Knowledge that Transforms

Journal Article A Peculiar Eight Hour Problem Get access William Z. Ripley, William Z. Ripley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar W. Z. Ripley, W. Z. Ripley Chairman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar W. H. Hendron, W. H. Hendron Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. E. Byrnes J. E. Byrnes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 33, Issue 3, May 1919, Pages 555–559, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885950 Published: 01 May 1919

Journal Article An Eminent Economist Confused Get access H. G. Brown H. G. Brown University of Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 33, Issue 3, May 1919, Pages 567–570, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885952 Published: 01 May 1919

Inconveniences of an unstable value unit, 652. — Dr. Fisher's proposed remedy, 652. — Would his goods standard be stable? 658. — Unstable relation between goods and labor, 660. — Value dependent on human estimation, 661. — This not stable as to goods or as to labor, 665. — Can present monetary units be stabilized? 667. — Control of issues of paper money, 667. — Control of gold production, 668. — How would Fisher's plan affect the public debt? 670.

I. Unexampled excess of exports during 1915–19, 1. — II. Theoretical analysis of international lending and borrowing under ordinary conditions, 2. — Peculiar conditions in United States during the war, 3. — Influx of gold and rise in prices, 5. — All the transactions in substance were within the United States, 6. — An overturn inevitable, 7. — III. New stage of international payments and trade to be expected, 8. — Tourist expenditures, 9. — Immigrants' remittances, 9. — Freight charges, 10. — Interest account, 11. — Capital account, 12. — The general outcome, 13. — IV. The probable course of prices and money incomes, theoretical analysis, 14. — Extraordinarily rapid overturn, 17. — Relation to world price level, 19. — Probable maintenance of gold standard and resumption of special payments, 20. — Conclusion, 20.

Earlier resort to leaders of unions in American Federation of Labor, 322. — Compulsory arbitration not tried, 324. — The War Labor Board, 326. — Its principles, 328. — Shop Committees, 329. — The Railroad Administration's labor policy, 330. — The Wage Commission of 1918, 332. — The permanent Board of Wages, and other adjustment boards, 332. — Local shop committees, 334. — General aspects of the war developments, 336. — The three types of labor adjustment, 336. — The Federal Employment Service, 338. — Its development to the date of the armistice and its future, 340. — Conclusion, 342.

I. Variety of purposes of the price-fixing agencies, 138. — Methods of price fixing, 140. — II. Cost method of price fixing, 142. — Accountant's cost of production, 144. — Use of the accountant's cost in price fixing, 145. — Profit as the margin above cost, 150. — III. Development of the theory of profit, 151. — Explanation of and justification for profit, 155. — Relation of the theory of profit to price fixing, 159. — IV. Conclusions, 160.

Reasons why the roads were taken over by the government, 577. — The contract, 582. — Federal operation, 587. — Labor conditions, 602. — Rate increases, 606. — Capital expenditures and the revolving fund, 609. — Relation of the railroad administration to existing regulating agencies, 611. — The future, 617.

Total debts of principal belligerents, 504. — Table showing debts before the war and at its close, 505. — Expenditures, receipts from taxation, and borrowings of the United States, 507. — Great Britain, 508. —France, 510. — Italy, 514. — Russia, 516. — Germany, 519. — Austria-Hungary, 526. — Turkey, 527. — Loans to Turkey from Germany and Austria-Hungary, 529.

Journal Article Walsh's The Climax of Civilization: Socialism; and Feminism Get access T. N. Carver T. N. Carver Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 33, Issue 4, August 1919, Pages 714–716, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885278 Published: 01 August 1919

The four programs described, 344. — The balancing-up program, 346. — Necessity of a balance among factors of production, 346. — Laws of value sometimes independent of social institutions, 347. — Institutions affect value of consumers' goods mainly, they scarcely affect relative values of factors of production, 351. — A slightly unbalanced population makes a collective bargaining program certain, 360. — A badly unbalanced population makes a voting program certain, 362. — An extremely unbalanced population makes a fighting program certain, 366.