Knowledge that Transforms

Journal Article Recent Books on the Agricultural Situation Get access Joseph S. Davis Joseph S. Davis Food Research Institute, Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 43, Issue 3, May 1929, Pages 532–543, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885923 Published: 01 May 1929

Journal Article Academic Economics in Present Russia Gelesnoff, Grundzüge Get access M. M. Bober M. M. Bober Lawrence College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 43, Issue 2, February 1929, Pages 352–363, https://doi.org/10.2307/1882478 Published: 01 February 1929

I. Introduction, 193. — II. The questions considered, 196. — The rate base: present value v. prudent investment, 197. — The investor's viewpoint. What is security? 200. — III. The basis for consumption charges, 203. — IV. The case for a general depreciation scheme, 208. — Past depreciation, 211. — V. Depreciation schemes. Defects of the straight-line method, 215. — VI. Only compelling need could justify, 217. — VII. Conclusions; alternatives, 218.

I. Reform of British local taxation overdue, 697. — Differences between central and local tax systems, 698. — Defects of the latter, 699. — Burden of local rates on depressed industries, 700. — II. Changes in Scotland, 703. — III. Aims and salient features of the new legislation, 703. — The formulae, 705. — IV. Criticisms of the new arrangements, 707. — Certain producers are, in effect, subsidised, 708. — The problem of differentiation, 709. — Objection to block grants, 711. — Special concessions, 711. — Conclusion, 712.

Journal Article The Literature of the Agricultural Situation Once More Get access Joseph S. Davis Joseph S. Davis Food Research Institute, Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 44, Issue 1, November 1929, Pages 138–159, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885443 Published: 01 November 1929

Journal Article Comparative Costs in the Worsted-cloth Manufacture, American and Foreign Get access Arthur H. Cole Arthur H. Cole Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 43, Issue 3, May 1929, Pages 550–561, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885925 Published: 01 May 1929

I. Introduction, 567. — II. The consumption use of savings, 569. — The commercial use, 573. — The production use, 575. — III. The yield schedules: scarcity-reducing investments, 578; — efficiency-increasing investments, 583. — Currency difficulties, 586. — IV. The combined schedule, 590. — Sale of rent bearers, 592. — Equalization of rates, 593. — "Productivity" 594. — V. The influence of interest on saving, 596. — Saving and other factors, 601. — VI. Conclusion, 603.

Journal Article Eulenburg's Aussenhandel Get access Frank D. Graham Frank D. Graham Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 44, Issue 1, November 1929, Pages 159–163, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885444 Published: 01 November 1929

Journal Article The Relation between Normal Working Time and Hourly and Weekly Earnings Get access H. LaRue Frain H. LaRue Frain Industrial Research Department, University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 43, Issue 3, May 1929, Pages 544–550, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885924 Published: 01 May 1929