Journal Article Does the Consumer Benefit from Price Instability? Get access L. D. Howell L. D. Howell Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Washington, D. C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 59, Issue 2, February 1945, Pages 287–295, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884829 Published: 01 February 1945

I. Confusion in translating the concept "saving" into concrete statistical measurement, 106. — II. Saving vs. investment, 108. — III. Measuring the rate of saving, 111. — IV. Relation between saving and investment, 113. — Statistical verification, 116. — Advantages of selecting the typical accounting period as the time interval, 116. — V. No confusion with hoarding, 119.— The "producer-consumer investment ratio, " 119.

Journal Article Some Effects of the Personal Income Tax Get access Philip D. Bradley Philip D. Bradley Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 58, Issue 1, December 1943, Pages 134–140, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885760 Published: 01 December 1943

Definition of direct tax effect, 638. — The theory of the firm, 639. — Diagrammatic presentation, 642. — The tax ratio, 644. — The tax ratio as a variable: a progressive tax, 646. — Comparison of tax effects and interest effects, 647. — The tax ratio as a constant: a proportional tax, 649. — Plans of more than two years' duration, 650. — Effects of the tax on other economic parameters, 652. — Implications for the theory of investment, 653. — Other implications, 654.

Present status of the concept of unemployment, 1. — Willingness to work: gross and net unemployment, 7; statistical indications for 1940, 11. — Employability: marginal employables, 13; legal unemployables, 14; cumulative unemployment, 15; institutional unemployables, 18. — Suppressed unemployment: part-time unemployment of wage workers, 19; part-time unemployment of non-wage earners, 20; unproductive employment, 20; statistical estimates, 21. — Summary of statistical approximations, 25. — Recommendations for improving current estimates, 27. — Conclusion, 28.

Journal Article The Incidence of Sales Taxes: Rejoinder Get access Donald W. Gilbert Donald W. Gilbert University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 54, Issue 4_Part_1, August 1940, Pages 686–693, https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/54.4_Part_1.686 Published: 01 August 1940

Journal Article Rejoinder Get access John D. Black John D. Black Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 54, Issue 2, February 1940, Pages 316–317, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883339 Published: 01 February 1940

Nature and coverage of the data, 372. — The statistical technique, 375. — The timing of the cycles, 377. — Comparison with general business fluctuations, 380. — Causes of the differences, 381. — The duration of long cycles, 386. — The rôle of war, 387. — Factors responsible for cycles in American building, 388. — The severity of long cycles, 391. — Causes: the acceleration principle, 393; ready-made production, 394; high proportion of rigid and direct costs, 397; profits and the rate of interest, 400. — Summary, 402.

Journal Article Public Utility Rate Making in Depression: A Comment Get access John D. Sumner John D. Sumner The University of Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 52, Issue 4, August 1938, Pages 713–717, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885043 Published: 01 August 1938