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Abstract/Sommario: Principles - Types of social grouping - Organization.

Abstract/Sommario: Definition and description - Distribution of wealth and income among person - The allocation of production resources - Unemployment - Profit and technical efficiency - The problem of incentive - The problem of allocating production resources under socialist central planning - Problems connected with the rate of interest.

Abstract/Sommario: How railway capital has been watered - From competition to charter - Labour on the railways - Early history of the Railway Unions - Railway Unions, 1906-1914 - Railway workers during and since the war.

Abstract/Sommario: A 'national system of public education' - The new outlook for the child - The prospects of the young person - The hope of a new democracy - The opportunity of the teacher - The parent's part - The duty of the employer - The responsibility of the local education authority - The claim upon our citizenship.

Abstract/Sommario: The basis of efforts - Nature of the wage system - Criticism of the wage system - Minimum rate and standard wage - Scientific management - A wages policy.

Abstract/Sommario: A general survey - The charter of labour - Industrial organization - Economic policy - The corporation of agriculture - Industry - Professional men - Social services and education - Political constitution.

Abstract/Sommario: Too little production - where the money goes - The balance of payments - The source of the strain - The problem of sterling - Socialist and conservative economics - The climacteric of 1955 - Tories in search a policy 1956-8 - Another breathing space - A way forward.

Abstract/Sommario: Introduction to principles - Introduction to technique - Cost variation - Labour cost standards - Material cost standards - Overhead cost standards - Labour cost control - Material cost control - Cost control of production departments - Cost control of the supply of services - Sales cost standards and control - Cost summarization and financial control.

Abstract/Sommario: The economist's study of labor - The status of the worker - the quality of the labor force - The deployment of the labor force - The fixing of rates of pay: conventional and market forces - The fixing of rates of pay: collective bargaining and public regulation - The general level of realpay.