Journal Article The London Passenger Transport Act of 1933: A New Socialization 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 48, Issue 1, November 1933, Pages 181–193, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884802 Published: 01 November 1933

I. The aim of the Act, 63.— Two corporations set up, 63.— The fixing of the ascertained average price, 65.— The ascertained supply or quota, 66.— The standard price, 67.— Wheat certificates to be issued, 67.— Quota payments, 67.— Imported flour and quota payments, 68.— The Wheat Commission and the Wheat Fund, 68.— II. Criticism of details; growers will receive the subsidy in a circuitous manner, 69.— Regressive nature of the tax upon consumers, 69.— Compulsory purchase of wheat by Flour Millers* Corporation, 70.— Likely to be very favorable to growers, 71.— III. The Act examined as an expression of policy, 72.— Wheat no longer a pivotal crop in Britain, 72.— Wheat-growing and employment, 73.— Encouragement of wheat-growing likely to discourage specialization on other crops, 75.— State aid to British agriculture should be general, 76.— The State should look to the future, not to the past, 76.

I. Reform of British local taxation overdue, 697. — Differences between central and local tax systems, 698. — Defects of the latter, 699. — Burden of local rates on depressed industries, 700. — II. Changes in Scotland, 703. — III. Aims and salient features of the new legislation, 703. — The formulae, 705. — IV. Criticisms of the new arrangements, 707. — Certain producers are, in effect, subsidised, 708. — The problem of differentiation, 709. — Objection to block grants, 711. — Special concessions, 711. — Conclusion, 712.

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