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The share of Hispanic America in the Foreign Trade of the United States in 1823, 466. — United States Exports to Hispanic America, 467. — Imports from Hispanic America, 471. — Difficulties in the trade: warfare, piracy, glutted markets, 473. — Trade with Brazil, 474. — With northern South America, 477. — With the independent West Indies, 478. — With the West Coast of South America; whaling, 483. — Interest in the American Trade in United States Congress, 485. — Summary, 486.

The comparison is of labor costs in the sense of quantity of labor per unit of output. — I. Coal in the United States and other countries, 98. — II. The United States and Great Britain: iron and steel; other articles, 102. — III. Window-glass in the United States, Belgium, and Sweden, 107. — IV. Cotton goods in the United States and Japan, 111.

Journal Article Marshall on Consumers' Surplus in International Trade Get access Allyn A. Young Allyn A. Young Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 39, Issue 1, November 1924, Pages 144–150, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883959 Published: 01 November 1924

Importance of the coal problem, 541. — I. Occasion for appointment of the Commission, 543. — The Federal Act of October, 1923, 547. — Personnel of the Commission, 548. — II. The bituminous branch of the industry; striking irregularity of production, 550. — The causes: seasonal demand, strikes, overdevelopment above all, 551. — Effects on labor, 559. — No radical remedy proposed by the Commission, 660. — Changes in railroad car distribution recommended, 561. — Readjustment of freight rates, 563. — The Commission fails to urge the use by the Interstate Commerce Commission of its power to veto building of lines or sidings not needed, 565. — III. Anthracite coal problems simpler, 566. — The fundamental problem is that of monopoly, 568. — The Commission proposes a graded tax on royalties, 570. — IV. Unionization and non-union fields, 572. — The Commission on the whole commends the United Mine Workers, condemns operators in non-union fields, yet takes a neutral attitude, 573. — V. The Reports have high educational value, the remedies suggested are inadequate, 577. — Some more far-reaching plan must come, 581.

I. Theories of the causes of crises and cycles: agnostic theories, 294.—Emphasis placed upon the influence of the credit system, 296.—Attention to the psychology of business men, 299.—Periodicity of commercial crises, 300. — Theory that banks cause the business cycle, 308.—Critics of the theory that banks cause the business cycle, 308. — Theory of the self-generating cycle, 309. — Influence of maladjustments of production, 312. II. Suggestions for moderating the cycle: loan policy, 316.—Variable discount rate, 319.—Surplus reserves at New York, 322.—Abolition of the payment of interest on deposits at New York, 325.—The call-loan evil at New York, 327.

Journal Article Professor Edgeworth's Views on Index—Numbers Get access C. M. Walsh C. M. Walsh Bellport, N. Y. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 38, Issue 3, May 1924, Pages 500–519, https://doi.org/10.2307/1882334 Published: 01 May 1924

Four periods in the history of immigration policy, marked by the years 1830, 1882, 1917, 654. — The act of 1917 and the literacy test, 656. — The act of 1924 and the forces back of it, 659. — Its provisions, 660. — The Japanese question, 664.

Journal Article Alfred Marshall 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 39, Issue 1, November 1924, Pages 1–14, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883951 Published: 01 November 1924

The circumstances attending the Bank Restriction, 398. — Deviations in exchange rates and specie, 398. — Sentiments of Paine, Fox, and Sheridan; their political objectives, 400. — Walter Boyd's statement of a depreciation theory; responsibility attributed solely to the Bank; indices of excessive issue, 404. — Henry Thornton and the purchasing-power-parity theory; confusion between convertible and inconvertible conditions; defense of the Bank, 407. — Horner's interpretation, 411. — Lord King's view of excess and depreciation; disregard of political factors; exoneration of the country banks, 413. — John Wheatley's program for war financing by systematic lowering of prices; refutation of the country-bank doctrine, 415. — Writings of Ricardo; agitation for immediate contraction of Bank issues and possibly resumption of cash payments; theoretical confusions and inconsistencies; hostility to the Bank; possibly explained by stock-exchange interests, 423. — The Bullion Committee Report a theoretical essay divorced from facts, abounding in misconceptions, and proposing impossible policy, 430. — Ricardo's striking change of attitude in 1819, 437.

The sources of revenue; how much from loans, how much from taxes, 216. — Comparison with the World War, 219. — Relation of unfunded loans to total borrowing, 220. — Remittances to foreign countries: the machinery of payment, 222. — Total of loans and subsidies, 225. — Import and export statistics unattainable, 229.