Government Wage-price Guideposts in the American Economy


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Compilation of the texts of 3 moskowitz lectures on aspects of economic policy in the USA, with particular reference to the productivity-based wages-price guidelines - covers inflation, the cost of living, the maintenance of full employment, the trade union position in regard to the guidelines, etc.




Employment, Growth, and Price Levels


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Explores the possibility of combining three economically desirable goals: an adequate rate of economic growth, substantially full employment or maximum employment, and substantial price stability.




Wages and the Public Interest ...


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Space Machines, Wages, and the American Economic Drift -- Our Mounting Economic Dangers -- The Consumption Lag Is Basic -- Wage Lag Underlies Consumption Lag -- Wages Have Lagged Behind Investment In Means Of Production -- Wages Have Lagged Behind Profits -- Wages Have Trailed Prices, And Wage Costs Have Not Justified Price Inflation -- Wages Have Not Caused Inflation Through Too Much Purchasing Power, And Full Employment Is Not Inflationary -- Wage Rates Have Not Been Too High From Viewpoint Of Productivity -- Wages And The Public Interest -- Wage Progress And The Farmer -- Goals For Wage Earners, Farmers, And All The People -- Wage Progress, National Security, And Domestic Public Programs -- Explanatory Notes.







Myth and Measurement


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A powerful new challenge to the conventional view that higher minimum wages reduce jobs for low-wage workers. Using data from recent minimum wage change results, economists David Card and Alan Krueger show that increases in the minimum wage lead to increases in pay, but no loss in jobs.




Employment, Growth, and Price Levels: The effect of increases in wages, salaries, and the prices of personal services, together with union and professional practices upon prices, profits, production, and employment, September 28, 29, 30, October 1 and 2, 1959


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Explores the possibility of combining three economically desirable goals: an adequate rate of economic growth, substantially full employment or maximum employment, and substantial price stability. pt. 6c: Contains answers to questions on monetary policy and debt management submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and 17 firms dealing in Government securities. pt. 10: Contains written responses from Treasury Dept and Federal Reserve Board to questions submitted by Joint Economic Committee on the Government's management of its monetary, fiscal, and debt operations.




Employment, Growth, and Price Levels: The American economy; problems and prospects, March 20, 23, 24, and 25, 1959


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Explores the possibility of combining three economically desirable goals: an adequate rate of economic growth, substantially full employment or maximum employment, and substantial price stability. pt. 6c: Contains answers to questions on monetary policy and debt management submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and 17 firms dealing in Government securities. pt. 10: Contains written responses from Treasury Dept and Federal Reserve Board to questions submitted by Joint Economic Committee on the Government's management of its monetary, fiscal, and debt operations.