America Faces the Future

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Prefatory Note v
• Contents vii
• Part I- The New Intellectual and Moral Climate 1
• Chapter I Challenges to the Social Order 3
• Chapter II A Planless World By Nicholas Murray Butler 11
• Chapter III The Call of the Protestant Churches 20
• Chapter IV The Voice of Capital and Labor 29
• Chapter V Must We Reduce Our Standard of Living? By William Trufant Foster and Waddill Catchings 44
• Chapter VI Prophets Without Foresight By Edward Angly 57
• Chapter VII Down and Out in Detroit By Charles R. Walker 70
• Chapter VIII Can Capitalism Be Saved? By Andr Maurois 86
• Chapter IX The Responsibility of Bankers By James Truslow Adams 97
• Part II- Blue-Prints for a Planned Economy 115
• Chapter I A 'Five-Year Plan' for America By Charles A. Beard 117
• Chapter II Unemployment By Nicholas Murray Butler 141
• Chapter III Stabilization of Industry By Gerard Swope 160
• Chater IV The Public Reaction to the Swope Plan 186
• Chapter V Planning Proposals of the Committee On Continuity of Business and Employment of the United States Chamber Of Commerce 196
• Chapter VI The American Federation of Labor Looks Forward to Planning 265
• Chapter VII A Demand for State Action On A Security Wage By John T. Flynn 282
• Chapter IX The Advance of Large-Scale Agriculture By Walter B. Pitkin 311
• Chapter X Actualities of Agricultural Planning By Franklin D. Roosevelt 325
• Chapter XI The State Plan Of Governor Philip F. La Follette 351
• Chapter XII President Hoovers Plan 386
• Chapter XIII The Rationality of Planned Economy By Charles A. Beard 400
• Appendix 411