Investigation Of Concentration Of Economic Power Technology In Our Economy

Author : Temporary National Economic Committee
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334475177
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power written by Temporary National Economic Committee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power: A Study Made for the Temporary National Economic Committee, Seventy-Sixth Congress, Third Session, Pursuant to Public Resolution No. 113 (Seventy-Fifth Congress); Monograph No. 22-24, Technology in Our Economy It is now more than a decade and a half since the phrase tech nological unemployment was coined in the United States. In its first coinage the phrase was meant to convey the idea that technical progress was a factor in decreasing employment and that society was being confronted more and more with the problem of machines versus men. In the 15 years since the phrase became common cur reney in this popular sense, an almost incessant debate - sometimes more and sometimes less heated - has been going on as to what the phrase really meant; whether what it meant to denote was a fact or a mere figment of the imagination; if a real fact, how serious was it for national welfare and what could or should be done about it. What has been said on both sides of the question is registered in an extensive literature - ih the technical discussions of the American statistical and economic associations, in numerous articles in the more or less popular magazines, in editorials in the trade press, in volumi nous reports and studies of private research agencies and govern mental bureaus, and in the elaborate depositions and statements made in public hearings held by congressional committees and by other official or semiofficial bodies. It cannot be said that this rather prolonged debate has settled the main issue raised. Today, as a decade ago, opinion in the United States is still divided between the opposing views that may be held on the subject. On the one hand. It is still claimed by some that the factor which is of special significance in making the problem of unemployment what it. Is today is that of technology. Not only the number of the unemployed, but their distribution by occupations, the duration of their unemployment, and their chances for being reem ployed are presumably in uenced in large measure. If not primarily. By the technological changes which have been taking place during the past two decades and which promise to continue in the discernible future. On the other hand, there are those in this country as well as. Abroad who either deny the existence of technological unemploy ment entirely or regard it as of minor importance. To many of these the very term is a misnomer whose use merely tends to confuse the real issues. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."