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...center of the mainstream. Their proposals for increased taxes on upper incomes--instead of financial stringency in programs that help the poor--and for economic controls have not even been seriously debated. Of course these proposals are only short-term cures and even then only for inflation and economic slowdown. They could not begin to provide fulfilling work for more men and women, or to diminish the massive concentration of this nation's economic power in a few hands, or make a dent in the even greater disparity in wealth between the industrial nations and the rest of the world...
...Tories are making inflation and Wilson's failure to handle it the campaign's main issue. They have promised to avoid the "confrontation politics" that led Heath to try last winter to force wage guidelines on the coal miners (leading to the miners' disastrous 11-week slowdown and 4-week strike). But the Conservatives insist that they are still prepared to enact laws to enforce wage-price restraints if necessary. They are also calling for strict control of public spending and for a more moderate growth of the money supply. These measures could probably slow the surge...
...alone in experiencing a slowdown in population growth. A similar fall-off has been occurring in practically all the developed industrial nations. In Sweden, West Germany, Japan, Hungary and Rumania, the birth rate has slowed strikingly since World War II. In a few countries-including Rumania, Argentina and Japan-there is talk of steps to increase the birth rates again in order to build up labor forces...
...discussion about a slowdown in population growth, one of the most important issues is whether or not economic growth must necessarily slow down too. "It is absurd not to link zero population growth with zero economic growth," argues Hauser. But Stephen Enke of General Electric's research organization, TEMPO, disagrees. A rapidly growing population generates a large labor force, he says, which in turn has in the past generated large increases in the gross national product. A stationary population, on the other hand, could produce zero economic growth-if other factors remain unchanged. But, maintains Enke, as population growth...
...probably fall below the 2% to 4% figure that had previously been forecast by the Administration. That would mean a drop in G.N.P. for the entire year. Economic growth has already declined at an annual rate of 4.2% in the first half. Part of the reason for the continuing slowdown is that businessmen are spending less than expected for new plant and equipment...