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Alvin Hansen Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031422157 327 $aIntro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Outline -- Bibliography -- References -- From "Just a Simple Farm-Boy" to the Ivy League -- Wisconsin and the American Institutionalists -- Providence, Teaching at Brown University -- The Move to Minneapolis -- Harvard Calls -- Bibliography -- References -- Foundations -- Early Views on Labour Economics -- Initial Views on the Business Cycle -- The Mechanism of the Cycle -- The Cumulative Nature of the Cycle -- Self Limitation of the Cycle -- Foundation Stones -- Bibliography -- References -- Building a Reputation at Minnesota -- Teaching at Minnesota -- A Jazz Age of Boom and Bust -- The Employment Stabilization Research Institute -- Economic Stabilization in an Unbalanced World -- The Great Depression as a Combined Cyclical Event -- The Influence of Population Trends -- Questions of Stabilisation -- Critical Reaction -- Bibliography -- References -- Hansen and the New Deal Policies -- Bibliography -- References -- In the Service of the State: Unemployment Insurance, the Federal Reserve, and the Employment Act -- Unemployment Insurance -- The Minnesota Unemployment Reserve Plans -- The 1935 Social Security Act -- Trade and the State Department -- The NRPB and Federal Reserve -- Other Aspects of Post-War Planning -- The American White Paper and the Employment Act of 1946 -- Guaranteed Wage Plans -- Bibliography -- References -- Later Trade Cycle Theory: Technical Progress and Dynamics -- Cycle Theory in the 1930s and 1940s -- Technological Progress -- Cycle Theory in the 1950s -- Towards a Dynamic Theory -- Another Side to Progress -- Bibliography -- References -- Secular Stagnation -- Formation -- The American Economic Association Presidential Address -- Reaction and Refinement. 327 $aStagnation as an Optimistic Approach to Policy -- Decline and Revival -- Bibliography -- References -- Teaching at Harvard -- Bibliography -- References -- Savings and Investment Analysis -- Savings and Investment Analysis -- The Debates of the 1930s -- A Pre-Keynesian Consensus-Waiting it Out -- The Multiplier and the Question of Consumer Durables -- Evidence to the Temporary National Economic Committee -- More Robertsonian than Keynesian? -- The Institutional Framework for Savings and Investment -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- References -- On Keynes -- An Initial Scepticism -- Coming Round -- Conversion or Convenience? -- Exposition and Extension -- A Guide to Keynes -- The Consumption Function -- Criticisms of Hansen's 'Keynesian' Model -- On the Evolution of Keynes's Thought -- Hansen's Contribution to American Keynesianism -- Bibliography -- References -- Money, Wages, and Prices -- Money and Credit -- Wage and Price Flexibility -- An Evolving View -- Bibliography -- References -- Managing the Mixed Economy -- The End of Laissez-Faire -- Policies for the Post-War World -- Improving Economic Data -- Inflation -- Stabilisation Comes of Age -- Bibliography -- References -- America and the World Economy -- Early Insights -- An International Aspect to Stabilisation -- The Post-War New Order -- International Equilibrium and the Balance of Payments -- Looking to the 1960s and 1970s -- Bibliography -- References -- A Wider Perspective -- Methodology and the History of Thought -- A Pragmatic Toolbox -- An Empirically Tested Evolution Rather than Abstract Mathematical Elegance -- Keynesianism in America -- A Broader View: More than Just Bricks and Mortar -- The New Frontier -- Secular Stagnation or Opportunity? -- Seeking a Suitable Stabilisation: The Search for a Good Society -- Bibliography -- References -- Bibliography -- Works by Alvin Hansen. 327 $a1915 -- 1920 -- 1921 -- 1922 -- 1923 -- 1924 -- 1925 -- 1926 -- 1927 -- 1928 -- 1930 -- 1931 -- 1932 -- 1933 -- 1934 -- 1935 -- 1936 -- 1937 -- 1938 -- 1939 -- 1940 -- 1941 -- 1942 -- 1943 -- 1944 -- 1945 -- 1946 -- 1947 -- 1948 -- 1949 -- 1950 -- 1951 -- 1952 -- 1953 -- 1954 -- 1955 -- 1956 -- 1957 -- 1958 -- 1959 -- 1960 -- 1961 -- 1962 -- 1963 -- 1964 -- 1965 -- 1966 -- 1967 -- 1969 -- 1970 -- 1974 -- Other -- Obituaries -- Archives -- References -- Index. 410 0$aGreat Thinkers in Economics Series 676 $a330.092 700 $aBigg$b Robert J$0119587 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910765495003321 996 $aAlvin Hansen$93645555 997 $aUNINA