I. Rough Classification of the Proposals, 104.— Planning of Public Works, 104.— Monetary and Credit Control, 105.— Disaccordance between Production and Distribution, 106.— Reorganization of Industry, 107. — II. Proposals from Business. Donham, 108.—Javits, 109.— The Swope Plan and its discussion, 109.— Crowther, 112.— III. Proposals for Social Control from non-business quarters; Loucks, Lorwin, Person, Clark, 113.— Soule, Chase, Beard, 117.— IV. Concluding Comments, 119.

I. Complexity of the issues, 177. — II. The Colorado River Basin, 181; Interests of the Imperial Valley in the project, 181; Interests of Los Angeles and neighboring cities, 183. — III. Interests of the Upper-Basin States, 185; The Colorado River Compact, 188; Arizona's interests, 188. — IV. Cost estimates and other figures, 191. — V. Administrative aspects of the Boulder Dam project act, 192; Financial provisions of the act, 194. — VI. Contracts for the allocation of electrical power rights, 197; Comparison of costs of hydro-electric and steam-generated power, 200; Total financial cost to the Los Angeles area, 202. — VII. Fundamental questions. (1) Long-run economic expediency, 205; (2) Immediate economic expediency, 206; (3) Political expediency, 209; (4) The policy of federal enterprise in the power industry, 213; Conclusion, 216.

Introduction, 345.—Jones, 347.—Jenks and Clark, 348.—Watkins, 350.—Seager and Gulick, 355.—Levy, 360.—Fitzgerald, 361.—National Industrial Conference Board publications: Mergers in Industry, 363;—Mergers and the Law, 366.—Alsberg, 369.—Toulmin, 370.—Javits, 370.—Frederick, 371.—Conclusions: “the trust problem” a misnomer, 372; many questions still unanswered, 373.

I. Controversies in economic theory are of varying importance, — The explanatory and instrumental aspects of economic theory, 335. — Changing facts and social theories, 337. — II. The place of “facts” in economic controversy, 339. — The relation of psychology to economic theory, 343. — Mechanistic and organic social theories as a source of controversy, 347. — Difficulties arising out of the organic analogy, 349. — III. The philosophy of “social control,” 351. — IV. Chaotic possibilities of “viewpoints” in economics, 355. — Uses and limitations of the mechanistic view, 356. — Types of new “approaches” to economics, and their limitations, 359. — Sacrifices entailed in eliminating controversies, 360. — The scientific character of economics, old and new, 362.

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