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Centralized Versus Decentralized Resource Allocation: The Yugoslav "Laboratory"

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1968 82(4), 561
I. Introduction: comparing allocation mechanisms in an ideal laboratory, 561. — II. The "administrative" period in postwar Yugoslavia, 567. — III. The decentralized mechanism in Yugoslavia, 572. — IV. The administrative and the decentralized periods: comparison of aggregates, 574. — V. The performance of the new mechanism: noncomparative analysis, 579. — VI. Concluding remarks, 585.

The Turning Point in the Japanese Economy

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1968 82(3), 380
I. Statistical findings, 381; changes in the marginal productivity of labor in the subsistence sector, 381; changes in the wage rate in the subsistence sector, 384; relationship between the wage rate and marginal productivity in the subsistence sector, 387; elasticity of labor supply to the capitalist sector, 388; changes in the subsistence sector labor force, 390; concluding remarks, 394. — II. Examination of statistical studies by other writers, 395; comments on Fei-Ranis' conclusions, 395; comments on Jorgenson's conclusions, 398.— Appendix A: cross-sectional test of the marginal productivity theory, 400.— Appendix B: mathematical examinations of the changes in the capital-labor ratio, labor productivity, and the capital-output ratio, 401.

The Effects of Specific and Ad Valorem Taxes

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1968 82(2), 198
Introduction, 198. — I. Specific tax, 198. — II. Ad valorem tax, 202. — III. Comparisons of specific and ad valorem taxes, 204. — IV. Tax burdens, 208; pure competition with pecuniary external diseconomies, 209; pure competition with real external diseconomies, 212; monopoly with fixed factor, 213; monopoly plus monopsony, 215; monopoly with other internal disecono|mies, 216; other cost and supply patterns, 217.