Word: mason
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HARVARD 1937 M.I.T. 1937 Mason, r.g. r.g., Wojczak Adlis, l.g. l.g., Weppler Gray, c. c., Thompson Moser, r.f. r.f., Simpson White...
...ECONOMICS OF THE RECOVERY PROGRAM. Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York and London. 1934. $1.50. Depressions by Joseph A. Schumpeter, Purchasing Power by Edward Chamberlin, Controlling Industry by Edward S. Mason, Helping the Worker by Douglas V. Brown, Higher Prices by Seymour E. Harris, Helping the Farmer by Wassily W. Leontief, Economics versus Politics by Overton H. Taylor...
...authors are perhaps at their best in discussing popular fallacies; though there is also much straight exposition--for instance, Professor Mason's summary account of the main features of the National Industrial Recovery Act or Professor Harris' relation of banking and monetary events of the last year, or again Professor Leentief's admirably lucid grouping of the agricultural relief provisions which will be useful to the reader who is still trying to form some comprehensive picture of what has already been done. The papers do not pretend, of course, to break new ground, or even to give what from...
...consumers, that a high wage rate may mean reduced volume of employment and thus reduce working class income as a whole, and that as far as our knowledge of business cycles goes consumer spending appears to be of less importance than investor spending. Similarly Professor Mason disposes of many loose notions on what constitutes unfair competition, and he also gives clear warning that the task of adjusting production to consumption and prices to costs is far from the simple matter it may appear to be to the business man who fails to see beyond the range of his own particular...
...other examples, take the N. R. A. codes and the Administration's labor policy. Professor Mason sees no justification for the codes beyond their service in suppressing racketeering and child labor and in establishing minimum wages. Professor Brown seems advocate for the workers operates between employers, and yet they realize how devastating the unrestricted warfare of powerful unions and large employers associations is likely to be. From the only other alternative, that of allowing the government to play a larger and larger part in the regulation particularly of wage bargains, they recoil in the same sort of terror before...