Knowledge that Transforms

Introductory survey of legislation, 262. — I. Developments 1920–1926, 265. — The Act of 1927, 273. — II. Leniency of Boards of Guardians not an adequate explanation of conditions, 275. — III. Extent of overlapping of Poor Law and Insurance System, 280. — Analysis of recipients of aid from both, 285. — Conclusion, 287.

Journal Article Stock Dividends, Large Scale Business, and Corporate Savings — A Criticism Get access Gardiner C. Means Gardiner C. Means Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 45, Issue 3, May 1931, Pages 536–540, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883905 Published: 01 May 1931

Journal Article Irving Fisher's "Theory of Interest" Get access Gottfried Haberler Gottfried Haberler University of Vienna Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 45, Issue 3, May 1931, Pages 499–516, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883901 Published: 01 May 1931

Introduction, 1. — I. Definition of terms, 2. — II. Reactions to a falsified good: (1) the genuine is displaced, 8; (2) both remain in use, 11; (3) the falsified disappears, 13; (4) the demand for both falls, 13; (5) the demand for both increases, 16. — Importance of knowledge, 17. — III. Effect of conditions of production, 20; of elasticity of supply, 21. — IV. Effect of legal enactments: labelling, 23; grading, 25. — V. Effect upon the national economy and the final user, 26. — Waste, 27. — Introduction of novelties, 30. — Expense for protection, 31.

I. The argument that labor-saving improvements release purchasing power and so reabsorb displaced labor, 684.— The fallacy in this argument, 686.— Circumstances under which the displaced labor will be reabsorbed, 687.— II. Effect of price reduction, 688; of restrictions upon credit and wage rates, 690.— III. Effect of price maintenance, 692; of lower interest rates, 693.— IV. The effect of universal monopoly upon unemployment, 696.— Quasi-monopoly control of prices contrasted with rigid control of wage-rates, 697.

I. Introduction, 640.—II. Saint-Simon in his relation to the policy of laissez-faire, 642.—Neither Saint-Simon nor the Saint-Simonians were socialists, 648.—III. The philosophy of history, 650.—The principle of productivity and its importance, 651.—IV. The rule of law and the harmony of interests in a society of producers, 657.—V. The Saint-Simonian criticism of competition, 665.—The division between the idle and the producing class, 668.—The rationalisation of economic enterprise, 674.—VI. The position and importance of the banks, 675.—The theory and rational use of credit, 677.—VII. Conclusion, 680.

Journal Article The Motives of Inventors Get access Joseph Rossman Joseph Rossman United States Patent Office, Washington, D. C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 45, Issue 3, May 1931, Pages 522–528, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883903 Published: 01 May 1931

Journal Article The Decline of the Commercial Loan Get access Lauchlin Currie Lauchlin Currie Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 45, Issue 4, August 1931, Pages 698–709, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883250 Published: 01 August 1931

I. Scope of the treatise, 547.—II. The theory of prices; the equations of exchange; relation between investment and saving, 549.— Does it solve the “dilemma” of the “over-savings” theories? 553. — Specific maladjustments, 555.— Profit versus anticipated profit, 556.— III. The money mechanism. Distinction between income and savings deposits; treatment of demand and time deposits, 558. The problem of business deposits, 560. Security booms and deposits; does speculation tie up credit? 567.—IV. Bank control of prices, 573. Bank rate and investment, 575.— Market rate and “natural rate,” 578. Bank control and the major depressions: the nineties, 581; — England since the war, 583; — the current depression, 584.— Bank control by action “in advance,” 584.— External versus internal stability, 586.

Introduction. The concept “control.” — Types of control; complete ownership, 72; majority control, 73; legal device, 74; minority control, 81; and management control, 83. — Separation of ownership and control among the 200 largest American corporations; basis of classification and extent of separation, 89. — Conclusion, 95. — Tables showing types of control, 98.