Introduction, 380. — I. The nature of the theory of workable competition, 383. — II. The several concepts of workability, 386. — III. Performance norms and value judgments, 391. — IV. Necessary vs. sufficient conditions, 395. — V. Remediability vs. categorical norms, 402. — VI. The workability criterion reformulated, 410. — Appendix, 415.

I. Theory of economic policy and processes of economic growth, 574. — II. Factors in appraising the developmental content of economic policy, 577. — III. Commercial policy in postwar Southeast Asia, 579. — IV. Conclusion, 586.

Peak Loads and Efficient Pricing: Further Comment Get access H. S. Houthakker H. S. Houthakker Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 72, Issue 3, August 1958, Pages 463–464, https://doi.org/10.2307/1882235 Published: 01 August 1958

Introduction, 241. — The growth of captive finance companies, 242. — Effects on competition, 243. — Other examples of the competitive use of credit, 246. — Noncompetitive uses of credit, 248. — Effects on credit policy, 248. — Individual industry experience, 251. — Summary, 257.

I. Introduction, 23; purpose of the analysis, 23; nature of the data, 25. — II. Direct forecasting value of the anticipatory data, 26; capital outlay plans, 26; sales anticipations, 34. — III. Errors of sales anticipations and the realization of investment plans — an example of the realization function approach, 36; statement of the problem, 36; formulation of the model, 39; empirical results, 43; some analytical implications, 47; some forecasting implications, 50. — Appendix, 53.

I. Freight yards, 516 — II. Output and employment decisions, 517. — III. Switching output, 518. — IV. Delivery output, 523. — V. Aversion functions, 526. — VI. Costs and the complete model, 528. — VII. Tests and prediction, 529. — VIII. Summary and conclusions, 535.