Introduction, 475.—I. Prewar undervaluation of price control by economists as an instrument of emergency policy, 476. — II. Relation of market structure to informal rationing by the seller, 478. — III. Relation of market structure to enforcement, 480. — IV. Price inflexibility as an aid to price control, 481.—V. Conventional pricing as a further aid, 483. — VI. The period of grace between price-fixing and shortage, 484. — VII. Constant and decreasing costs in relation to price control, 485. — VIII. Concluding disclaimer, and comment on administration, 488.

I. Provisions of the Reichserbhofgesetz, 465.—Amendments and modifications, 467.—II. Motives underlying the law: improving the immediate condition of the farmer, 467.—III. Social or national objectives: checking subdivision of farm properties, 469; establishment of a rural caste, 470; protection to the rural birthrate, 471.—IV. Effects of the law, 472. — The problem of new farm financing, 473.—Destruction of property values, 474. — Check to progress of landless toward land ownership, 475.—V. General conclusions, 476.

I. Some shortcomings of the usual explanations of price rigidities, 456.—The method of attack on the problem, 459.— II. The coexistence of monopoly power and rigid prices, 459.— III. The nature of the monopoly equilibrium and of the movement between positions of monopoly equilibrium as "causes" of rigidity, 463.— IV. The choice of rigid prices, as such, under conditions of monopoly power: 1. As an aid to oligopoly adjustment, 466; 2. As an aid to resale price maintenance, 468; 3. As result of the use of average costs in pricing, 470; 4. As result of monopoly inertia, 472. — V. Conclusions and bearing on public policy, 473.

Introduction, 394. — The definition of marketing, 396. — Retailing costs, 398. — Wholesaling costs, 398. — Manufacturer's marketing costs more difficult to estimate, 399. — Total cost of marketing in excess of 24 billion, 1929, 401. — Marketing costs compared with value added by manufacture, 402. — Income from marketing, 403. — Census of distribution facilitates estimate of marketing employment, 404. — Total marketing employment in excess of 8 million, 1929, 406. — Employment in marketing increased rapidly during the last two decades, 407. — Conclusions, 411. — Increasing specialization as a cause of increasing marketing costs, 412.