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Nature and significance of the problem, 443. — I. Conditions leading to investigation of the coal and petroleum industries, 443. — The Coal and Petroleum Products Control Board Act, 445. — Further legislation in 1940, 446. — Constitutional restrictions in Canada, 446. — II. Facts brought to light by the foregoing: brand names, 447; elasticity of demand, 448; major oil companies' control, 448; side-lines, 449; profits, 449. — Prices and cost of production, 450. — Interpretations of the facts revealed, 451. — Price determination, 451. — Product determination, 452. — Promotion, 454. — III. Alternative policies open to the Board, 454. — Policies adopted, 457. — Conclusions, 458.

Situation before the publication of Keynes' General Theory, 488.— New controversial issues, 488.— I. Rates of return on economic resources: securities, 490; cash, 492; production, 493; consumption, 494.— Nature of the rates of return, 495.—II. Fundamentals of economic behavior: individuals, 496; firms, 496; banks, 497; governments, 498.— Significance of an arbitrary monetary policy, 498.— III. The theory of interest: the marginal productivity theory, 500; the time-preference theory, 501; the liquidity-preference theory, 503; the loanable-funds theory, 505. — Validity of the theories of interest, 506.

I. Introduction: federal unions and customs unions, 49. — II. Long-run economic consequences, 51. — Revenue tariff, 54. — Moderate protection, 61. — Extreme protection, 64. — Tentative conclusions: conditions making for economic gain by country granting preferential tariff reductions, 66; economic benefits may be reduced or cancelled by policy of self-sufficiency, 70. — III. Transitional economic problems: Streit's proposal, 71; Meade's suggestions, 74; Salter's plan, 75; regional groups, 76; formula to assure permanent gain, 79. — IV. The most-favored nation clause, 80. — V. The tariff authority, 88. — VI. Conclusions, 91.

Journal Article Wages and Hours in Consumers' Cooperatives in Great Britain and the United States Get access Glenn W. Miller Glenn W. Miller Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 55, Issue 2, February 1941, Pages 294–305, https://doi.org/10.2307/1882063 Published: 01 February 1941

Emergence of the term "price policy, " 175. — Institutionalism and price behavior, 176. — Price behavior and determinism, 181. — Policy as rationalistic innovation, 185. — Price policy and business strategy, 190. — Price policy and commercial tactics, 193. — Scope and method of business price policy studies, 195. — Relation of business price policy to public policy, 201. — Price policy, economic planning, and institutional redesigning, 203.

Journal Article Real and Money Wage Rates—A Reply Get access John T. Dunlop John T. Dunlop Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 55, Issue 4, August 1941, Pages 683–691, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884124 Published: 01 August 1941

I. The production function, 108. — II. What the variables represent, 112. — III. The years and industries selected for study, 113. — IV. Statistical argument, 116. — V. Results for the four years, 117. — VI. Discussion of the model, 118. — VII. Comparison with the results of earlier work, 120. — VIII. (1) Comparison of observed and computed product, 121. — (2) Comparison of k and W/P, 125. — (3) Elasticity of demand for labor, 127. — IX. Conclusion, 128.

Journal Article Invariable Classical Stability of Entrepreneurial Demand and Supply Functions Get access Louis M. Court Louis M. Court The University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 56, Issue 1_Part_1, November 1941, Pages 134–144, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883033 Published: 01 November 1941

I. Introductory. Concept of the "region, " 533.— II. Labor cost per unit of labor and per unit of product, 536.—III. Regional differences in wages, 537. — Gratuities and payments in kind, 542. — Real wages, 544. — IV. The supply of labor, 545.—Legislative and other restrictions, 548.—V. Differences in productivity, 552. — Spinners and weavers, 558. — VI. Conclusions, 564.