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Problems in price control: pricing standards.

Title
Problems in price control: pricing standards.
Author
Cavers, David F. (David Farquhar), 1902-1988.
Publication
[Washington] Office of Temporary Controls, Office of Price Administration [1948]

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Additional Authors
  • Eckert, James B.
  • United States. Office of Temporary Controls.
Description
xvii, 522 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
Attempts to explain pricing control and pricing standard enacted by the OPA as they relate to Congressional law-making and judicial review. There is extensive analysis on the Barkley-Taft Amendment, especially as it related to pricing standards enacted during World War II as well as the formulation process used to determine standards.
Series Statement
  • Historical reports on war administration
  • Office of Temporary Controls, Office of Price Administration. General Publication, no. 7
  • United States. United States Government historical reports on war administration.
Alternative Title
Pricing standards.
Subject
  • Price regulation > United States
  • Price regulation
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Ch. 1. General nature of OPA pricing standards / by David F. Cavers -- ch. 2. The industry earnings standard / by Reed Dickerson -- ch. 3. The minimum product standard and other safeguards for "generally fair and equitable" maximum prices / by Jerome A. Levinson -- ch. 4. Basic legislative standards for agricultural commodities / by Sol. A. Segal -- ch. 5. The changing character of product price adjustments / by Peter G. Franck -- ch. 6. The Bankhead-Brown Amendment / by Robert J. Karon -- ch. 7. The Barkley-Taft Amendment / by Peter G. Franck -- ch. 8. Reconversion and transition pricing standards / by James B. Eckert -- ch. 9. The place of individual seller adjustments in the price control program / by S. Sterling McMillan -- ch. 10. Adjustment of abnormally low prices under the general maximum price regulation / S. Sterling McMillan -- ch. 11. Individual seller adjustments for reconversion and transition industries / by Kenneth G. Matheson -- ch. 12. Decontrol standards / by Kenneth G. Matheson -- Appendix A. Examples of minimum product standard adjustments -- Appendix B. The Barkley-Taft Amendment.
LCCN
48046394
OCLC
  • ocm16749235
  • 16749235
  • SCSB-2112162
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library