Context: In the light of recent latest quarterly GDP growth numbers suggesting 20% growth from last year, the distribution of income and therefore the pattern of economic growth have become a matter of even greater than usual concern.
Positive growth trends
Concerns underlying the economic growth: Due to decrease in consumer demand denoted by following parameters -
Conclusion: Henry Ford could see in 1914 that paying his workers better would lay the groundwork for boosting consumer demand. That is what the government should be trying to engineer today, along with a lowering of the currently high levels of unemployment.