Includes index.

Contents: The Economic framework: Introduction -- Population -- Natural resources -- Capital -- Corporations -- The Level of jobs, incomes, prices and production: Unemployment -- Inflation -- Economic growth -- Monetary policy -- Fiscal policy -- On Markets and prices: The Elements of a market system -- Prices and pricing in selected markets -- Issues in antitrust policy -- Income distribution among productive factors: Land -- Labor -- Capital and entrepreneurship -- The United States in the world economy: International trade -- Foreign exchange and the balance of payments -- The United States and the underdeveloped economies -- America's unfinished business: Introduction -- Automation -- The Attack on poverty -- Education -- Education -- Metropolitanism -- Race relations -- Disarmament -- Government and the private economy -- Comparative economic systems: The Marxian view -- The Communist economies -- Planning in a democracy -- Capitalism in perspective.