Drastic Measures: A History of Wage and Price Controls in the United States by Hugh Rockoff

University of California Publications in Linguistics

Drastic Measures: A History of Wage and Price Controls in the United States

Hugh Rockoff

304 pages paperback

2 editions

nonfiction business history politics medium-paced
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This is a history of America's use of wage and price controls from colonial times to Richard Nixon's experiment with controls in the 1970s. It explores the impact of controls on prices and productivity, side-effects such as the growth of black mar...

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