Potentials of the American Economy: Selected Essays

Sumner H. Slichter

Published by Harvard University Press 1961

Potentials of the American Economy

Selected Essays

Sumner H. Slichter
Edited by: John T. Dunlop

Volume 29 in the series Wertheim Publications in Industrial Relations

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674424999

Contents

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Notes and Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
CONTENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
SUMNER HUBER SLICHTER John T. Dunlop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Part I. THE AMERICAN ECONOMY
1. Technology and the Great American Experiment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
2. The Growth of Moderation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
3. Our Economy– Is It Politics-Proof? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
4. The Growth of Competition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
5. Strong Points and Weak Points in the American Economy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Part II. THE ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
6. The Immediate Unemployment Problem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
7. Safeguards Against Depressions: An Analysis of Depression Cures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
8. Postwar Boom or Collapse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
9. Survey of Our Economy: Pluses and Minuses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
10. How Stable Is the Economy? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
11. The Financial Condition of the United States Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
12. Inflation–Α Problem of Shrinking Importance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
13. Current Trends, Problems, and Prospects in the American Economy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
Part III. INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
14. Industrial Morale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
15. The Current Labor Policies of American Industries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
16. The Changing Character of American Industrial Relations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
17. Trade Unions in a Free Society Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
18. Are We Becoming a “Laboristic” State? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
19. Labor’s New Victory: Threat or Promise? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
20. The American System of Industrial Relations: Some Contrasts with Foreign Systems Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
21. New Goals for the Unions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Part IV. ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND POLICY ISSUES
22. Technological Unemployment– Lines of Action, Adaptation, and Control Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
23. The Impact of Social-Security Legislation upon Mobility and Enterprise Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
24. The Conditions of Expansion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
25. Notes on the Structure of Wages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	360
26. Do the Wage-Fixing Arrangements in the American Labor Market Have an Inflationary Bias? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
27. Comments on the Steel Report- Raising the Price of Labor as a Method of Increasing Employment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	406
28. Economics and Collective Bargaining Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	416
THE WRITINGS OF SUMNER H. SLICHTER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	457
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	469

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright year: 1961
Edition: Reprint 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Front matter: 24
- Main content: 467
Illustrations
- Other: 1 Frontispiz, zahlr. Abb.
Keywords: United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.; United States -- Economic policy.; United States -- Economic conditions -- 1945

eBook

Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674424999

Hardcover

Published: February 5, 1961
ISBN: 9780674365049