Lectures in Current Economic Problems

Table of Contents: Foreword -- By Dr. A. F. Woods, Director, U.S.D.A. Graduate School; Is the Self-Adjusting Economy Workable in Current International Relations? -- By Alvin H. Hansen. Professor of Foreign Trade, University of Minnesota; Trade Union Organization and Labor's Bargaining Power -- By Isador Lubin, Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor; What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Alternatives to Capitalism? -- By Calvin B. Hoover, Professor of Economics, Duke University; Business Cycle Theory--Can Depressions Be Tempered or Avoided? -- By Jacob Viner, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago; Some Consequences of Our Monetary Policy -- By Max J. Wasserman, Director of Finance and Control, Resettlement Administration; The Lessons of German Experience with Unemployment Relief -- By Eveline M. Burns, Lecturer in Economics, Columbia University; Can Capitalism Survive? -- By Josef A. Schumpeter, Professor of Economics, Harvard University; Some Recent Developments in Economic Theory -- By Henry Julian Wadleigh, Senior Economic Analyst, Department of State; Introduction to the Problem of the Relation of Government to Economic Life -- By Thomas C. Blaisdell, Jr., Economic Adviser to Administrator, Resettlement Administration; Monetary Control I -- By E. A. Goldenweiser, Director of Research and Statistics, Federal Reserve Board; Monetary Control II -- By H. Parker Willis, Professor of Banking, Columbia University; Agriculture -- By E. G. Nourse, Director, Institute of Economics, Brookings Institution; Power and Its Social Control -- By Morris L. Cooke, Administrator, Rural Electrification Administration; The Work of the National Resources Committee -- By Charles W. Eliot II, Executive Officer, National Resources Committee; Problem of Labor -- By David J. Saposs, Chief Economist, National Labor Relations Board; Transportation -- By Joseph B. Eastman, One-Time Federal Coordinator of Transportation; Tariff Making in the United States --By Robert L. O'Brien, Chairman of the Tariff Commission; Social Security -- By Ernest S. Griffith, Dean, Graduate School, American University; Federal Trade Commission and the Regulation of Business -- By W. H. S. Stevens, Assistant Chief Economist, Federal Trade Commission; Government and the Consumer -- By Clarence Ayres, One-Time Director, Consumers' Division, Department of Labor; What Are the Economic Effects of Spending as Compared with Saving -- By Harold S. Moulton, President, Brookings Institution, Washington, D. C.; Taxation -- By Ernest Minor Patterson, Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania.