Knowledge that Transforms

I. Introductory; peculiarities as regards fire insurance rates in the United States, 447. — How the price of indemnity differs from ordinary prices, 448. — II. The theory of these rates, 450. — Classification no sure way of measuring hazard, 452. — Analysis of hazard into component parts, 453. — Influence of geographical area, 455. — III. Conflagrations a disturbing factor in the United States, 457. — IV. State regulation of three kinds: (1) Valued policy laws, 458. — (2) Anti-coinsurance laws, 460. — (3) Anti-trust laws, 462. — Conclusion, 464.

The argument for productivity as the determinant of distributive shares, 149. — Preliminary criticism, 151. — The main argument for specific productivity rests upon a truism, 152. — The impossibility of isolating specific productivity, 155. — The mathematical error in the method of isolating specific productivity, 158. — The two schools of value theorists, 162. — The psychological theory of value; a safeguard against the dangers in productivity reasoning, 163. — The surrender of the social implications of the productivity thesis, 166. — The element of truth in the specific productivity concept, 168. — Conclusion, 174.

Journal Article “Unearned Increments,” Land Taxes, and the Building Trade Get access B. M. Anderson, Jr B. M. Anderson, Jr Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 28, Issue 4, August 1914, Pages 811–814, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885655 Published: 01 August 1914

The problem stated, 490. — Equality in taxation, 492. — Relation to the general property tax as a state tax, 494. — Complete home rule with separation of sources, 495. — Home rule as a negative program, 499. — Tendency to excess in state expenditure, 502. — The case summarized, 503.

I. "Public point of view" v. "social point of view, " 293. — II. Value and the social point of view, 294. — Relativity of value, 296. — Relation to exchange, 297. — Determination of value, 299. — Market v. normal value, 303. — Elasticity of demand, 305. — III. Wealth and the social point of view, 306. — The definition of wealth, 308. — IV. Production and capital from the social point of view, 310. — The individualist's concept of production, 311. — False assumptions concerning society, 312. — The "entrepreneur viewpoint, " 314. — The technological basis of production, 316. — V. The scientific character of the social-individual point of view, 319.

The method of stating the laws of competitive price, 747. — Economics as a theory of limits, 750. — The factor of time, 751. — Fixed capital and joint cost, 754. — Price is indeterminate, 755. — Capital with limited mobility, 760. — Factors affecting extent of price cutting, 762. — Agreements and potential competition, 767. — Conclusion, 770.

I. Peculiar position of Great Britain, a creditor country, as regards external payments, 48. — II. Depositories opened by the Bank of England outside Great Britain, 50. — III. Obligations by foreigners not paid, 52. — IV. Embarrassments of accepting houses, discount houses, joint stock banks, 55. — V. Stock exchange closed, 58; Bank of England guaranteed by Government against loss on bills taken over, 60; the bank rate kept moderate, 60. — VI. Possibility of internal drain, 64 ; Bank act suspended, 65; Currency Notes issued by Government, 66; extent of additional issues, 68. — VII. Conclusion, 70.

Introduction: methods of wage regulation, 98. — 1. The anti-sweating movement in Victoria, 101. — 2. Origin and introduction of wages boards, 107. — Parliamentary history of the minimum wage bill, 110. — Main features of the act of 1896, 120. — 3. Extension of the system and its struggle for existence, 122. — Work of the first boards, 123. — Act of 1900, 126. — Crisis of 1902, 131. — Report of the Royal Commission in 1903, 139. — The system made permanent, 143. — 4. Growing popularity of the boards, 144.

I. Davenport's Economics is in the direct line of succession of the classical treatises on economics, 417. — II. The book essentially classical in scope and method, 419. — III. The chief departure from classical method in the greater significance ascribed to the entrepreneur, 422. — IV. Competing concepts of marginality: contradictions in Davenport's usage, 424. — V. Inadequacy of the concept of value as a mathematical ratio for the analysis of the problems of price and value of money, 430. — VI. Production identified with acquisition, 437. — Bearing of this amalgamation of concepts upon the problems of functional and personal distribution, 438. — VII. Social implications of Davenport's system of economic theory, 443.

Journal Article Keynes' Indian Currency and Finance Get access E. W. Kemmerer E. W. Kemmerer Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 28, Issue 2, February 1914, Pages 373–377, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883628 Published: 01 February 1914