Economic growth in the United States : its history, problems, and prospects / Sumner H. Slichter ; edited by John T. Dunlop.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: [Baton Rogue, Louisiana] : Louisiana State University Press, 1961.Description: xi, 196 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0313229740 (lib. bdg.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.973 19
LOC classification:
  • HC 103 .S62 1961
Contents:
1. Some discussions of economic growth and evolution -- 2, The growth in out-put in man-hour in the United States -- 3, Some elements in a general theory of private demand -- 4. Conditions and institutions that affect the capacity of the economy to increase the demand for goods -- 5. The future of economic institutions in the United States.
Summary: "Is our capitalistic, free-enterprise society really free? Our economy has been called "government-controlled", "planned", even "socialistic." Professor Sumner H. Slichter, one of the great economists of our time, believed that the American economy is far from being "stagnated", or labor-ridden, or doomed to socialism....Chapter one of this book summarizes the most important speculations of the last century, assessing the contributions of Mill, Marx, Veblen, Keynnes, and Schumpter, amongst others. Chapter two explores the fundamental reasons for the increase..." -- book jacket.
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Includes index

1. Some discussions of economic growth and evolution -- 2, The growth in out-put in man-hour in the United States -- 3, Some elements in a general theory of private demand -- 4. Conditions and institutions that affect the capacity of the economy to increase the demand for goods -- 5. The future of economic institutions in the United States.

"Is our capitalistic, free-enterprise society really free? Our economy has been called "government-controlled", "planned", even "socialistic." Professor Sumner H. Slichter, one of the great economists of our time, believed that the American economy is far from being "stagnated", or labor-ridden, or doomed to socialism....Chapter one of this book summarizes the most important speculations of the last century, assessing the contributions of Mill, Marx, Veblen, Keynnes, and Schumpter, amongst others. Chapter two explores the fundamental reasons for the increase..." -- book jacket.

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