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Mr. Mallock's estimates, 216. — Average number of incomes per unit of the range of incomes in each group used as a measure of density, 218. — Density coefficients, 220. — Three strata of income receivers, 221. — Density coefficients vary with the reciprocals of the cubes of the corresponding incomes, 222. — Corrected average incomes for groups, 224. — Rectified tables of income distribution, 226. — Advantage in taxing all incomes above £100, 227. — Formula for graduation of the tax rate, 228. — Tax yield controlled by varying the ultimate rate, 229. — Its incidence controlled by varying the size of income to which half the ultimate rate applies, 232. — Modifications to fit the use of step rates and of abatements, 236.

Recent Tax Legislation in Iowa Get access John E. Brindley John E. Brindley Iowa State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 26, Issue 1, November 1911, Pages 178–182, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884533 Published: 01 November 1911

Journal Article The Taxation of Intangible Property in Minnesota Get access Wilfred Eldred Wilfred Eldred Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 26, Issue 1, November 1911, Pages 182–185, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884534 Published: 01 November 1911

Journal Article Progress of the Automatic Loom Get access Melvin T. Copeland Melvin T. Copeland Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 25, Issue 4, August 1911, Pages 746–750, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885841 Published: 01 August 1911

The German Increment Tax Law of February 14, 1911 Get access The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 25, Issue 4, August 1911, Pages 751–765, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885842 Published: 01 August 1911

Journal Article Mr. Mallock as Statistician and British Income Statistics Get access Allyn A. Young Allyn A. Young Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 25, Issue 2, February 1911, Pages 376–386, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884954 Published: 01 February 1911

Journal Article Recent Publications on Women in Industry Get access Warren M. Persons Warren M. Persons Dartmouth College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 25, Issue 3, May 1911, Pages 594–612, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883617 Published: 01 May 1911

Method of business in the trade with South America; the commission house problem, 118. — Three groups of South American countries; nature and extent of the exports to each, 121. — Ten groups of exported articles; by what method they are handled, 125. — Character and proportion of the exports handled by commission houses, 132. — Doubts whether manufacturers are wise in dispensing with such houses, 135.

Mistakes of economic history and of philology when dealing with origins, 240. — Philology cannot be dissociated from economic history, 241. — Evidences of early importation of steel from China, 242. — Weighing machines probably introduced from China, 245. — The origin of the tartan manufacture in Central Asia. The evidence thereof in the languages of Europe, 246. — The fallacy of the Garbo wool and cloth theory of the economists, 252. — Garbo applied to another textile than woolens, 255. — Garbo parchment, 256. — Garbo identified with the goat, 258. — Garbo an expression for A 1, 259. — Fallacy of the economic theory as to the origin of the grocer, 261. — What constituted “retail” in the early Middle Ages, 262. — The relation of “retail” to “wholesale,” 264. — Analysis of the Ordinance of the Fishmongers of Amiens for this relation, 266. — The grossier more nearly a commission merchant, 267. — Genesis of the English grocer. Ordinances for weighing “goods of weight,” 271. — The grocer so called from selling “grosses,” 273. — The grocer not so called from engrossing commodities, 274. — The spicerers and grocers of Byzantium, the prototypes of the Italian and, hence, of the English spicerers and grocers, 275. — Origin of the word “spices,” 276. — Origin and meaning of the word “avoir du pois,” 277.

IV. Distance as a factor in rate making, 279. — 1. Rates increase with distance, 282. — 2. Modifications of the distance principle, 288. — V. Natural advantages of location, 291. — 1. Natural advantages due to lower costs, 294. — 2. Natural advantages due to distance, 303. — 3. Group rates, 307. — 4. Natural advantages due to competition, 314. — VI. Competition as a factor in rate making, 317. — 1. Competition between carriers subject to and those not subject to the act to regulate commerce, 319. — 2. Competition between carriers subject to the act, 323. — 3. Competition between places or sections, 329.