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The Federal Trade Commission a Critical Survey

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1926 40(4), 561
I. Genesis of Federal Trade Commission law, 562. — II. Value of investigations made by Economic Division, 566. — Proceedings instituted by Legal Division mainly for protection of customers, rather than competitors, 568. — Regulative policies unsoundly drawn in three directions, 571. — Principal criticism is of failure of Commission to define limits of its corrective responsibility, 574. — Accomplishments of Commission as an advisory and consultative body, 578. — Significance of recent changes in rules of procedure, 579. — III. How inflexibility and lack of dispatch in administrative procedure may be overcome, 580. — Some suggestions toward substantive amendment of Clayton and Federal Trade Commission Acts, 584.

Stockholders' Voting Rights and the Centralization of Voting Control

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1926 40(3), 353
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.

Recent Texts on the Methods of Economic Statistics

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1926 40(3), 530
Journal Article Recent Texts on the Methods of Economic Statistics Get access W. L. Crum W. L. Crum Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 40, Issue 3, May 1926, Pages 530–546, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885176 Published: 01 May 1926