Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/94307 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
1996
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 1995-13
Publisher: 
Rutgers University, Department of Economics, New Brunswick, NJ
Abstract: 
According to the standard accounts of the mobilization of resources in the United States during WWII, things went badly in the beginning because the agencies in charge were given insufficient authority and were mismanaged. But then in 1943 the story continues, the War Production Board installed the famous Controlled Materials Plan which solved the major problems and turned disaster into triumph. A reexamination of the Plan in the light of information on munitions production, however, reveals that the Plan was too little and too late to account for the success of the mobilization. One implication is that pecuniary incentives may have played a larger role than has been recognized.
Subjects: 
Controls
World War II
JEL: 
N1
N4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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