued in February 1923 Draft...
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Brave New Corporate World: An Assessment of Industrial Policy
Magazine article by Richard Mcintyre, Michael Hillard; Monthly Review, Vol. 36, October 1984
Subjects: Economic policy--Political aspects, Economists--Economic policy, Industrial policy--Economic aspects, Industries--Social aspects, Industry--Social aspects, Magaziner, Ira C.--Economic policy, Minding America's Business (book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Reich, Robert--Economic policy, The Next American Frontier (Book), The Zero-Sum Society (Book), Thurow, Lester C.--Economic policy
...New Corporate World: An Assessment of Industrial Policy. by Richard McIntyre...fervor peaked with the attempt to nationalize the oil industry, and with Congressional...consideration of the Hart Deconcentration Act. Though these efforts failed, they...reorganize corporate management in the United States, with a view to enabling U.S.-based...Japan. Despite the current "economic recovery (which still leaves millions of unemployed...
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Why Is There Socialism Only in the United States?
Magazine article; National Review, Vol. 36, May 4, 1984
Subjects: Capitalism--Public opinion, Government ownership--Public opinion, Industrial policy--Political aspects, Nationalization--Public opinion, Socialism--United States
Why Is There Socialism Only in the United States? AROUND THE WORLD, privatization is on the march. In socialist...Around the Third World, more and more authorities are thinking of lopping off inefficient state industries. Only the United States...
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Industrial Policy Revisited
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 7, 1996
Industrial policy revisited With the Japanese...Magaziner in 1982 to tout them as models the United States should emulate, lest American businesses...to review the recent economic history of these once seemingly omnipotent giants...Reich and Magaziner proposed to increase national wealth by encouraging "U.S. companies...
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Why the United States Is Indivisible; after Culture Wars, Homespun Love of Freedom, Apple Pie Prevails
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 17, 2002
Why the United States is indivisible; After culture wars, homespun love of freedom, apple pie prevails Byline: Suzanne...enjoyment. Americas transition from an agrarian to an industrial to an information economy has not been smooth, but...
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Europe, Asia Hold a Historic Summit: United States Not Invited to Bangkok Event
Newspaper article by Takehiko Nomura; The Washington Times, March 1, 1996
Subjects: Asia
...Europe, Asia hold a historic summit: United States not invited to Bangkok event by Takehiko Nomura Leaders of European and Asian countries today...and Washington wasnt invited. As industrial nations scramble to join a frenetically...
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Fed Raises Interest Rates a Quarter-Point; Dow Has Biggest Jump since '03
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 30, 2006
Subjects: Interest rates, Monetary policy, United States. Federal Reserve Board--Statistics
...bond markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, already boosted yesterday...Baumohl, executive director of the Economic Outlook Group, an economic advisory firm in Princeton...precipitously and risk a serious economic downturn just to prove a point...
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Update Air-Pollution Policy
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 29, 2005
Subjects: United States. Environmental Protection Agency
...environmental program that requires major industrial plants to install new air pollution...This makes perfect sense. When the states and Environmental Protection Agency...pollution is physically increased, all of the pollution it can create already has been accounted for in both local and national air-control plans. Until the late 1990s...strategies, featured in the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. Even worse, the...
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Industrial Policy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
INDUSTRIAL POLICY government-sponsored economic...enterprise, and employees to strengthen the national economy. In the 1980s and 90s, industrial...some success in Germany and Japan. In the United States, such direct government involvement in...instrumental in the research and development of promising, high-risk technologies. U.S...
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United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
UNITED STATES officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295...the pink cliffs of Bryce Canyon National Park , in Utah; and the geysers of...electric and electronic equipment, industrial and power-generating machinery, organic...He fostered the drastic Embargo Act of 1807 in an attempt to gain recognition...agencies created were the National Recovery Administration , the Agricultural...
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Supreme Court, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SUPREME COURT, UNITED STATES highest court of the United States, established by...holding the creation of the second National Bank a legitimate power of Congress...New Deal legislation as the National Industrial Recovery Act (in the Schechter Poultry Case), the...
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Communist Party , in the United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
COMMUNIST PARTY , in the United States in the United States, political...espoused the Marxist-Leninist principles of communism . Origins The first...grounds that African Americans were a national, not a racial, minority. The adoption...organizing new unions for the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), for the first...increasing attack. The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 denied the facilities of the...
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Maine , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MAINE , state, United States largest of the New England states of the NE United...Maines two great parks are Acadia National Park on and around Mt. Desert Island...growing season, and remoteness from industrial and commercial centers have long militated...after Parliament passed the Stamp Act in 1765; in protest, a mob at Falmouth...
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