Drastic Measures


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A history of America's use of wage and price controls from colonial times to the 1970s.




Miscellaneous Publication


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A Short History of OPA


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Problems in Price Control


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The development of the OPA was part of the history of an all-over mobilization of the Nation's resources. But within the Agency, there were organizational and administrative problems of price control of considerable importance and magnitude. This volume differs from others in the series which bear the same general title in that it treats not the substantial economic or legal problems of price control, but rather the administrative machinery developed in the national office to cope with them. It covers the major organizational land administrative problems of OPA's price department and traces the evolution of more or less satisfactory solutions for most of them.




Problems in Price Control


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Stabilization subsidies were financial aids granted by the Federal government during the war and the immediate post-war period to keep prices stable and lower than they would have otherwise been in a freemarket economy. The first study presents overall considerations of subsidies-- concentrating on subsidies outside the food field. The second concentrated solely on the food subsidies.