Table of Contents

Editors' preface; Preface; 1. The debate over controls; 2. Forgotten experiments; 3. World War I; 4. World War II: attacking inflation directly; 5. World War II: the market under controls; 6. The Korean War; 7. The Vietnam War; 8. Lessons for the recent crisis; Notes; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index.

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A history of America's use of wage and price controls from colonial times to the 1970s.