Chapter seven. Abort, Retry, Fail: stagflation, competition, and the end of wage-price policy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter one. Monopoly and the Problem of the New Deal 13
6. Chapter two. The Price of Peace: wage-price policy in the 1940s and 1950s 43
7. Chapter three. Corporate Pricing and the Public Interest 73
8. Chapter four. Management’s New Look, 1955–1960 96
9. Chapter five. Assuming Direct Control: wage-price policy becomes incomes policy, 1960–1968 130
10. Chapter six. If at First You Don’t Succeed: the business community and Nixon’s wage and price controls 160
11. Chapter seven. Abort, Retry, Fail: stagflation, competition, and the end of wage-price policy 184
12. Conclusion 220
13. Tables 229
14. Notes 237
15. Index 307