Book Reviews: Defense, Controls, and Inflation: A Conference Sponsored by the University of Chicago Law School. Edited by AARON DIRECTOR. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1952. Pp. x, 342. $3.50.)

• Published date: 01 December 1952
• Date: 01 December 1952
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/106591295200500464
• Subject Matter: Articles

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relationships

are

developing.

Some

effort

has

been

made

to

include,

very

briefly,

anecdotes

and

observations

of

the

less

formal

relationships

that

surround

most

intergovernmental

programs.

There

has

been

no

attempt

made

to

give

any

of

the

human

side

of

the

story,

to

discuss

the

influence

of

an

individual

surgeon

general

or

state

health

director.

This

is

a

formal

study;

it

is

a

careful

setting

forth

of

the

patterns

of

intergovernmental

relations

now

determined

by

statute

and

administrative

agreement.

Federal-state

relations

and

federal-state-local

relations

bulk

rather

larger

than

state-local

or

inter,local

relations.

In

this

respect

the

Minnesota

scene

differs

rather

markedly

from

the

California

one.

In

the

latter

.

there

is

a

considerable

development

of

inter-local

relationships,

both

by

formal,

statutory

means

and

by

less

formal

processes.

In

both

states,

how-

ever,

it

is

now

well

established

that

the

three

levels

of

government

are

closely

interlocked

in

conducting

most

phases

of

present-day

public

health

work,

although

each

level

specializes

in

certain

phases

of

the

program.

Mr.

Wyatt’s

monograph

is

a

laudable

addition

to

the

scanty

literature

concerned

with

public

health

administration.

It

is

a

welcome

addition

to

the

equally

small

group

devoted

to

intergovernmental

relations.

University

of

California,

Los

Angeles.

WINSTON

W.

CROUCH.

Defense,

Controls,

and

Inflation:

A

Conference

Sponsored

by

the

Uni-

versity

of

Chicago

Law

School.

Edited

by

AARON

DIRECTOR.

(Chicago:

The

University

of

Chicago

Press.

1952.

Pp.

x,

342.

$3.50.)

The

volume

consists

in

a

transcript

of

the

proceedings

of

the

seven

sessions

of

the

conference,

which

covered

the

following

topics:

the

roles

of

monetary

policy,

fiscal

policy,

public

expenditures,

and

direct

controls,

and

the

impact

of

rearmament

on

the

British

economy

and

on

free

insti-

tutions

generally.

It

is

a

recording

of

expert

opinion

on

the

outlined

issues.

The

conference

seemed

to

turn

on

the

theme

of

the

nature

and

extent

of

controls

which

should

be

applied

by

government

during

the

mobilization

program.

While

it

is

stated

in

the

introduction

that

there

was

agreement

on

the

nature

of

the

major

issues

and

on

the

general

approach

to

solutions

of

the

problems

posed

by

those

issues,

nevertheless

a

reading

of

the

book

discloses

a

wide

disparity

in

the

opinions

of

individual

participants.

Concerning

the

question

as

to

the

degree

of

direct

(wage

and

price)

controls

to

be

applied

in

contrast

to

the

degree

of

indirect

(monetary

and

fiscal)

controls,

there

appears

to

have

been

such

a

range

of

opinion

that

only

the

widest

interpretation

could

call

the

results

&dquo;agreement.&dquo;

The

resulting

transcript

of

the

proceedings

is

absorbing

and

informative

reading.

- -

Washington

and

Lee

University.

HOWARD

L.

BALSLEY.