The balancing of economic forces: Second progress report of American engineering council

The second progress report of Council is divided into 2 parts: (1) An analysis of 40 alleged causes of business instability, and (2) a selected group of 23 individual plans to prevent or minimize the effects of business recession. Part 1 of this second progress report is presented herewith in essentially full text, without comment, but with an open invitation for comments, criticisms, and suggestions.