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Book SynopsisGuy Alchon examines the mutually supportive efforts of social scientists, business managers, and government officials to create America's first peacetime system of macroeconomic management. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books fr
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. ix*INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*CHAPTER 1. Technocratic Progressivism, pg. 8*CHAPTER 2. Technocratic Mobilization, 1917-1918, pg. 21*CHAPTER 3. Ideas of Technocratic Reconstruction, 1919, pg. 33*CHAPTER 4. Institutions of Technocratic Reconstruction, 1920-1921, pg. 51*CHAPTER 5. Impulses Toward Techno-Corporatist Stabilization, 1921-1922, pg. 71*CHAPTER 6. The Business Cycle Report and Its Aftermath, 1922-1923, pg. 91*CHAPTER 7. The Advance of Techno-Corporatist Legitimation, 1924-1927, pg. 112*CHAPTER 8. Toward a Technique of Balance, 1927-1929, pg. 129*CHAPTER 9. After the Crash, 1929-1932, pg. 152*EPILOGUE, pg. 167*ABBREVIATIONS, pg. 173*NOTES, pg. 175*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 220*INDEX, pg. 245
