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Sumner Huber Slichter, 1892-1959.

Labor economist at Harvard and popular apologist commentator. 

After undergraduate training at Wisconsin and a Ph.D. at Chicago, Sumner H. Slichter began his academic career at Cornell in 1920.  In 1930, Slicther was lured to Harvard, where he would divide his time between the business school and the economics department.   His son, William Pence Slichter, was a pioneer in materials science.  

 Sumner H. Slichter was adamantly opposed to the labor movement, and called repeatedly for legislation against unionization. Slichter was also a critic of the New Deal.

 

  

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Major Works of Sumner H.  Slichter

  • Turnover of Factory Labor, 1919
  • Modern Economic Society, 1931
  • "Should the Budget be Balanced", 1932, New Repubic [online]
  • "New Wisdom for a New Age: Review of Keynes's Essays in Persuasion", 1932, New Republic
  • "The Changing Character of American Industrial Relations", 1939, AER
  • Union Policies and Industrial Management, 1941.
  • "What do the Strikes Teach Us?", 1946, Atlantic Monthly [online]
  • "Wage-Price Flexibility and Employment", 1946, AER
  • Challenge of Industrial Relations, 1946.
  • Basic Criteria used in Wage Determination, 1947
  • American Economy: Its problems and prospects, 1948.
  • Impact of Collective Bargaining on Management, 1960.
  • Potentials of the American Economy, 1961.

 
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Resources on  Sumner Slichter

  • Wikipedia
  • "M"  in J. Conrad et al, (1891-94) Handwörterbuch der Staatswissenschaften [2nd ed, 1898-1901]

 

 
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