Knowledge that Transforms

Restricted voting control comparatively recent, 353. — I. Non-voting industrial stocks. Preferred issues, 357. — Common stock, 360. — II. Contingent voting industrial stocks; their importance and characteristics, 362. — Non-voting contingent voting issues, 364. — Non-voting with exceptions — contingent voting, 364. Non-voting for directors — contingent voting, 366. — Full voting — contingent voting, 367. — III. Conditions which render operative the contingent voting rights. Dividend defaults, 367. — Other contingencies, 372. — IV. Extent of contingent voting control when operative. Exclusive voting, 374. — Extra voting, 375. — Full voting, 376. — Exclusive voting for directors, 377. — Contingent voting common shares, 378. — V. Railroad and public utility non-voting and contingent voting stocks: Utilities, 378; Railroads, 381. — VI. Arguments for and against non-voting stocks, 382. — Advisable to prohibit strictly non-voting issues, 385. — Ineffectiveness of full voting rights to prevent centralized voting control, 386. — VII. Conclusion. Advantages of strong contingent voting issues, 388.

Introductory: connection between the ancient Greek and Roman sea loan and the medieval Genoese type, 495. — Position of the sea loan before the Civil and Canon Law, 499. — The bona fide sea loan, 501. — Interest rates charged, 505. — Time and method of repayment, 507. — Security required, 508. — The pignus type of sea loan, 510. — Its importance as an addition to the credit machinery of Genoa, 511. — As a means of speculation, 518. — The usury-evasion type, 520. — Operation of the insurance principle, 523. — Relationship of medieval sea loan and modern bottomry bond, 526. — Conclusion, 528.

Journal Article Banking Policy and the Price Level Get access Warren M. Persons Warren M. Persons Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 40, Issue 4, August 1926, Pages 689–698, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884460 Published: 01 August 1926

Journal Article Social Control of Business Get access E. S. Furniss E. S. Furniss Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 41, Issue 1, November 1926, Pages 167–170, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885558 Published: 01 November 1926

Where do things "belong" in an urban area? 404. — Inadequacy of current analysis, 404. — Study of location trends in New York as a method of attacking the problem, 406. — Summary of trends in location of manufacturing and other economic activities, 407. — Complications caused by fluctuations in prosperity of groups studied, 414. — Advantages of discussing problem in terms of functions, 417. — Cohesion of functions, 417. — The problem of rating the functions, 419. — Accessibility and the costs of friction, 420. — Layout determined by the minimizing of the costs of friction; an hypothesis, 422, — The hypothesis explained and tested, 423. — Distorting and retarding factors, 429. — Primary and ancillary activities, 430. — The economic basis of zoning, 431.

Introductory — Changed scope of city planning and the resulting need for economic assistance, 180. — The problem of an efficient "pattern of population" considered abstractly, 183. — Fundamental importance of transportation advantages in assembling assortments of consumption goods, 186. — Advantages in distributing such assortments, 187. — Consumption advantages of non-urban locations, 188. — Effects upon location of perishability and variation in weight and bulk of goods, 190. — Family unit and location, 193. — Influence of trade-union "exactions, " 195. — General factors of retardation and distortion, 196. — Variations in the factors influencing the pattern, 197. — Correlation between growth and variations in relative transportation advantages in history of New York City, 204.