Knowledge that Transforms

Journal Article New South Wales Family Endowment Act, 1927 Get access Douglass V. Brown Douglass V. Brown Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 42, Issue 3, May 1928, Pages 500–507, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884790 Published: 01 May 1928

Hawtrey, The Economic Problem Get access Paul T. Homan Paul T. Homan Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 42, Issue 4, August 1928, Pages 678–684, https://doi.org/10.2307/1882539 Published: 01 August 1928

Provisions for Agricultural Credit prior to 1913. — I. Federal rural-credit legislation since 1913, 95. — State rural-credit legislation since 1913, 103. — II. Effect of the new institutions. — Mortgage credit, 108. — Short-term credit, 111. — Terms of loans and interest rates, 115. — III. Adequacy of mortgage credit facilities, 117. — Provisions for "low-grade" loans, 120. — Appraisal methods, 122. — Mortgage credit facilities in the South, 123. — IV. Short-term credit facilities are inadequate, 124. — Bank failures, 124. — Suggestions for improvement of the country banking situation, 127. — V. Intermediate credit. Production credit in the South, 129. — VI. Conclusion, 130.

Journal Article Borrowed Reserves and Bank Expansion Get access Frederick A. Bradford Frederick A. Bradford Lehigh University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 43, Issue 1, November 1928, Pages 179–184, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883947 Published: 01 November 1928

Journal Article The Currency Settlement in England Get access Alfred Plummer Alfred Plummer Ruskin College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 43, Issue 1, November 1928, Pages 171–179, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883946 Published: 01 November 1928

The Philadelphia tapestry manufacture, 450.—The mills classed in Groups A, B, C, 452. — Hourly and weekly earnings at different mills compared, 453.—Entrances to Class A mills, 455.—Entrances to Class B mills, 459.—Entrances to Class C mills, 461.—Conclusion, 463.

The problem and its relation to the supply and demand control of rates of exchange involving future goods, — I. Comparative values of futures and spots in relation to available supplies from crops, 368. — A future trade is an exchange of future money for a future commodity, and does not involve present goods, 370. — II. Indications of a downward bias in grain and cotton futures call for explanation, 372. — III. Bohm-Bawerk's theory of a discount on the future is quite another matter, 375. — IV. But a difference in the relative valuation of money and any specific commodity may be expected according to whether the comparison pertains to the present or to the future, 377. — This situation as expressed in terms of mathematical inequalities, 379. — V. Commercial experience and observation of the comparative value of “immediates,” 379. — The downward bias costly to hedge sellers, 383. — VI. Conclusion, — The present article calls attention to a neglected condition, and perhaps suggests a needed addition to theory, 385.

Journal Article Ricardo's Notes on Malthus Get access E. S. Mason E. S. Mason Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 42, Issue 4, August 1928, Pages 684–696, https://doi.org/10.2307/1882540 Published: 01 August 1928

I. The decreasing cost schedule as a schedule of uniform or average cost, 170. — Incompatible with rent, 170. — Marshall's particular expenses curve and its uses, 171. — II. Professor Knight's prediction that an increased demand increases normal price, 175. — It ignores possible economies, 177. — It overlooks reduced demand elsewhere, 178. — III. The possibility of increasing cost, 180. — Professor Sraffa's view, 181. — Professor Pigou's view, 183. — Professor H. E. Miller on consumers' surplus, 185. — IV. The maximum satisfaction doctrine, 189. — Professor Pigou's statement, 189. — Marshall's treatment, 190. — Method and assumptions in dealing with the tax and the bounty as one problem, 191. — Four cases, 193. — The general conclusion, 196.