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Payments Between Nations in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1936 50(4), 694
Journal Article Payments Between Nations in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries Get access Fritz Redlich Fritz Redlich Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 50, Issue 4, August 1936, Pages 694–705, https://doi.org/10.2307/1891099 Published: 01 August 1936

The British Coal Mines Act of 1930, Another Interpretation

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1936 50(2), 313
I. The facts and their interpretation, 313.— II. Trade depression and the output of coal, 317.— III. Minimum wages and the price of coal, 319.— IV. The possibilities of competition, 320.— V. Output control, 322.—VI. Price control, 324.—VII. Compulsory amalgamation and the elimination of surplus capacity, 327.— VIII. The achievement of the schemes, 329.

Professor Knight's Capital Theory: A Reply

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1936 50(3), 524
Journal Article Professor Knight's Capital Theory: A Note in Reply Get access K. E. Boulding K. E. Boulding Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 50, Issue 3, May 1936, Pages 524–531, https://doi.org/10.2307/1882614 Published: 01 May 1936

Employment and the National Dividend

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1936 51(1), 198
Journal Article Employment and the National Dividend Get access 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 51, Issue 1, November 1936, Pages 198–203, https://doi.org/10.2307/1882508 Published: 01 November 1936

Stockholdings of Officers and Directors in American Industrial Corporations

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1936 50(4), 622
I. Nature of data and of sample: 1. The SEC data on stock ownership, 622; 2. Choice of companies in sample, 624; 3. Limitations of the data, 628. — II. Proportion of stock outstanding owned by management: 1. Percentage of stock owned by management groups, 631; 2. The relation between total percentage holdings and size of management groups, 633; 3. The relation between percentage holdings and size of company, 635. — III. The market value of stock owned by management: 1. Individual value-holdings of leading executives, 640; 2. Average value-holdings of management groups, 644; 3. The relation between average value-holdings and size of firm, 650. — IV. Summary and conclusions, 650.

Development of Policy Under the Trade Agreements Program

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1936 50(2), 297
Origins of the program, 297.— Pitfalls of the policy, 299.— State Department's attempts to avoid them, 300.—Difficulty in application of most-favored-nation principle, 301.—Attempts to meet this, 302.— "Safeguards" 303.— Quotas and exchange control, 304.—Prohibitions on sanitary grounds, 305.— Monopolistic practices, 305.— Domestic planning measures, 305.— The problem of monetary instability, 307. — Conflict with bilateral exchange pacts, 309.—Conclusions: no safeguards developed against managed currency and economic planning pitfalls, 311.—Leadership incumbent upon creditor nations, 312.

A Formula for Limiting State and Local Debts

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1936 51(1), 71
I. The problem of debt limitation, 71.— II. The theory of limiting debts in terms of assessed value of property — theoretical and practical defects, 73.— III. The requisites of a good debt limit, 77.— IV. A proposal for limiting debts in terms of average revenue receipts — merits of the plan, 79.— V. Details for the practical application of the plan, 84.— VI. Comparison of computed debt limits with actual debts, 87.— VII. Conclusions, 89.

Power Aspects of the Tennessee Valley Authority's Program

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1936 50(3), 377
I. The power program of the Authority may be treated independently of other objectives. — This program represents a new development in federal power policy, 378. — II. An analysis of the provisions of the Act relating to power, 379; constitutional limitations on a federal agency in the electricity field, 383; legislative limitations on the activities of the Authority in the Tennessee Valey area, 389. — III. Objectives of the Authority's power program, 393. — Significance of these objectives for the problem of cost calculation, 396. — The problem of investment allocation, 398. — The problem of the interest rate, 407. — The determination of the price of acquired properties, 410. — IV. Conclusions, 412.

The Agricultural Adjustment Act and The Reports of the Brookings Institution

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1936 50(4), 594
I. Introduction, 594.— II. Conditions of supply of agricultural products, 595.— III. Emergency problems of agriculture, 596.— IV. Fundamental agricultural problems, 597.— V. The Agricultural Adjustment Act in relation to the problems, 600.— VI. Wheat, 601.— VII. Cotton, 603.— VIII. Livestock, 605.— IX. Dairy industry, 609.— X. Tobacco, 613.— XI. Marketing agreements, 615.— XII. Summary and conclusions, 617.

Heckscher, Mercantilism

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1936 50(2), 347
Journal Article Heckscher, Mercantilism Get access B. F. Haley B. F. Haley Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 50, Issue 2, February 1936, Pages 347–354, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885028 Published: 01 February 1936