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The Intensity of Cultivation

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1922 36(4), 646
Question of intensity of culture an old one; never purely objective, 646. — Ability of the entrepreneur the limiting factor, 647. — The problem of intensity of culture stated in one of three ways: entrepreneurship fixed, land fixed, capital fixed, 648. — An experiment may be made with something less than the whole amount of land or capital, 653. — An illustration of the difficulties of the trial method, 654. — Income will be alike for all at the margin, 657. — Intensity varied within a given year, 657. — Social aspect of intensity of culture, 658. — Effect of change of price of product or intensity of culture, 659. — Payment of rent induces intensity of culture, 661. — Effect of changes in wages or capital cost on intensity of culture, 662. — Intensity will vary inversely with these costs, 662.

A Theory of the Rate of Wages

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1922 36(4), 581
Other theories of wages deal with other problems than that of raising wages, 581. — Sources from which increase of nominal wages may come, 585. — How may the laborers command a share of these surpluses? 605. — Increasing real wages by lowering the prices of what the laborer buys, 608. — The laborer's free income, 609. — Factors determining a wage rate in a given industry, 610.

A Crisis in Deposit Guaranty in the State of Washington

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1922 36(2), 350
Journal Article A Crisis in Deposit Guaranty in the State of Washington Get access Howard H. Preston Howard H. Preston University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 36, Issue 2, February 1922, Pages 350–356, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883487 Published: 01 February 1922

Ethics and the Economic Interpretation

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1922 36(3), 454
Bearing on problem of scope and method, 454. — Both economics and ethics deal with value, 454. — Economics as a pure science has given too little attention to separation of constants from variables, 455. — Sense in which wants can be considered as data, 455. — Economic interpretation as a theory of conduct, 459. — Are human motives predominantly economic, 460. — Are they predominantly instinctive, 466. The adaptation theory, 469. — The pleasure theory, 469. — Economics as a study of the adaptation of means to ends, 472. — What becomes of ethics, 476. — Three kinds of treatment of conduct, 481.

The Textile Schedules in the Tariff of 1922

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1922 37(1), 29
Congressional history of textile schedules. — Changes in form of schedules, 31: wool duties, 33; textile manufactures, 39. — Changes in rates of duty, 43; wool manufactures, 46. — Improvement in quality of textile production, and public policy, 49.

German Foreign Trade and the Reparation Payments

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1922 36(3), 482
I. Germany's economic paradox, 482. — The pre-war trade balance, 483. — Why the London Settlement on reparations broke down, 483. — The two periods of falling exchange since the Armistice, and the different behavior of the foreign trade, 485. — II. The reasons for the paradox: composition of the exports and the imports, 487. — Effect upon imports of the abolition of food price control, 489. — Relation of United States exports to German imports last year, 489. — The system of export control, 490. — Effects of depreciating exchange on home buying, 492. — The export trade has responded more sympathetically to a moderate rise of the mark, 493. — A growth of exports sufficient to pay reparations depends largely upon recovery of the Russian market, 493. — How the imports have been paid for and the reparation charges met, 495. — III. Germany's experiences furnish light on the theory of foreign exchange under paper, 498. — Export and domestic prices compared, 499. — The causal sequence appears to have run as follows: reparation payments, depreciating exchange, rising export and import prices, rising internal prices, budgetary deficits and increased private demand for credit, increased note issue, 501.