Knowledge that Transforms

Journal Article International Freights and Prices Get access Knut Wicksell, Knut Wicksell Mörby, Stocksund, Sweden Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar F. W. Taussig F. W. Taussig Mörby, Stocksund, Sweden Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 32, Issue 2, February 1918, Pages 404–414, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885435 Published: 01 February 1918

The production of castings recently changed from primitive methods by the introduction of molding machines, 278. — Skilled journeymen at first indifferent, 281. — Laborers were used for operation of the machines, 283. — Subsequent change in policy of Molders' Union, 286. — Skilled men on the machines not successful, 287. — The Union and the National Founders' Association unable to make satisfactory terms, 290. — After cessation of negotiations Founders continued to introduce unskilled labor with success, 297. — The Union modified its membership policy to take care of unskilled workmen, 304.

I. Purpose: bearing on other investigations and an example of real economic pressure, 107. — II. Source of data: investigations made at Tsing Hua College, Peking, China, 108. — III. Limitations: an intensive survey of one district and not necessarily typical of the whole country, 110. — IV. Classes represented: Chinese and Manchu villagers, 112. — V. Tables: five tables classifying incomes, average amount expended for various purposes, per cent expended for various purposes, and sundry other items by expenditure groups, 113. — VI. Analysis of tables, 119. — VII. General conclusions, 122. — VIII. Comparison with other investigations: Engel, Mrs. More, Chapin, and the United States Bureau of Labor, 123. — IX. How it is done: the maintenance of a starvation standard, 124. — X. The cost, 127. — Figure I: a comparison of the extremes of variation in the percentage of expenditure for various purposes between the highest and the lowest income groups in five well known investigations, 123. — Figure II: a comparison of the percentage and average expenditures of 195 Chinese and Manchu families, 126.

Journal Article The Behavioristic Man Get access T. N. Carver T. N. Carver Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 33, Issue 1, November 1918, Pages 195–200, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885016 Published: 01 November 1918

The Review of Economic Statistics Get access The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 33, Issue 1, November 1918, Pages 200–201, https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/33.1.200 Published: 01 November 1918

I. General considerations, 487. — Taxation conditions in Europe and the United States, 489. — II. Analysis of the effects of an increment tax of the British type, 490. — III. Numerical illustrations of the results of this type of increment tax, 497. — IV. Comparison with the results of the general property tax in the United States, 504.

Journal Article History of Labor in the United States Get access Ira B. Cross Ira B. Cross University of California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 32, Issue 4, August 1918, Pages 667–673, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883793 Published: 01 August 1918