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The writer's general attitude toward economic history, 167. — Motives, conscious and unconscious, 169. — Unreliability of contemporary opinion, 171. — Population figures, 174. — Forestry, 176. — Coke on the Baltic trade, 176. — Problems of development, 179. — Value of statistics collected for other purposes, 180. — Statistical presentation of non-numerical facts, 180. — Inferences concerning matters outside the scope of materials themselves, 181. — Failure of data to reveal what might be expected, 184. — Swedish capitation tax, 184. — Importance of what the sources are about, 188. — Customs accounts, 189. — Comparing data from different sources, etc., 189. — Mathematical treatment, 190. — Small factors with great influence, 192. — Cause and effect, 193.

Journal Article Pareto Versus Marshall Get access E. B. Wilson E. B. Wilson Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 53, Issue 4, August 1939, Pages 645–650, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883289 Published: 01 August 1939

Introduction: two approaches to the problem, 522. — I. Rigidity as a relative concept, 522; as a characteristic of the total system of prices, 524; as an indication of the degree of monopoly, 525. — Measurement of the degree of monopoly, 526. — II. The method employed: average prime costs vs. marginal costs, 527. — The statistical technique, 529. — Analysis of the data, 530.

Nature and coverage of the data, 372. — The statistical technique, 375. — The timing of the cycles, 377. — Comparison with general business fluctuations, 380. — Causes of the differences, 381. — The duration of long cycles, 386. — The rôle of war, 387. — Factors responsible for cycles in American building, 388. — The severity of long cycles, 391. — Causes: the acceleration principle, 393; ready-made production, 394; high proportion of rigid and direct costs, 397; profits and the rate of interest, 400. — Summary, 402.

Journal Article The Propensity to Consume: Reply Get access Elizabeth W. Gilboy Elizabeth W. Gilboy Harvard University Committee on Research in the Social Sciences Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 53, Issue 4, August 1939, Pages 633–638, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883285 Published: 01 August 1939

The data, 404. — Definitions, 407. — Number of executives, 409. — Fluctuation in compensation, 409. — Executive compensation and earnings, 411. — Executive compensation and sales, 415. — Executive compensation, earnings and dividends, 420. — Dollar compensation of chief executives, 426. — Relationship of assets to dollar executive compensation, 428. — Bonus policies, 429. — Conclusions, 432.

I. Provisions of the Reichserbhofgesetz, 465.—Amendments and modifications, 467.—II. Motives underlying the law: improving the immediate condition of the farmer, 467.—III. Social or national objectives: checking subdivision of farm properties, 469; establishment of a rural caste, 470; protection to the rural birthrate, 471.—IV. Effects of the law, 472. — The problem of new farm financing, 473.—Destruction of property values, 474. — Check to progress of landless toward land ownership, 475.—V. General conclusions, 476.