| 单词 | jawboning |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjawboning jawboning n. U.S. slang name applied to a policy, first associated with the administration of President Lyndon Johnson (1963–1969), of urging management and union leaders to adopt a policy of restraint in wage and price negotiations. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > an economic policy > specific policies and actions protection1719 co-operation1817 tariff-reform1859 monetary union1866 border protection1875 rationalization1875 tariffication1892 tariffade1904 inflationism1919 NEP1923 war communism1928 voodoo economics1930 substantivism1931 sterilization1938 deficit spending1941 deficit financing1943 tax-and-spend1956 indexation1960 stop-go1964 incomes policy1965 scala mobile1965 quantitative easing1966 jawboning1969 Nixonomics1969 developmentalism1970 degrowth1971 inflation-proofing1973 NEB1973 dollarization1982 fiscal engineering1982 Rogernomics1985 1969 Time 10 Oct. 57 As for jawboning, Nixon's Republican advisers consider it unfair and almost immoral to single out individual companies or industries. 1970 Daily Tel. 19 June 15 Policy will almost certainly concentrate on ‘jawboning’, the American tactic of trying belatedly to talk both sides of industry out of outlandish wage and price increases. 1970 Harper's Mag. Mar. 48 Lecturing business and labor on their responsibilities to hold down prices and wages—jawboning as it was called in the Johnson Administration—has been foregone. 1970 Times 7 Nov. 7/1 He criticized the Nixon Administration's decision on coming to office to drop the practice of ‘jawboning’, or presidential persuasion, on the prices and wages front. < as lemmas |
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