W

Wages

during a depression, 14, 19, 40, 44, 47, 50, 52–53, 171, 185, 212, 246, 248, 265, 267–70, 293, 331–32, 334–35

government coercion of, 43, 45–46, 202

in Britain

Keynesian theory of, 42, 50

marginal productivity theory applied to, 43

Wager Act, 250–52, 264–65, 293

Wagner, Robert F., 197, 250, 265–66, 272, 292

Wald, Lillian, 194, 251

Walker, Amasa, 28, 34, 36

Wallace, Henry A., 174, 221, 223, 225, 310, 313

Wallace, Henry C., 220, 225

Walrasian system, 66, 69, 70, 73

Walsh, David I., 309

War Finance Corporation, 122, 191, 218–20, 274–75

Warbasse, J.P., 251

Warburg, Felix M., 194

Warburg, Paul M., 127–29, 132, 155–56, 175

Ware, Norman J., 266

Warne, Colston E., 251

Warren, George F., 176

Warren, Harris Gaylord, 141, 189–90, 200, 232, 247, 284, 288, 290, 319

Warren, Robert B., 151, 316

Watkins, Gordon S., 251

Watkins, Myron W., 292

Watkins, Ralph J., 284

Wehle, Louis, 276

Wendt, Paul F., 274

West, Bradford W., 319

Weyforth, William O., 251

Wheat, 132, 223–25, 227, 229, 231, 242, 248, 273

Wheeler, Burton K., 308

White, William Allen, 189, 273

Whitney, A.F., 212, 306

Whitney, George, 163, 274

Whitney, Richard, 246

Whittlesey, Charles R., 312

Wicksell, Knut, 157

Wiggin, Albert H., 249, 274, 317

Wilbur, Ray Lyman, 209, 284

Willcox, W.F., 292

Williams, Carl, 228

Williams, John H., 315

Williams, John Skelton, 121

Willis, H. Parker, 76, 118, 121, 132, 135, 150, 156, 167, 175, 248, 314, 327

Willits, Joseph H., 197, 251, 264, 295, 312

Willoughby, William F., 251

Wilson, Charles S., 228

Wilson, Huntington, 174

Wilson, William B., 189

Wilson, Woodrow, 117, 137, 174, 189, 192–94, 219

Winant, John G., 174, 197

Windegger, F.R. von, 325

Wisconsin, 196, 235–36, 323

Wise, Stephen S., 194

Witte, Edwin E., 251, 292

Woll, Matthew, 195, 212, 251, 273, 277

Wolman, Leo, 194–95, 205, 253, 264, 266–68, 312

Wood, Robert E., 309

Woodhouse, Chase Going, 251

Woods, Arthur, 246–47, 253

Wool, 224, 232, 248

Woolley, Clarence, 195

Work hours, See Hours of labor

World War I, 279, 328

World War II, 45

Wright, C.W., 314

Wright, Ivan, 311, 314

Wright, Quincy, 313

Wyatt, Walter, 275

Wyoming, 269