The American Economy

Fülszöveg

The greater part of this book consists of
six lectures given by the author on the
Charles R. Walgreen Foundation at the
University of Chicago, May 7-18, 1956.
Professor Hansen has added a number
of chapters which expand somewhat
topics which could not be fully devel-
oped in the public lectures. He has also
added, as an Appendix, a lecture de-
livered at the Harvard University
Memorial Celebration in honor of
Woodrow Wilson.
The author reviews the economic ad-
vances of the last generation and shows
how they apply to the policy issues of
the recent past, the present, and the
near future. The reader will find much
rich material on the improved tech-
niques for stabilizing and expanding
our economy, and on the relevance of
Keynesian economics, now an accepted
part of economics.
Among the important issues discussed
are: the developments of Keynes's
thought, the evolution of the President's
Council of Economic Advisers, the in-
creased responsibility of... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The greater part of this book consists of
six lectures given by the author on the
Charles R. Walgreen Foundation at the
University of Chicago, May 7-18, 1956.
Professor Hansen has added a number
of chapters which expand somewhat
topics which could not be fully devel-
oped in the public lectures. He has also
added, as an Appendix, a lecture de-
livered at the Harvard University
Memorial Celebration in honor of
Woodrow Wilson.
The author reviews the economic ad-
vances of the last generation and shows
how they apply to the policy issues of
the recent past, the present, and the
near future. The reader will find much
rich material on the improved tech-
niques for stabilizing and expanding
our economy, and on the relevance of
Keynesian economics, now an accepted
part of economics.
Among the important issues discussed
are: the developments of Keynes's
thought, the evolution of the President's
Council of Economic Advisers, the in-
creased responsibility of government
for the economic health of the nation,
the relation of rising output and prices,
and the inadequacies of monetary
against fiscal policy.
The volume as a whole reveals the
great advances in economic thinking
over a generation and the resultant
gains in national stability, investment,
growth, productivity, and distribution.
No American economist has done more
than Professor Hansen to advance and
disseminate this part of economics. Vissza