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The “Earning Base” as a “Rate Base” Robert F. Bryan, Robert F. Bryan Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ben W. Lewis Ben W. Lewis Oberlin College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 52, Issue 2, February 1938, Pages 335–345, https://doi.org/10.2307/1881738 Published: 01 February 1938

Journal Article The Economic Theories of John Craig, a Forgotten English Economist Get access Thor W. Bruce Thor W. Bruce St. Louis University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 52, Issue 4, August 1938, Pages 697–707, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885040 Published: 01 August 1938

Introduction, 473. — I. Prosperity, 474. — Financial ties, 474. — Accounting practices, 478. — Control, 481. — II. Transition, 484. — Facing depression, 486. — Plan adopted: first step, 489; second step, 492. — III. The Decline; financial, 497; physical, 501; the employees and the community, 504. — IV. Liquidation, 507. — The question of responsibility, 511.

Scope and purpose of study, 1.— I. Reserve policies of London Clearing House banks: primary expansion, 2.— Customary reserve ratios, 2.— Coefficients of expansion: commercial banking system, 8.— Individual commercial banks, 10.— II. Reserve policies of the Bank of England: systemic expansion, 16. — Deposit expansion, 17. — Currency and deposit expansion, 27.— III. Coefficients of expansion as guides for banking policy and reform, 35.

Journal Article A Note on Economic Aspects of the Theory of Errors in Time Series Get access Gerhard Tintner Gerhard Tintner Iowa State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 53, Issue 1, November 1938, Pages 141–149, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884111 Published: 01 November 1938

VII. Relative marginal productivities of labor and capital, 215.— Time-drift in the data, 220.— VIII. Correspondence between the productivity attributable to labor by the production formula and the actual course of wages, 221.— Possible explanations of the apparent discrepancy, 224.— Correlation between real earnings and marginal product per worker, 232.— Value productivities and real earnings, 238. —IX. Summary and general considerations, 242.— Some criticisms considered: David Durand's, 244; J. M. Clark's, 246.— The paradox of rising interest rates, 248.

Journal Article The Movement of Capital to and from the United States in 1935 and 1936 Get access M. F. Jolliffe M. F. Jolliffe University College of North Wales Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 53, Issue 1, November 1938, Pages 150–159, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884112 Published: 01 November 1938

William Leonard Crum, Rudimentary Mathematics for Economists and Statisticians, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 52, Supplement, Rudimentary Mathematics for Economists and Statisticians (May, 1938), pp. 1-164

I. Introduction, 38.— II. Three conflicting views concerning the incidence of employer excise and employee income taxes, 40.— III. The view that the incidence of pay roll taxes is on profits, 43.— IV. The view that the incidence of pay roll taxes is on the consumers of goods and services of the taxed industries, 53.— V. The view that the incidence of pay roll taxes is on wage rates, 57.— VI. Conclusions: pay roll taxes fall principally on wages in the long run, but a minor part will fall on profits. Interest will not be significantly affected, 61.