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CHAPTER VII
INFLATION AND WAGES 		77
General Effect of Inflation on Wages--Historical Retro-
spect--Wages during Second World War.
CHAPTER VIII
INFLATION IN ITS RELATION TO SOCIAL WELFARE ENDOW-
MENTS AND DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT 		84
Importance of Educational Endowments in the United
States--Chief Effects of Inflation on Endowments: Infla-
tion Destroys Endowments; Inflation Reduces Benefac-
tions--Inflation and Democratic Government: Inflation
Tends to Destroy the People's Control of the Public
Purse; Inflation Breaks Down Public Morale; Inflation
and the Middle Class.
CHAPTER IX
CONTROLLING INFLATION--GENERAL CONTROLS 		95
Repeal of Inflationary Monetary Laws--Taxation as a
Curb to Inflation--Purchase of Government Debt--
Compulsory Saving--Restrictions on Installment Buying:
Volume of Consumer--goods Credit; Characteristics of
Consumers' Durable Goods; Methods of Restricting Pur-
chases of Consumers' Durable Goods; Federal Reserve
Restrictions on Installment Credit.
CHAPTER X
CONTROLLING INFLATION--PRICE FIXING PRIOR TO THE
END OF FIRST WORLD WAR 		114
Methods of Price Fixing--Historical Survey--Price Fix-
ing in the United States during First World War: Short

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Publication Information: Book Title: The a B C of Inflation, with Particular Reference to Present-Day Conditions in the United States. Contributors: Edwin Walter Kemmerer - author. Publisher: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1942. Page Number: xi.
    
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