Written during the Second World War against the background of the economic and political futility of the 1930s, this book deals with the changing role of government, and particularly fiscal policy as an instrument for regulating the national income and its distribution. Arguing that the war had an economic basis - the inability of the great industrial nations to provide full employment at rising standards of real income - the book discusses how the failure to achieve a world order in the political sphere must be sought in the facts of economic frustration.

Written during the Second World War against the background of the economic and political futility of the 1930s, this book deals with the changing role of government, and particularly fiscal policy as an instrument for regulating the national income and its distribution. Arguing that the war had an economic basis - the inability of the great industrial nations to provide full employment at rising standards of real income - the book discusses how the failure to achieve a world order in the political sphere must be sought in the facts of economic frustration.

This is a new release of the original 1939 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1939 edition.

This edition (1964) of Business Cycles and National Income includes the whole of the 1951 edition (Parts I-IV) in unaltered form and adds five new chapters (Part V). This new material presents a survey and analysis of the four recessions and recoveries which we have witnessed in the American economy in the periods 1948-1963.