Word: consumerization
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Statistically, last week was another week of superlatives: practically every business index went up except consumer-goods stocks, which hit a new low for the year.
Under Minister of Civilian Supply Axel Gjöres, a former director of Sweden's Cooperative Union, claiming 750,000 consumer families as members, the Swedes run their wartime economy with regulations and ration books. Black markets are controlled through vigorous prosecution. Mounting defense expenditures ($507,500,000 in...
Britain has held the line through the shrewd use of subsidies. Under them the Government pays a premium for increased production without directly penalizing the lowincome, consumer (although other consumers, as taxpayers, pay in the end). The Ministry of Food buys up most of the supply of some goods, for...
Nor are subsidies a substitute for a bolder tax program to trim purchasing power into line with the shortage of consumer goods.
Rule-of-thumb rationing down the line to the ultimate consumer has resulted in all kinds of inequalities. States with local liquor control compounded the confusion; 13 of the 17 liquor-monopoly states have instituted rationing. Thus the per capita quota runs from a pint a week in Virginia to...