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Keeping Down with the Joneses.

Authors :
Curran, Charles
Source :
New Republic. 3/3/58, Vol. 138 Issue 9, p13-15. 3p.
Publication Year :
1958

Abstract

Focuses on the economic conditions in Great Britain and change in mass opinion regarding the economic issue from time to time. Views that inflation is Great Britain's biggest domestic problem; Devaluation of the currency of Great Britain; Attempts of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to handle the economic problem; Demands by the trade unions to stop curb in wages; Opinion that Great Britain had to abandon capitalism to win the war; Employment for the population guaranteed in the armed forces; Allocation of goods and services on the basis of presumed need; Rejection of the Industrial Revolution by the common man in Britain; Effect of mass unemployment on the British economy.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00286583
Volume :
138
Issue :
9
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
New Republic
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
14437049