War economy and crisis / by Hyman Lumer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : International Publishers, 1954.Description: 256 pages : illustrations, tables, and figures ; 21 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • HC 106.5 .L85 1954
Contents:
1. The permanent war economy -- 2. Who pays for war? -- 3. Real wages in a war economy -- 4. Wartime employment and working conditions -- 5. War profits -- 6. War and the farmers -- 7. War economy and the Negro people -- 8. War and cyclical crises -- 9. World crisis of capitalism -- 10. The state in wartime -- 11. The fight for peace
Summary: "In this full-length survey of the American economy, especially since World War II, the author focuses attention on the role of wartime economy and the partial war economy of recent years. He takes up as a central problem the relation between government spending for war and the factors making for an economic crisis, to show that war spending only increases the instability of the economy, adversely affects the conditions of the people, and builds up the elements of a severe crisis." -- From the dust cover.
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BOOKS BOOKS Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks HC 106.5 .L85 1954 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan NPML19070029

Tables include detailed economic statistics.

Includes bibliographical references (pgs. 243-252).

1. The permanent war economy -- 2. Who pays for war? -- 3. Real wages in a war economy -- 4. Wartime employment and working conditions -- 5. War profits -- 6. War and the farmers -- 7. War economy and the Negro people -- 8. War and cyclical crises -- 9. World crisis of capitalism -- 10. The state in wartime -- 11. The fight for peace

"In this full-length survey of the American economy, especially since World War II, the author focuses attention on the role of wartime economy and the partial war economy of recent years. He takes up as a central problem the relation between government spending for war and the factors making for an economic crisis, to show that war spending only increases the instability of the economy, adversely affects the conditions of the people, and builds up the elements of a severe crisis." -- From the dust cover.

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