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.
I. Controversies in economic theory are of varying importance, — The explanatory and instrumental aspects of economic theory, 335. — Changing facts and social theories, 337. — II. The place of “facts” in economic controversy, 339. — The relation of psychology to economic theory, 343. — Mechanistic and organic social theories as a source of controversy, 347. — Difficulties arising out of the organic analogy, 349. — III. The philosophy of “social control,” 351. — IV. Chaotic possibilities of “viewpoints” in economics, 355. — Uses and limitations of the mechanistic view, 356. — Types of new “approaches” to economics, and their limitations, 359. — Sacrifices entailed in eliminating controversies, 360. — The scientific character of economics, old and new, 362.
I. Cost not to be identified with entrepreneur expenses, 531. — Classification of costs, 532. — The objective factor in cost, 534. — II. Cost of production does not govern value, 535. — The function of cost of production, 539. — III. Cost of acquisition underlies demand, 540. — IV. Two factors in decline of price-offers for additional units, 542. — Marshall's objection to the second, 544. — The derived demand schedule, 545. — V. Apparent circuity of the value system, 546. — Multiple valuation the escape, 547. — VI. The value of scarcity-products, 549. — Three cases, 550. — VII. The influence of variations in the objective factors, 554. — Marshall's cost curves, 555. — VIII. Efficiency cost in using labor, 556. — Land, 557. — Professor Bye's reasoning, 558. — Savings, 559. — IX. Special relation of the entrepreneur to market values, 561. — The r61e of profits, 562.
I. Introductory, — II. The Issue and its Joinder, 308. — III. Judgment delivered, 311. — The Opinions of Lukin and Beeby, 312. — The Opinion of the Chief Judge, 314. — IV. Evidence on Australian Productivity before and after the War, 319. — V. The Judgment and the Fiscal Policy of Australia, 321. — VI. Indications of the attitude of the Court on subsequent applications, 322. — VII. Decisions on subsequent applications of 1927, 325.
Journal Article A Note on Comparative Costs Get access Arthur F. Burns Arthur F. Burns Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 42, Issue 3, May 1928, Pages 495–500, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884789 Published: 01 May 1928
Journal Article The Literature of Employee Representation Get access Paul F. Gemmill Paul F. Gemmill University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 42, Issue 3, May 1928, Pages 479–494, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884788 Published: 01 May 1928