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Wages Boards in Australia: II. Boards Outside Victoria. III. Organization and Procedure

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1915 29(2), 326
II. Boards outside Victoria. 1. South Australia, 326. — 2. Queensland, 332. — 3. New South Wales, 334. — 4. Tasmania, 337.— III. Organization and Procedure. 1. Organization and Appointment, 339. — Grouping of trades, multiplication of boards, 341. — Number of members, 341. — Women, 342. — Chairmen, 343. — "Award" or "determination, " 344. — Court of Industrial Appeals in Victoria; of Industrial Arbitration elsewhere, 346. — 2. Wages Boards at work, 347. — Importance of chairman, 350. — Real or apparent waste of time, 353. — Informal proceedings, 355. — Absence of any guiding principle, 356. — Cost of living a conspicuous factor, 357. — In Victoria, true examples of collective bargaining; elsewhere, less so, 360.

Depreciation and Rate Control: A Reply

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1915 29(2), 378
Journal Article Depreciation and Rate Control: A Reply Get access Allyn A. Young Allyn A. Young Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 29, Issue 2, February 1915, Pages 378–387, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884964 Published: 01 February 1915

Depreciation and Rate Control: Rejoinder

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1915 29(2), 388
Journal Article Depreciation and Rate Control: A Rejoinder Get access Joseph S. Davis Joseph S. Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 29, Issue 2, February 1915, Pages 388–395, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884965 Published: 01 February 1915

Marconcini's l' Industria Domestica Salariata

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1915 29(2), 410
Journal Article Marconcini's L' Industria Domestica Salariata Get access Willard C. Fisher Willard C. Fisher Middletown, Conn. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 29, Issue 2, February 1915, Pages 410–418, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884968 Published: 01 February 1915

Germany's Financial Mobilization

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1915 29(4), 724
I. Preliminary measures: banknotes and treasury notes of small denominations authorized in 1906, 724. — The joint stock banks required to publish more frequent statements, 726. — II. The four war measures passed August 4, 728. — The Darlehnskassenscheine, 728. — III. The Reichsbank; redemption of notes discontinued, 732. — Stock of gold increased, chiefly from the internal circulation, 734. — Discounts of treasury bills, 736. — IV. The Darlehnskassen, 737. — V. War Credit Banks, 739. — VI. Foreign exchange, 742. — Appendix I, Issues of Darlehnskassenscheine, 745; II, Reichsbank Statements, July, 1914, to March, 1915, 746.

Capital Investments and Trade Balances Within the British Empire

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1915 29(4), 768
Introductory. Effects of international lending and borrowing on imports and exports, 769. — I. British India. The debit and credit items, 770. — Tabular statements, 772. — Foreign capital investments and interest charges, 775. — Obvious gain from productive investments, 779. — II. Canada's heavy borrowings, 780. — Halt in 1914, 783. — Exports and imports, 785. — “Invisible” items, 786. — Approximate balance sheet, 790. — Imports from United States, 791.

Promotion as the Cause of Crises

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1915 29(4), 748
Two groups of crisis theories, 748. — Failures the chief phenomena in the crisis, 749. — Promotion activity the cause of prosperity, 750. — Relation between promotion and failures, 752. — Newly-promoted concerns fail, 752. — Old concerns fail because of competition of new, 755. — All kinds fail because of inability to cope with dynamic conditions, 756. — The part of credit in the cycle, 761. — Exhaustion of loanable funds, 761. — Falling reserve ratios or falling reserves, 762. — Gold movements before crises, 763. — Break down of credit not the main cause of crises, 764. — Crisis failures include insolvent as well as solvent concerns, 765. — Promotion the cause of crises, 766.

Deposit Guaranty in Mississippi

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1915 29(2), 419
Journal Article Deposit Guaranty in Mississippi Get access Thornton Cooke Thornton Cooke Fidelity Trust Company, Kansas City, Mo. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 29, Issue 2, February 1915, Pages 419–425, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884969 Published: 01 February 1915

The Contest in Congress Between Organized Labor and Organized Business

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1915 29(2), 235
The Clayton anti-trust act a landmark in the struggle, 235. — Employers organize to resist trade unions, 236. — Necessity of carrying the struggle into politics and legislation, 236. — Bearing of the Sherman act upon the situation, 237. — The National Association of Manufacturers, its growth and activities, 238. — The activities and disclosures of Mulhall, 240. — The American Federation of Labor goes into politics, 244. — Parliamentary tactics, 246. — The National Council for Industrial Defense, 247. — The American Antiboycott Association and the legal phase of the struggle, 249. — Victory at first with the employers, 249. — Organized labor begins to make gains after 1908, 251. — Three types of "labor" bills, 254. — Progress in legislation with all three types, 255. — Labor sections in the Clayton act, 258.

The Progress of Pecuniary Valuation

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1915 30(1), 1 open access
Pecuniary valuation is a social institution and presumably subject to progress, 1. — The meaning of value; values express organization; there are numerous classifications, 2. — The nature of the differences among various kinds of value, 3. — All values are, in a sense, commensurable, 5. — Pecuniary value apparently exists to give all kinds of psychical value general validity and exact expression, but seems to do this inadequately, 6. — Conditions that intervene between psychical values and their pecuniary expression, 7.—The factor of class, 8.—Pecuniary value is attained only through an institutional process, 9. —Innovating values lack pecuniary recognition; how they may attain it, 10. — The conception of "progress-values, " 14. — Examples of the shortcomings of market valuation at the present time, 15. — Need of organized groups and disciplines, 16. — Instances of current progress in pecuniary valuation, 17. — Progress in the pecuniary valuation of men, 20. — The outlook, 20.