24. Economics,, 1929-1980

Summary: Documents CRs' view of the threats, barriers, theories, and practices relating to the health of the American economic system. Includes newspaper and magazine clippings, correspondence, manuals, pamphlets and brochures. Used for reference by CR editors to back-up editorial commentaries. Subjects include economic theory, economic radicalism, capitalism, free enterprise system, the decay of economic competition, the Great Depression, "portents of the next depression," economic planning, business, business ethics, Big Business vs. Little Business, quality control and product liability, production costs, monopolies and trust, home industry, distribution costs, forced obsolescence, income, wages and salary, cost of living, banks and banking, investment, taxation, income taxes, inflation and deflation, tariffs, prices, price mark-ups, price fixing, resale prices, consumption economics and bibliographic materials on consumption.