Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Author
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction
Outline
Bibliography
References
From "Just a Simple Farm-Boy" to the Ivy League
Wisconsin and the American Institutionalists
Providence, Teaching at Brown University
The Move to Minneapolis
Harvard Calls
Bibliography
References
Foundations
Early Views on Labour Economics
Initial Views on the Business Cycle
The Mechanism of the Cycle
The Cumulative Nature of the Cycle
Self Limitation of the Cycle
Foundation Stones

The Minnesota Unemployment Reserve Plans
The 1935 Social Security Act
Trade and the State Department
The NRPB and Federal Reserve
Other Aspects of Post-War Planning
The American White Paper and the Employment Act of 1946
Guaranteed Wage Plans
Bibliography
References
Later Trade Cycle Theory: Technical Progress and Dynamics
Cycle Theory in the 1930s and 1940s
Technological Progress
Cycle Theory in the 1950s
Towards a Dynamic Theory
Another Side to Progress
Bibliography
References
Secular Stagnation
Formation

The American Economic Association Presidential Address
Reaction and Refinement
Stagnation as an Optimistic Approach to Policy
Decline and Revival
Bibliography
References
Teaching at Harvard
Bibliography
References
Savings and Investment Analysis
Savings and Investment Analysis
The Debates of the 1930s
A Pre-Keynesian Consensus-Waiting it Out
The Multiplier and the Question of Consumer Durables
Evidence to the Temporary National Economic Committee
More Robertsonian than Keynesian?
The Institutional Framework for Savings and Investment
Conclusion