The Structure of the American Economy, Vol. 1: Basic Characteristics; A Report Prepared by the Industrial Section; June 1939 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from The Structure of the American Economy<br/><br/>Earlier reports of the National Resources Committee and its predecessors have examined the Nation's material resources of land, water, and minerals; the changing character of the population which seeks to utilize these resources; and the improving engineering techniques whereby resources are used to serve human wants. In each of these reports a major aspect of the national household has been sketched in with a greater or less degree of detail in order to give a background for the development of major national policies and to provide a larger frame of reference within which specific problems in specific fields could be more intensively yzed. In this report on the Structure of the American Economy an effort is made to bring the major aspects of the national economy into focus so as to emphasize the organic character of the process whereby the Nation's resources are employed to pro vide useful commodities and services. This emphasis on organization requires that the national community he treated as a single functioning whole and in such a way that every phase of human activity is covered insofar as it involves the use of resources. Only by bringing all the different aspects of the national economy into a single frame of reference can a basis be laid for developing effective policies in respect to particular aspects. This frame of reference is so broad in scope that it has been necessary to introduce certain limitations in order to keep the report within manageable proportions. The first of these is the concentration of the report on what have been called the structural characteristics of the national economy  those characteristics which Show a high degree of continuity  changing only gradually or not at all and giving to the American economy its particular character.

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