Modern Governments - Progress or Regress?

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[1] What is modern government about?
What is progress, what is regress, in this connection?

A time of rapid, sudden change in the social régime.

The relationship of the political to the economic system of changing everywhere.

500-600 Million people involved.

I. Economic system

A/ Description of the economic system.

a. production governed by prices. Interest, rent, comod. prices, wages.Markets for everything.
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B/ Economic and Society.

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II. Political system

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III. Crisis

IV. Progress and Regress

[3] Back to a society in which can feel responsible effort for the whole. Facing a real cris. Both superior to the old type liberal Capitalism.

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Reference:
Lecture: Gresham's School - Outline, 1937
Date: Jan. 29th, 1937
KPA: 17/18