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See also Voluntary exchange
Carnegie Commission on Higher
Education, 179–81, 182–83,
185
Carnegie Foundation, 139, 179, 181
Carpenter, Ed, 159–60
Carson, Rachel, 189, 205
Cartels, international, 53–54, 225.
See also OPEC
Carter, Jimmy, 68, 112, 124, 219,
220, 221, 297
Central economic planning, 8–10,
95, 146, 285. See also Com-
mand system
compared with voluntary ex-
change, 54—64
in U.S. (see United States, gov-
ernment control in)
Charity, 36–37, 123, 133, 139–40,
145
Chase, Salmon P., 307–8
Chiang Kai-shek, 70, 253
Chicago (Illinois), 139–40, 158, 244
Childs, Marquis, 100
China, 70
China, People
'
s Republic of, 3, 24,
53, 57, 61, 70, 135, 146–
48, 253, 254
Churchill, Winston, 99
Civil Aeronautics Board, 200
Civilian Conservation Corps
( CCC), 94
Civil War, 128, 131, 194, 256–62,
307
Clark, Kenneth B., 172
Cleveland, Grover, 197
Coal mining, 241–42
Colleges and universities, 152, 175–
87
"affirmative action" and, 187
city- and state-supported, 175–
83, 185, 186
equal educational opportunity
and, 180–83, 188
private, 176–78, 180, 185, 186
problems with, 175–83
quality of, 175–78
social benefits of education at,
178–81
student loans for, 183–85, 188
voucher system for, 185–86, 188
Columbia University, 92
Command system, 8–11, 14, 17, 22,
23–24, 97. See also Central
economic planning
Communes, 142–43
Communist countries, 24, 53, 55,
61, 70, 253, 254. See also
names of countries
central economic planning in, 8—
10, 55, 56, 57, 146—47
income distribution in, 146—47

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Index
329
Comparative advantage, principle
of, 44—45
Comprehensive
Employment and
Training Act (CETA), 111
Congress of Racial Equality, 166
Conrail, 200
Constitution, U.S., 4, 29, 130, 154—
55, 286, 287
amendments to, limiting taxes
and spending, 301—4
Bill of Rights of, 4, 130, 163—64,
286, 299
First Amendment, 163—64,
299, 305
court interpretation of, 287
proposed amendments to, 304—9
replacement of Sixteenth Amend-
ment to, 306—7
Consumer, protection of, 189—227
Consumer cooperatives, 100
Consumer Products Safety Com-
mission, 194, 210—13, 223
Consumer Reports, 224
Consumers' Research, 224
Consumers' Research, 224
Consumers Union, 224
Cooley, Thomas, 197
Corporations, 20, 67, 234, 269, 294,
306
Corvair, 189, 192
Cost-of-living adjustments to wages,
277
Council on Wage and Price Stabil-
ity, 291, 298
Courts, federal, 296, 298. See also
Supreme Court, U.S.
Czechoslovakia, 24
Dartmouth College, 177
Davis-Bacon Act, 236, 292
Dayton Air Freight, 199
Debs, Eugene V., 287
Declaration of Independence, 2, 3,
6, 128, 129, 130, 131
Deflation, 83, 87, 88
Democracy, 130-31, 162, 292
Democracy in America
(Tocque-
ville), 130
Department of Agriculture, U.S.,
204, 291—92
Department of Education, U.S., 96
Department of Energy, U.S., 17,
218—22, 292
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare (HEW), 96,
103, 104, 127, 188
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, U.S., 109
Department of Justice, U.S., 225
Department of Labor, U.S., 292
Department of the Treasury, U.S.,
225, 265
Depression
of 1920—21, 78
of 1930s (see Great Depression)
Dicey, A. V., 98, 99, 288, 297
Distribution of income, price sys-
tem and, 20—24
Dollar, 47, 77, 87—88, 248—49, 307.