Workmen's Insurance in Germany: Some Illustrative Figures Get access F. W. T. F. W. T. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 24, Issue 1, November 1909, Pages 191–194, https://doi.org/10.2307/1886061 Published: 01 November 1909

The "true principle, " of equalizing cost of production, virtually new in 1908, 2. — Its fallaciousness, 2. — High wages and cost of production, 4. — Significance of the "true principle" as a concession to the demand for revision, 5. — Character of the debate of 1909, 7. — Crass protectionism, 9. — The Bill before the Ways and Means Committee, 11. — German comments pigeonholed, 13. — Action of the House, 15. — Situation in the Senate; log-rolling brings advances in duty, 16. — Conference Committee settles details, 18. — Duty on hides abolished, 19. — Duties on lumber and iron reduced, 21. — Iron and steel duties lowered, 24. — Shoes and leather, 25. — Advances on cotton goods, hosiery, silks, 27. — Economic characteristics of these industries, 31. — Insignificant changes on wool and woollens, 31, and on sugar, 33. — Sugar from the Philippines free, 34. — Advances on petty items, "jokers, " 35. — Maximum and minimum provisions, 36. — Conclusion 38.

The Burden of the Sugar Duty 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 23, Issue 3, May 1909, Pages 548–553, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884780 Published: 01 May 1909

I. Literature. Character previous to the opening of the Vatican Archives, 251. — Notable recent works, 254. — II. Administration. Development of a financial department, 260. — Central organization, 263. — External agents, 267. — III. Revenues. Classification, 273. — Census, 275. — Income taxes, 280. — Benefice taxes, 282. — Fees and miscellaneous receipts, 292.

Examples of anomalies, 470.—Hadley's oyster case not conclusive, 472.—Two variants: lower long-haul rates by the roundabout route, as in the Hillsdale, Youngstown, and some Southern cases, 474; or by the direct route, as in the Nashville-Chattanooga and other Southern cases, 480.—Complicating influence of water transportation, 488.—Market competition from various regions a different case, 489.—The basing point (Southern) and basing line (Missouri River) systems, 494.—Their inevitable instability and probable ultimate abandonment, 498.—Postage-stamp rates, illustrated by transcontinental tariffs, 499.

Introduction: the success of existing central banks, 363.—Minor obstacles in the United States, 365.—The functions of central banks, 369.—I. The activities of central banks in normal times, 373.—The absence of branch banking an insuperable obstacle in the case of government deposits and the issue of notes, 380.—Credit notes a dangerous instrument, when the use of deposit credit is general, 386.—II. The precautionary stage in the policy of central banks, 388.—The sliding scale of discount would be ineffective in the United States, 393. —The kind of central bank which has been proposed for the United States is unlike those in Europe, because it would not be able to restrain credit expansion, 396.—III. Activities of central banks during crises: a central bank not needed to handle the foreign exchange situation, 400; or to insure the continuance of loans, 403.—The suspension of payments can be remedied without revolutionary changes in our present system, 407.—Conclusion, 413.