Knowledge that Transforms

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

I. Origin of the guild movement; its growth, 278. — Allied organizations, 281. — II. Ideas underlying the movement, 283. — III. Structure: the local unit (Bauhütte); the central body (Verband sozialer Baubetriebe); the relation of the guilds to the unions, 285. — IV. Activities of the central body; of the guilds in Berlin. Comparison with the English guilds, 291. — V. Difficulties, 296. — VI. Conclusion, 299.

Journal Article The New Form of the Bank of England Return: An Historic Change Get access R. D. Richards R. D. Richards London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 43, Issue 2, February 1929, Pages 381–388, https://doi.org/10.2307/1882481 Published: 01 February 1929

Introduction, 604. — Circumstances under which motor-carrier regulation has developed, 606. — Characteristics which explain the regulation of railroads and other utilities largely absent, 608. — Restriction of entrance must be distinguished from other phases of regulation, 613. — Such restriction only partially explained by the nature of the industry, 615. — Protection of railway interests the dominant consideration, 620. — Delicate problems involved in granting of certificates of convenience and necessity, 625. — Difficulties and dangers of regulation exemplified by motor freight regulation, 632. — The theory of special highway use improperly reflected in motor-carrier regulation and taxation, 639. — Conclusion, 646.

The wide interest in the problem of stable money, 667. — Assumptions of the stable money advocates open to doubt, 668. — LA real standard of value and social justice, 668. — Effect on (a) the creditor, 669, (b) the laborer, 670, and (c) the entrepreneur, 670. —Ease of attainment, 671. — II. Relation between a stable price level and business stability, 672. — Secular trend important in relation to business activity, 678. — Reasons for supporting a stable price level, 679. — III. The use of a price index as a criterion of currency control objectionable, 680. — An alternative method proposed, 681. — Advantage of the proposed plan, 683. — IV. Complexities surrounding stabilization plans, 691. — Reasons for insistence on change from the gold standard, 691. — Gold standard should not be abolished, 693. — Conclusion, 694.