Knowledge that Transforms

Journal Article An American Experiment in Workmen's Insurance Get access Henry Davis Bushnell Henry Davis Bushnell Pittsburg, Pa. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 24, Issue 3, May 1910, Pages 569–574, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885214 Published: 01 May 1910

Journal Article The Dun-Gibson Index Number Get access Wesley C. Mitchell Wesley C. Mitchell University of California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 25, Issue 1, November 1910, Pages 161–172, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885829 Published: 01 November 1910

An inductive study of rate theories, 1. — Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission as material for such a study, 4. — I. Commission's preliminary statement of the fundamental principle of rate making, 7. — The determining factors in the Commission's decisions, 10. — II. Value of commodity as a rate basis, 11. — 1. Competitive commodities, 12. (a) in different stages of manufacture, 13. — (b) as possible substitutes for each other, 25. — 2. Non-competitive commodities, 28. — 3. Market value the criterion, 33. — 4. Social considerations, 35. — III. Cost of service as a rate basis, 40. — 1. Some special service rendered, 42. — 2. Comparison with other commodities, 50. — 3. Comparison with rates elsewhere, 58. — 4. Car load and less than car load shipments, 60. — Conclusion with reference to cost of service, 65.

Journal Article A Revised Index Number for Measuring the Rise in Prices Get access J. Pease Norton J. Pease Norton Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 24, Issue 4, August 1910, Pages 750–759, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883495 Published: 01 August 1910

Current views regarding the decline of yeoman farming in England, 294. — The situation in Oxfordshire from 1755–1832 as shown by the Land Tax returns, 298. — Comparison of the conditions of 1785 with those of the sixteenth century, 308. — Effect of the enclosures of 1755–1832 upon yeoman farming in Oxfordshire, 313. — Connection between earlier enclosures and yeoman farming, 320. — Antecedent conditions needing investigation, 323.

Journal Article The Decline in Trade Union Membership Get access C. H. Parker C. H. Parker Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 24, Issue 3, May 1910, Pages 564–569, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885213 Published: 01 May 1910

I. The advantages claimed for the plan of separation, 438. — II. First criticism: separation would not necessarily ensure a just distribution of state taxation, 441. — Second criticism: separation would not necessarily lead to a full valuation of property subject to local taxation, 446. — Third criticism: separation would not end diversity of local interests in tax legislation, 449. — Fourth criticism: local option in taxation is undesirable, 451. — Fifth criticism: it is undesirable to abolish direct state taxation, 453. — III. Conclusion, 456.

Journal Article The Corn Bounty Experiment of Charles II Get access N. S. B. Gras N. S. B. Gras Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 24, Issue 2, February 1910, Pages 419–422, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883563 Published: 01 February 1910

Journal Article The Somers System of Realty Valuation Get access H. L. Lutz H. L. Lutz Oberlin College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 25, Issue 1, November 1910, Pages 172–181, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885830 Published: 01 November 1910

The genealogy of certain current doctrines traced back (1) to the distinction between productive and unproductive labor, 97. — The origins of this distinction in Mercantilism and Physiocracy, 99. — Mill's interpretation, 101. — The bearing of the materialistic and mercantilistic notion of production upon the notion of productive instruments and upon the distinction between land and capital, 102. — This distinction as reinforced by the argument from origins, 103. — This distinction subjected to the tests of competitive production for the market, 104. — Its support derived from English juristic thought and institutions, 104. — (2) The Unseen Hand, Natural Law, and Laissez-faire as separate sources of the current optimism, of the current misconceptions of productivity, and of current confusions between social and competitive analysis, 106. — These summarized, 109. — The genealogy of the Productivity Theory of Distribution, productivity being presented as social service, 110. — The concept of capital restated in harmony with the competitive, individualistic, pecuniary organization of business, 111. — Capital characterized not by technological tests or by materiality, 111. — Nor by the materiality of its product, 112. — Nor by social service, 113. — But by pecuniary return, — as, likewise, with the productivity of labor, 114. — Other dangers of error and other actual errors through the confusion of the social and the competitive points of view, 115. — The necessary reformulations of doctrine, 116. — General summary of the argument, 117. — The Productivity Theory of Distribution, as commonly held, old in all essentials, 118.