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Importance of depreciation for valuation, 630. — A well maintained property is yet normally in a state of depreciation, 632. — How to allow for this circumstance depends on the purpose for which accounts are made up, 635. — Mode of reckoning depreciation required by Interstate Commerce Commission, 637. — "Replacement account, " "Reserve for accrued Depreciation, " 639. — A possible alternative, 644. — The general procedure justified for purposes of regulation, 648. — Criticism possible as regards earlier charges made, 654. — A different principle and a different rule by other regulating bodies, 656. — Wisconsin Commission, 657. — The United States Supreme Court, 660. — Conclusion, 662.

Introduction. Attitude of the parties in Congress; general character of the legislation, 72. — I. Unfair competitive methods, 74. — General declaration of illegality, 74. — Method of enforcement; discretion of trade commission, 75. — Price discrimination, 77. — Sales and leases conditioned on exclusive patronage, 80. — II. New provisions as to combinations in restraint of trade, 81. — Adequacy of the Sherman act without amendment, 82. — Intercorporate stockholdings, 82. — Interlocking directorates, 84. — Inadequacy of prohibition when community of stock interest is permitted, 85. — Provisions as to banks, 86. — Personal liability to penalties under anti-trust laws, 87. — Private suits, 88. — III. Mismanagement of railroads. Relations to banking, supply and construction companies. Misappropriation of funds, 89. — IV. The interstate trade commission, 90. — Powers of investigation; reports from corporations, 91. — Powers in enforcement and interpretation of law, 94. — Assistance of the commission to attorney general and courts; recommendations for future legislation, 95. — Beneficial results to be anticipated, 97.

I. Spirit and obiects of the act, 213. — Advantages of the plan of regional banks, 216. — II. Organization of the system, 222. — Directors of the Federal Reserve Banks, 224. — Federal Reserve Board, 226. — III. Capital, earnings, deposits of the Federal Reserve Banks, 228. — New reserve requirements for national banks, 231. — IV. Clearing House functions of the Federal Reserve Banks, 234. — V. Federal reserve notes, 237. — National bank notes, 241. — VI. Lending operations of Federal Reserve Banks, 243. — How far operations with general public, 245. — VII. Additional powers granted to national banks, 249. — VIII. Supervisory functions of Federal Reserve Board, 251. — Probable relations of this Board to directors of Reserve Banks, 252.

Earlier estimates of income-distribution, based on imperfect statistics, 256. — Additional information since 1907–09, 257. — Comparison of new data with Pareto's law, 258. — Considerable discontinuity; possible explanation, 260. — Notes: I, Abatements on moderate incomes (up to £700), 262; II, Super-tax yield, 263; III, Pareto's law, 264; IV, Death duty statistics, 266; V, Statistics of earned income, 267.

Introduction, 506. — 1. Development and Theory of Scientific Management, 509. — Earlier discussion, 510. — The successive publications of F. W. Taylor, 511; — of Gantt, 514. — Essentials of Taylor's system, 518. — Various other publications, 521. — Emerson's books, 527. — 2. Scientific Management in Operation, 530. — 3. The Railroads, 533. — 4. Methods; general articles and books, 538. — Time study, 540. — Motion study, 541. — Other questions, 543. — 5. The Personal Factor, 547. — Bearing on larger social problems, 551. — 6. Relation to Organized Labor, 553.

Introduction: psychology and economics, 1. — I. Parmelee, Science of Human Behavior, 3. — II. Thorndike, The Original Nature of Man, 6. — III. Wallas, The Great Society, 12. — IV. Veblen, The Instinct of Workmanship, 19. — V. Sombart, Der Bourgeois, 29. — VI. Lippmann, A Preface to Politics, 37. — VII. Walling, Progressivism and After, 41. — VIII. Conclusion, 46.

Journal Article Abraham Lincoln on the Tariff: A Myth Get access F. W. Taussig F. W. Taussig 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 814–820, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885656 Published: 01 August 1914

I. Existing Conditions. Classes of agricultural credit, 701. — Growth of farm mortgage indebtedness in the United States, 703. — Statistics, 704. — Causes, 705. — North versus South, 707. — Significance, 709. — Sources of farm mortgage credit in the United States, 712. — Rates of interest on farm mortgages, 718. — Averages in different sections, 718. — Elements of cost, 719. — Personal indebtedness of the American farmer, 721. — Statistics, 722. — Sources of personal credit, 723. — Its cost, 724. — II. Proposals for reform. Agitation for improvement of agricultural credit facilities, 727. — Agricultural credit in Germany and France and comparison with conditions in the United States, 729. — The debenture bond system; its limitations, illustrated by European experience; its unfitness for use in the United States, 734. — Futility of direct state financial aid to agriculture, 739. — Agricultural credit bills now before Congress, 740. — Criticism and conclusion, 746.

The abstract character of the conception of land as the basis of rent, 466. — Modification of the rent theory according to the possibility of preventing exhaustion, 469. — Effect of the assumption of exhaustion upon the economic intensity of utilization, 471. — Influence of the rate of interest on intensity of utilization, 474. — Influence of prices on intensity of utilization, 477. — Determination of the extensive margin, 480. — The so-called royalty from mines forms a part of economic rent; Ricardo's discussion, 481. — Relation of royalties and rents to prices, 485. — Incidence of taxation under the modified assumptions, 486. — Conclusion, 488.