Knowledge that Transforms

I. Basic American labor conditions and distinctive characteristics of American trade unions, 1. — II. Efforts of the government to protect the right to organize and some of their unintended results, 6. — III. Provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act, 8. — IV. Areas where the law has not brought about important changes, 12. — V. Areas where the law has produced important changes, 21. — VI. Good features of the law, 20. — VII. Provisions of the law which deal with the “right” problems, but which are poorly worked out, 23. — VIII. Bad provisions in the law, 28. — IX. Basic characteristics of a good law, 29.

I. Introduction: the nature of the problem, 289; alternative pricing systems, 292; standards of public policy, 293. — II. Pricing practices and the level and flexibility of margins, 294; and the level of costs, 297. — III. Pricing practices and the long run adaptation of capacity to demand, 300; the location of producers, 304; and the allocation of transport resources, 305. — IV. Pricing practices and capacity in relation to cyclical fluctuations in demand, 306; and the organization of the industry, 309. — V. Summary and conclusions, 313.

I. Introduction, 342. — II. A goal to be attained: a social science, 343. — III. Objectivity of the goal, 348. — IV. Social philosophy and ethics, 353. — V. A practical and normative science, 357. — VI. Conclusion, 360.

I. Interregional trade in the United States, 392. — II. Traditional explanations, 393. — III. Payments data for the United States, 396. — IV. The role of Treasury transfers, 400. — V. Summary, 407.

Introduction, 238. — I. Selling Policy, 239. — II. Integration, 244. — III. Buying Policy, 247. — IV. Conclusions, 255.

I. General comments: the use of mathematics by Hicks and by Samuelson, 111. — II. Samuelson's treatment of cost and production, 114. — III. Hicks and Samuelson on consumers' demand, 118. — IV. Samuelson's dynamics: difference equations, 121.

Introduction: The theory of the accelerator to date, 174. — How steady growth is generated, 176. — Influence of the investment period, 180. — Influence of the income period, 181. — A more general case, 182. — Qualifications, 186. — Price as a stabilizer, 188. — Appendix, 193.

Introduction: Change in monetary velocity as a measure of change in the demand for money, 68. — Types of money and their respective velocities, 69. — Velocity data pertinent to analysis of business fluctuations, 71. — Controversial issues regarding monetary velocity, 74. — The secular trend in circuit velocity of money, 75. — The trend in velocity and growth in time deposits, 81. — Seasonality of production and the rate of use of money, 84. — Factors in the declining trend in the rate of use of money, 86. — Interrelations between changes in the quantity and velocity of money, 90.

I. Basic purposes, 322. — II. Attempts at quadripartite agreement, 325. — III. Reorganization in the U. S. Zone, 325. — IV. Reorganization in the French and British Zones, 328. — V. The new Central Bank in the Western Zones, 330. — VI. Reorganization in the Soviet Zone, 333. — VII. The situation in Berlin, 337. — VIII. Conclusion, 339.