Parity, parity, parity / by John D. Black.

Includes index.

I. The three parities -- II. The farm bloc vs. the nation -- III. Agriculture now -- IV. Farm price control as it now is -- V. The evolution of parity -- VI. Farm prices and industrial wages -- VII. Farm vs. wage worker's annual earnings -- VIII. The three shares of the national income -- IX. Farm vs. city incomes -- X. Parity by commodities -- XI. The geography of Paris -- XII. Alternative parity standards -- XIII. Necessary prices -- XIV. Cost of production -- XV. Scarcity vs. abundance -- XVI. The farmer's interest in wages -- XVII. Inflation and the farmer -- XVIII. Keeping inflation under rein -- XIX. Price fixing and price manipulation -- XX. Loans without recourse -- XXI. Purchase and disposal -- XXII. When the government buys -- XXIII. Now that it is wartime -- XXIV. Parity, Please

"Although the subject of this book is parity prices, wages and incomes, the object toward which it is pointed is the effort of the Federal Government to regulate the prices of farm products--along with wages and with prices of other products. Books unfortunately cannot be mounted like searchlights on carriages that permit them to follow their objects to almost any point in the sky. Even as this book went to press, the President announced a general wholesale and retail freezing of prices... The author is trying to serve two classes of readers, first, a general public made up of those persons who are deeply interested in the wartime relations between agriculture, labor and the rest of our society and the connections of these with the problems of price control; and second, a body of students in our universities who would like to supplement their present course reading by a vital discussion of the foregoing subjects in basic economic terms." - Foreword

Donation from Karl H. Niebyl.