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The Capital Budget

James A. Maxwell
Quarterly Journal of Economics 1943 57(3), 450
Scope of the discussion, 450. — I. The capital budget in a non-cyclical society: direct budgetary effects, 452; distributional effects, 459. — II. The capital budget in the business cycle: fiscal flexibility, 461; psychological considerations, 464. — Conclusions, 465.

A Formula for Total Savings

Montgomery D. Anderson
Quarterly Journal of Economics 1943 58(1), 106
I. Confusion in translating the concept "saving" into concrete statistical measurement, 106. — II. Saving vs. investment, 108. — III. Measuring the rate of saving, 111. — IV. Relation between saving and investment, 113. — Statistical verification, 116. — Advantages of selecting the typical accounting period as the time interval, 116. — V. No confusion with hoarding, 119.— The "producer-consumer investment ratio, " 119.

The Tactics of Retail Price Control

John Perry Miller
Quarterly Journal of Economics 1943 57(4), 497
I. The GMPR: background, 498; pricing rules, 499; reasons for its failure, 500; its usefulness, 507. — II. Specific Prices and Margin Control: alternatives to GMPR, 508; criteria for policy, 509; specific dollar-and-cents prices, 510; margin control, .513 — Conclusions, 519.

British Prices and Wage Rates: 1939-1941

Buford Brandis
Quarterly Journal of Economics 1943 57(4), 543
I. The legal basis for price control, 543. — II. Administration: private business, 545; costs, 546; demand, 547; foreign trade, 548; policy changes, 550; price interrelations, 552. — III. Price movements: wholesale prices, 553; causal factors, 555. — IV. Wages, 555. — V. Wage policy, 560. — VI. Wages and prices, 562.

The Demand for Food by Low Income Families

Norman Leon Gold; Maxine Enlow
Quarterly Journal of Economics 1943 57(4), 596
Introduction: the importance of consumers' price elasticities and food habits, 596. — Income elasticity and price elasticity, 599. — Demand curves from market data, 604. — New data on low income demand curves: sources, 606; advantages and disadvantages, 608 — The findings: butter, 612; eggs, 615; pork, 616; lard, 618; oranges, 619; grapefruit, 621; apples, 623; prunes, 623; potatoes, 623; white flour, 625; dry beans, 625; rice, 627; comparisons, 627. — Conclusions, 629.

The Financial Policy of Corporations

Pearson Hunt
Quarterly Journal of Economics 1943 57(2), 303
Journal Article The Financial Policy of Corporations Get access Pearson Hunt Pearson Hunt Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 57, Issue 2, February 1943, Pages 303–313, https://doi.org/10.2307/1882755 Published: 01 February 1943

The Mechanism of Adjustment of the American Balance of Payments: 1919-1929

Arthur I. Bloomfield
Quarterly Journal of Economics 1943 57(3), 333
Introduction: Special difficulties of the problem, 333. — The American balance of payments: 1919–1929, 339. — Direct relations between exports of American capital and merchandise, 344. — A mechanism of adjustment sequence? 352. — Business fluctuations and the American balance of payments: 1919–1929, 360. — Long-term capital exports and domestic activity, 366. — International differences in the intensity and timing of business cycles, 373. — Conclusion, 376.

Welfare Economics and Rationing

W. C. Haraldson
Quarterly Journal of Economics 1943 58(1), 146
Journal Article Welfare Economics and Rationing Get access W. C. Haraldson W. C. Haraldson New York City Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 58, Issue 1, December 1943, Pages 146–148, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885762 Published: 01 December 1943

Theoretical Aspects of Rationing

Hans P. Neisser
Quarterly Journal of Economics 1943 57(3), 378
Introduction: types of rationing, 378. — Over-all rationing: pure over-all dollar rationing, 379; pure over-all point rationing, 381; over-all point dollar rationing, 382. — Over-all rationing vs. specific rationing, 386. — Group rationing the bases for grouping, 389; value vs. point rationing, 391; point prices, 392. — Conclusions, 394. — Appendices, 394.

Balance of Payments Problems of Countries Reconstructing with the Help of Foreign Loans

J. J. Polak
Quarterly Journal of Economics 1943 57(2), 208
Introduction, 208.— The problem, 209.— Assumptions and method, 210.— Investment: the expansion ratio, 213.— Operation: three types, 216.— Implications, 218.— Service costs, 219.— Changes in the flow of capital, 220.— Lagged payments for imports, 225.— Qualitative conclusions, 226.— Quantitative conclusions, 229.— Appendix, 232.