Knowledge that Transforms

Scope of the paper, 1. — Historical background, 2. — Experience after World War I: United States, 4; Canada, 6; Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, 8. — Resettlement and rehabilitation in the United States: unemployment, 9; rural distress, 10; the Farm Security Administration projects, 11. — Other FSA opportunities: rehabilitation loans, 16; tenant purchase loans, 16. — The new legislation: Canada, 17; New Zealand, 20; United States, 20. — Limited value of certain provisions of the "G. I. Bill": present owners, 22; prospective tenants, 24; prospective buyers, 24. — The legislative background: United States, 27; Canada, 28. — Need for soldier settlement, 29. — Loan values, 31. — Tenant purchase as an alternative, 33. — Concluding remarks, 34.

Journal Article Period Analysis and Timeless Equilibrium Get access William Fellner William Fellner University of California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 58, Issue 2, February 1944, Pages 315–322, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883322 Published: 01 February 1944

Introduction: general defects, 460. — Basic principles of coverage, 461. — Extent of coverage in relation to total employment, 462. — Groups completely exempt from the Act, 468. — Major problems involved in present coverage: competing industries in different positions, 472; gold mining, 473; wholesaling, 474; retailing, 474; exemptions, 476; construction, 476; maintenance, 477. — Suggested revisions of the Act, 477.

Significance of the question, 423. — The structure of an American Plan, 424. —The major assumptions: population growth and levels of employment, 428. — Basis of the estimates, 429. — Comparison with existing public aid programs and national income, 434. — Comparison with proposed American plans, 435.

Scope of the paper: agricultural products chiefly, 521. — Present stage of developments, 522. — Existing commodity agreements: wheat, 523; coffee, 527; beef, 528; sugar, 528; tea, 530; non-agricultural products, 530; cartels, 531. — Buffer stocks, 532. — Wider distribution of food, 534. — Production adjustment, 536. — Chronic surpluses, 538. — Price stabilization: direct control schemes, 540; costs, 542.— Price lifting: tendency, 543; supporting prices, 544; desirability, 546. — The immediate postwar outlook, 547.— Conditions of success, 549. — Overhead organization, 551.

Scope of the paper: effects of a non-progressive balanced increase in the budget, 78. — The mechanics, 79. — Qualifications: character of government output, 82; competition with private enterprise, 83; effect upon the propensity to consume, 83; further effects of taxation, 85. — Comparison of income-generating measures, 88.

I. An importing country may sometimes find it profitable to act as a monopsonist, 229. — II. Case (1) : no foreign trade, 230. — Case (2) : entire home consumption imported, 230. — Case (3) : home consumption supplied by imports and domestic production, 233. — III. Gain of the monopsonist country is less than the loss of the exporting country, 236.— Comparison with Barone's reasoning, 238. — IV. Assumptions made, methods pursued, criteria favored, 239. — V. Summary of conclusions, 243.

Present vagueness of the concept, 359. — Proposed definition, 361. — The general terms of relationship: conditions of employment, 361; grievance procedures, 363; use of grievance machinery for disputes concerning interests, 366. — The obligations of mutuality: good faith, 371; strikes and lockouts, 372; joint concern, 374; continuity, 376; unilateral action, 377. — Employer and employees: employee organization, 379; employer organization, 381; employee representation on boards of directors, 382; mediation, 383; arbitration, 384. — Conclusion, 387.

Introduction, 503. — Classification of pre-war controls, 505. — Purposes of war-time controls, 507. — Techniques of war control, 511. — Negative and positive controls, 514. — Extension of controls, 516. — Personnel problems, 518. — Long-term effects of war controls, 519.

I. Introduction, 36. — II. The first issues of paper currency, 37. — III. Depreciation begins, 41. — IV. Why paper depreciated, 43. — V. Issues of paper for canals and by the Philippine Company, 45. — VI. Paper above par in 1786–1793, 46. — VII. Taxation, loans, and inflation during war with France in 1793–1795 and with England in 1796–1800, 50. — VIII. Paper in terms of specie in 1792–1800, 59. — IX. Reasons for depreciation in 1794–1800, 64. — X. Efforts to control depreciation, 65. — XI. Prices and wages, 72. — XII. Conclusions, 76.