Knowledge that Transforms

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.

Nature of the plan, 250. — I. The original Ketcham bill, 252. — The revised bill, 255. — II. An export bounty, little disguised, 255; but not a formal subsidy, 256. — III. Hamilton's proposals fundamentally different, 258; tho similar in some superficial respects, 261. — IV. Comparison with the German system, 263. — Some unexpected results of the changes made in 1906, 267. — German experience affords no support for the debenture plan, 268. — V. Not analogous to drawbacks, 269; or to protective tariffs, 271. — Hamilton's view, 273. — “Equality for agriculture,” 275. — VI. Conclusion: supporters of the debenture plan have relied on superficial analogies, 277.

Journal Article Senior's Social Economy Get access Redvers Opie Redvers Opie Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 43, Issue 2, February 1929, Pages 363–375, https://doi.org/10.2307/1882479 Published: 01 February 1929

Equation of exchange restated, 649. — Working's theory of the isolation of cyclical variations in money and prices, 649. — Mitchell's theory of the primacy of the pecuniary volume of trade, 650. — Cycles of P and M, 652. — And of T and V, 654. — Working's two basic propositions examined, 656. — Seasonals of T, M, and V, 657. — Seasonals of PT plus R and MV, 659. — Cycles of PT plus R and MV, 661. — Bearing of these comparisons on Mitchell's hypothesis, 663. — Conclusions, 664.

Public interest in the Bank, 713. — Reasons for its establishment, 714. — Gradual development of the idea, 715. — Need of international financial cooperation, 716. — Structure of the Bank, 717. — Powers of the Bank, 721. — Size of the Bank, 721. — Conclusions: The Bank has two functions, primary and auxiliary, 723. — Impossibility of predicting what may be expected from the latter, 724.

Journal Article Mills' Behavior of Prices Get access Jacob Viner Jacob Viner University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 43, Issue 2, February 1929, Pages 337–352, https://doi.org/10.2307/1882477 Published: 01 February 1929

I. Scope of the paper: certain self-inflammatory movements, indirect and provisional. — Three cases, distinguished according to the terms of sale, considered theoretically. Case I, 224. — Case II, 229. — Case III, 233. — Conditions in Germany during 1920–24 conform to the assumptions in these cases, 233. — II. Examination of German conditions, 236. — Two periods, 238. — Statistical verification for the two periods, 242. — Conclusion, 248.