Congress passes the Employment Act of 1946
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- The Visible Hand whole source · open book
The continuance of a vast national mass market was further assured when, early in 1946, Congress passed the Employment Act, which committed the federal government
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- Employment Act of 1946 whole source
Federal Reserve History source for the act and its institutions.
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- preceded Samuelson's Economics mainstreams the Keynesian synthesis 1948 Policy adoption and textbook synthesis reinforced each other in the postwar settlement.
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- Harry Truman mentioned
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- this preceded Samuelson's Economics mainstreams the Keynesian synthesis
- Publication of The General Theory enabled this