Wartime Production Achievements and the Reconversion Outlook

Wartime Production Achievements and the Reconversion Outlook
Author: United States. War Production Board
Publisher:
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1945
Genre: Industrial priorities
ISBN:

Chairman J.A. Krug warns against complacency in mobilizing the nation for war. He suggests that we capitalize on what we've learned before the next emergency is upon us. He states that the adequacy of our preparations for mobilization of the economy may depend on the future of our nation.

Electrify

Electrify
Author: Saul Griffith
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2022-10-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0262545047

An optimistic--but realistic and feasible--action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment: electrify everything. Climate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now—but what? Saul Griffith has a plan. In Electrify, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint—optimistic but feasible—for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Griffith’s plan can be summed up simply: electrify everything. He explains exactly what it would take to transform our infrastructure, update our grid, and adapt our households to make this possible. Billionaires may contemplate escaping our worn-out planet on a private rocket ship to Mars, but the rest of us, Griffith says, will stay and fight for the future. Griffith, an engineer and inventor, calls for grid neutrality, ensuring that households, businesses, and utilities operate as equals; we will have to rewrite regulations that were created for a fossil-fueled world, mobilize industry as we did in World War II, and offer low-interest “climate loans.” Griffith’s plan doesn’t rely on big, not-yet-invented innovations, but on thousands of little inventions and cost reductions. We can still have our cars and our houses—but the cars will be electric and solar panels will cover our roofs. For a world trying to bounce back from a pandemic and economic crisis, there is no other project that would create as many jobs—up to twenty-five million, according to one economic analysis. Is this politically possible? We can change politics along with everything else.

War Potential of Nations

War Potential of Nations
Author: Klaus Eugen Knorr
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2015-12-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1400879485

In this closely reasoned analysis of the various elements which constitute the latent military strength of nations the author takes up economic capacity, "the will to fight," and the administrative skill of government, and shows how they may be developed and evaluated in the contemporary setting. He has drawn on a wealth of historical material for various countries and relevant research in political science, economics, sociology, and psychology. Originally published in 1956. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Drastic Measures

Drastic Measures
Author: Hugh Rockoff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2004-02-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521522038

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