Economics general files, 1929-1980.

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Economics general files, 1929-1980.

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The records document Consumers' Research's view of the threats, barriers, theories, and practices relating to the health of the American economic system. Included are correspondence, magazine and newspaper clippings, manuals, pamphlets, and brochures. These files were used by CR editors to back-up editorial commentaries. Subjects include economic theory, economic radicalism, capitalism, free enterprise systems, the decay of economic competition, the Great Depression (1929), "portents of the next depression," economic planning, business, business ethics, Big Business vs. Little Business, quality control and product liability, production costs, monopolies and trusts, home industry, distribution costs, forced obsolescence, income, wages and salary, cost of living, banks and banking, investment, taxation, income taxes, inflation and deflation, tariffs, prices, price mark-ups, price fixing, resale prices, consumption economics, and bibliographic materials on consumption.

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For details of the history of Consumers' Research, Inc. and an overview of its records, see the introduction to this finding aid . From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc., General Files, Series 28-45 (only)., 1903-1982, (Special Collections and University Archives. Rutgers University Libraries) From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc.: Administrative Files: Series 1-15, 1917-1983, (Rutgers University. Special Collections and University Ar...