The Structure of the American Economy, الجزء 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 |
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... period of years with constant readjustment to meet new conditions , is altogether too complex for any indi- vidual or small group to grasp in all its ramifications and in every detail . Yet it ties together , into an integral whole ...
... period of years with constant readjustment to meet new conditions , is altogether too complex for any indi- vidual or small group to grasp in all its ramifications and in every detail . Yet it ties together , into an integral whole ...
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... period of time ) regardless of whether it is used or left idle , a year's use of the machine is wasted by keeping it idle . Only where the machine will lose usefulness less rapidly by being idle than by being used is the waste from ...
... period of time ) regardless of whether it is used or left idle , a year's use of the machine is wasted by keeping it idle . Only where the machine will lose usefulness less rapidly by being idle than by being used is the waste from ...
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... period of years and through the efforts of many people . Nature of this Report This report attempts to delineate the essential struc- tural characteristics of the American economy . Its aim is to clarify the problem of achieving ...
... period of years and through the efforts of many people . Nature of this Report This report attempts to delineate the essential struc- tural characteristics of the American economy . Its aim is to clarify the problem of achieving ...
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... period , make certain structural characteristics stand out , just as a high wind brings out the structural difference not evident on a windless day between the tree that bends to the wind and that which stands unbending . Without the ...
... period , make certain structural characteristics stand out , just as a high wind brings out the structural difference not evident on a windless day between the tree that bends to the wind and that which stands unbending . Without the ...
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... periods of time , however , changes in the pattern of wants are largely changes in detail , not in the basic structure of wants as they relate to major categories of activity . While consumer expenditure is the most important CHART I ...
... periods of time , however , changes in the pattern of wants are largely changes in detail , not in the basic structure of wants as they relate to major categories of activity . While consumer expenditure is the most important CHART I ...
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200 largest nonfinancial activity adjustment administrative agreements agricultural average balance sheets BASED ON TOTAL Bureau of Labor Census CENSUS OF MANUFACTURES changes chart Chase National Bank Coal-tar commodities companies concentration ratios consumer expenditure consumer income cotton durable EARNERS PLUS SALARIED economic Electric employed employment enterprises estimated Federal figures Free important included industry Amount Percent industry Number Percent Interstate Commerce Commission iron Iron Corporation J. P. Morgan Labor Statistics LEADING STATES BASED leather MANPOWER IN THOUSANDS MANPOWER WAGE EARNERS men's ment million money flows National Bank National Resources Committee nondurable North American Co organization Percent of industry Petroleum policies PREPARED IN OFFICE Progress Administration proportion railroad rates rayon retail Rubber SALARIED EMPLOYEES segment Shoes SOURCE CENSUS steel structure subsidiaries sumers taxable investments tics code tion TOTAL MANPOWER WAGE trade trade union unions United wholesale price Wood pulp workers York
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الصفحة 166 - Committee and the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation, followed by other steel agreements; the United Rubber Workers agreement with the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.
الصفحة 162 - While It is certain that the extensive economic activity represented by these corporations is in no sense subject to a single, centralized control, it is equally certain that the separate corporations are not completely independent of each other. The climate of opinion within which their separate policies are developed Is much the same, many of the same people participate in the formulation and review of the policies of the separate corporations, financing is carried on for the most part through...
الصفحة 3 - The significance of this figure of 200 billion dollars is hard to grasp, but some idea can be obtained by considering what 200 billion dollars would mean in terms of concrete goods. If all the idle men and machines could have been employed in making houses, the extra income would have been enough to provide a new $6,000 house for every family in the country.
الصفحة 318 - Webbs' defined a trade union as "a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their working lives.
الصفحة 162 - ... group appears to be incidental to the composition of the group. The remaining three of the eight major interest groups appear to stem neither from particular financial institutions nor from particular families but rather to bring together corporations whose activity centers in particular localities. For this reason they have been named for the regions in which they center, the Chicago group, the Boston group, and the Cleveland group. In each case the group includes one or more banks located in...
الصفحة 3 - ... effective use of our resources, yet at the same time preserve the underlying values in our tradition of liberty and democracy? How can we employ our unemployed, how can we use our plant and equipment to the full, how can we take advantage of the best modern technology, yet, in all this make the individual source of value and individual fulfillment in society the basic objective?
الصفحة 160 - ... corporate community. Corporate Interest Groupings When the interrelationships between the larger corporations are carefully examined, company by company, groupings of more closely related companies emerge. Sometimes several corporations are closely bound together, as in the case of the Electric Bond & Share Corporation and the three major systems in which it owns a large minority interest and which it manages on a contractual basis. Sometimes corporations have several directors in common as in...
الصفحة 168 - Third, the regulatory authorities, including the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Power Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the United States Maritime Commission and the National Labor Relations Board.