The Philadelphia tapestry manufacture, 450.—The mills classed in Groups A, B, C, 452. — Hourly and weekly earnings at different mills compared, 453.—Entrances to Class A mills, 455.—Entrances to Class B mills, 459.—Entrances to Class C mills, 461.—Conclusion, 463.
The problem and its relation to the supply and demand control of rates of exchange involving future goods, — I. Comparative values of futures and spots in relation to available supplies from crops, 368. — A future trade is an exchange of future money for a future commodity, and does not involve present goods, 370. — II. Indications of a downward bias in grain and cotton futures call for explanation, 372. — III. Bohm-Bawerk's theory of a discount on the future is quite another matter, 375. — IV. But a difference in the relative valuation of money and any specific commodity may be expected according to whether the comparison pertains to the present or to the future, 377. — This situation as expressed in terms of mathematical inequalities, 379. — V. Commercial experience and observation of the comparative value of “immediates,” 379. — The downward bias costly to hedge sellers, 383. — VI. Conclusion, — The present article calls attention to a neglected condition, and perhaps suggests a needed addition to theory, 385.
Journal Article Ricardo's Notes on Malthus Get access E. S. Mason E. S. Mason Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 42, Issue 4, August 1928, Pages 684–696, https://doi.org/10.2307/1882540 Published: 01 August 1928
I. The decreasing cost schedule as a schedule of uniform or average cost, 170. — Incompatible with rent, 170. — Marshall's particular expenses curve and its uses, 171. — II. Professor Knight's prediction that an increased demand increases normal price, 175. — It ignores possible economies, 177. — It overlooks reduced demand elsewhere, 178. — III. The possibility of increasing cost, 180. — Professor Sraffa's view, 181. — Professor Pigou's view, 183. — Professor H. E. Miller on consumers' surplus, 185. — IV. The maximum satisfaction doctrine, 189. — Professor Pigou's statement, 189. — Marshall's treatment, 190. — Method and assumptions in dealing with the tax and the bounty as one problem, 191. — Four cases, 193. — The general conclusion, 196.
I. Controversies in economic theory are of varying importance, — The explanatory and instrumental aspects of economic theory, 335. — Changing facts and social theories, 337. — II. The place of “facts” in economic controversy, 339. — The relation of psychology to economic theory, 343. — Mechanistic and organic social theories as a source of controversy, 347. — Difficulties arising out of the organic analogy, 349. — III. The philosophy of “social control,” 351. — IV. Chaotic possibilities of “viewpoints” in economics, 355. — Uses and limitations of the mechanistic view, 356. — Types of new “approaches” to economics, and their limitations, 359. — Sacrifices entailed in eliminating controversies, 360. — The scientific character of economics, old and new, 362.
I. Cost not to be identified with entrepreneur expenses, 531. — Classification of costs, 532. — The objective factor in cost, 534. — II. Cost of production does not govern value, 535. — The function of cost of production, 539. — III. Cost of acquisition underlies demand, 540. — IV. Two factors in decline of price-offers for additional units, 542. — Marshall's objection to the second, 544. — The derived demand schedule, 545. — V. Apparent circuity of the value system, 546. — Multiple valuation the escape, 547. — VI. The value of scarcity-products, 549. — Three cases, 550. — VII. The influence of variations in the objective factors, 554. — Marshall's cost curves, 555. — VIII. Efficiency cost in using labor, 556. — Land, 557. — Professor Bye's reasoning, 558. — Savings, 559. — IX. Special relation of the entrepreneur to market values, 561. — The r61e of profits, 562.
I. Introductory, — II. The Issue and its Joinder, 308. — III. Judgment delivered, 311. — The Opinions of Lukin and Beeby, 312. — The Opinion of the Chief Judge, 314. — IV. Evidence on Australian Productivity before and after the War, 319. — V. The Judgment and the Fiscal Policy of Australia, 321. — VI. Indications of the attitude of the Court on subsequent applications, 322. — VII. Decisions on subsequent applications of 1927, 325.
Journal Article A Note on Comparative Costs Get access Arthur F. Burns Arthur F. Burns Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 42, Issue 3, May 1928, Pages 495–500, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884789 Published: 01 May 1928
Journal Article The Literature of Employee Representation Get access Paul F. Gemmill Paul F. Gemmill University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 42, Issue 3, May 1928, Pages 479–494, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884788 Published: 01 May 1928
Journal Article Theories of the Labor Movement, as Set Forth in Recent Literature Get access Lyle W. Cooper Lyle W. Cooper Marquette University, Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 43, Issue 1, November 1928, Pages 154–170, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883945 Published: 01 November 1928