12. Inflation–Α Problem of Shrinking Importance

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Notes and Acknowledgments vii
3. CONTENTS ix
4. SUMNER HUBER SLICHTER xiii
5. Part I. THE AMERICAN ECONOMY
6. 1. Technology and the Great American Experiment 5
7. 2. The Growth of Moderation 15
8. 3. Our Economy– Is It Politics-Proof? 22
9. 4. The Growth of Competition 30
10. 5. Strong Points and Weak Points in the American Economy 39
11. Part II. THE ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
12. 6. The Immediate Unemployment Problem 57
13. 7. Safeguards Against Depressions: An Analysis of Depression Cures 72
14. 8. Postwar Boom or Collapse 83
15. 9. Survey of Our Economy: Pluses and Minuses 88
16. 10. How Stable Is the Economy? 95
17. 11. The Financial Condition of the United States 112
18. 12. Inflation–Α Problem of Shrinking Importance 134
19. 13. Current Trends, Problems, and Prospects in the American Economy 150
20. Part III. INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
21. 14. Industrial Morale 167
22. 15. The Current Labor Policies of American Industries 184
23. 16. The Changing Character of American Industrial Relations 213
24. 17. Trade Unions in a Free Society 233
25. 18. Are We Becoming a “Laboristic” State? 255
26. 19. Labor’s New Victory: Threat or Promise? 263
27. 20. The American System of Industrial Relations: Some Contrasts with Foreign Systems 271
28. 21. New Goals for the Unions 287
29. Part IV. ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND POLICY ISSUES
30. 22. Technological Unemployment– Lines of Action, Adaptation, and Control 301
31. 23. The Impact of Social-Security Legislation upon Mobility and Enterprise 317
32. 24. The Conditions of Expansion 337
33. 25. Notes on the Structure of Wages 360
34. 26. Do the Wage-Fixing Arrangements in the American Labor Market Have an Inflationary Bias? 379
35. 27. Comments on the Steel Report- Raising the Price of Labor as a Method of Increasing Employment 406
36. 28. Economics and Collective Bargaining 416
37. THE WRITINGS OF SUMNER H. SLICHTER 433
38. INDEX 457
39. Backmatter 469