Knowledge that Transforms

Concluding Remarks Get access Wilfred Malenbaum Wilfred Malenbaum Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 54, Issue 2, February 1940, Pages 358–364, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883343 Published: 01 February 1940

Journal Article Rejoinder Get access John D. Black, John D. Black Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Wilfred Malenbaum Wilfred Malenbaum Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 54, Issue 2, February 1940, Pages 346–358, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883342 Published: 01 February 1940

Scope of the paper, 217.— I. Elasticities of demand usually obtained by methods which are open to two objections: the time element, 218; data are for markets, 218.— A possible way out, 219.— Data available and method to be used, 220.— II. Coefficients for various commodities, 221.— Substitution, 221.— Relation to income, 224.— III. Spread of consumption around the averages, 225.— IV. Inferences concerning the desirability of price reductions, 229.

The Incidence of Sales Taxes: A Note on Methodology Get access Benjamin Higgins Benjamin Higgins Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 54, Issue 4_Part_1, August 1940, Pages 665–672, https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/54.4_Part_1.665 Published: 01 August 1940

Further Comment Get access Mordecai Ezekiel Mordecai Ezekiel Washington, D. C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 54, Issue 2, February 1940, Pages 331–346, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883341 Published: 01 February 1940

I. The problem, 539. — II. The utilization of productive resources in a static equilibrium economy: (1) The formal theory of prices and price-margins in an equilibrium economy, 542; (2) Static equilibrium and continuity, 545; (3) The meaning of “full utilization” in a static equilibrium economy, 547. — III. The determinants of margins in a static equilibrium economy: (1) The limiting power of the strategic factor, 550; (2) Real costs as determinant of margins of utilization, 552; (3) Institutional limitations on the utilization of resources, 554; (4) The monetary supply as the limiting factor, 556. — IV. The expansion of production without increase of the supply of money: (1) Through saving of monetary income, 558; (2) Through technological improvement, 560. — V. Expansion of production with increase in the monetary supply, 561. — Overcoming inflated price-resistances, 562. — Effect of reduction in the interest rate, 564. — Conclusion, 564.

Journal Article The Use of the Short-Cut Graphic Method of Multiple Correlation: Comment Get access Louis H. Bean Louis H. Bean Washington, D. C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 54, Issue 2, February 1940, Pages 318–331, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883340 Published: 01 February 1940

I. The problem: the theoretical prediction of tax shifting and incidence versus its actual measurement, 429. — Practical importance of the latter in administrative law in tax refunds, 430. — II. Limitations of the field: definitions, 433. — III. The law on tax burden shifting, 436. — Precedent for recognition of tax shifting, 437. — Absence of precedent for its measurement, 438. — IV. The economics of the measurement of tax burden shifting, 440. — Refund provisions of the 1936 Revenue Act, 441. — Economic precedent for analysis of margins, 443. — Business precedent in use of spreads, 446. — Implications of use of margins in measurement of tax burden shifting, 449. — Asserted impossibility of proof, 451. — Conclusion, 454.