Our Economic Society and Its Problems: A Study of American Levels of Living and how to Improve Them |
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PART ONE THE STORY OF OUR ECONOMIC SOCIETY | 1 |
ECONOMIC LIFE IN ANCIENT TIMES | 3 |
ECONOMIC LIFE IN MEDIEVAL TIMES | 11 |
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activities agriculture American artels banks business cycle capital cent child labor clothing comfort level commodities consumers consumption coöperative coördination corporation cost Courtesy crop debts depression distribution dollar economic effect efficiency employers Engel's law enterprise exchange expenditures exports factory farm farmer Federal Reserve Federal Reserve system funds gold Gosplan ibid illth important improvement income increase index number individual Industrial Revolution industry interest intermediate consumption investment labor laissez faire land less levels of living loans machinery machines manorial manufacturing Margaret Bourke-White ment modern nomic operation organization plant poverty level problem production profit-seeking profits prosperity purchasing power regulation rural secure sell social control society Stuart Chase Supreme Economic Council tariff tion trade unemployment United wages wealth wheat workers York