Word: inequilibrium
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...this moment the peace societies are working on the cause of war; economic inequilibrium. The guts of America stink with the putrefaction of the slums and the sharecroppers and the unemployed. President Roosevelt smelled it, felt himself powerless in the face of passive reactionary opposition, and interested the nation in foreign affairs. The effect was good. Americans forgot their own disordered houses in their scurry to see the other fellow's mess. Mussolini and Hitler resorted to the same stunt when they felt themselves powerless. A militarist nation lasts for a few years and dies; the spirit of religion...
...Price Inequilibrium...
This evidence of low prices for farm products points to the most significant element in the commodity-price weakness- the inequilibrium which worries Mr. Roosevelt when he suggests that some prices should fall, others rise. For, whereas prices of farm products and raw materials (output of which cannot be easily controlled) break on slight excuse, prices of manufactured products (output of which is more or less controllable) are firmly established...
President Eliot pointed out that all the people of the world except an insignificant proportion are impressively ignorant of economic, financial and co-operative affairs, and that this ignorance begets a state of mental inequilibrium. "Schools and colleges", he declared, "must take active measures against this danger to democracy. You say that such a method is too slow? Yes, but that is no reason why we shouldn't begin to get these educational forces working...
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