The Response of the Giant Corporations to Wage and Price Controls in World War II
重新审视二战期间巨型企业配合工资与价格管制的程度,通过法院案例和行政官员回忆录分析,发现合规记录良好,但依赖于战时分配和集体谈判的约束。
This paper reexamines the extent to which the giant corporations cooperated with wage and price controls during World War II, an issue to which Galbraith first drew attention. Two forms of evidence are explored: a sample of court cases involving the Office of Price Administration and large corporations, and the monographs in which former administrators reflected on their wartime experiences. The conclusion is that the compliance record could be characterized as a good one, but that this achievement depended on the constraints on allocation and collective bargaining that existed during the war.