I. Expansion of the traditional concept of durable consumer goods, 415. — II. Socio-economic features, 418. — III. Illustrations of significant consequences, 420. —IV. Conclusion, 423.

Journal Article A Note on Social Overhead and a Dynamic Analysis of Industry Get access Arthur H. Cole Arthur H. Cole Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 74, Issue 3, August 1960, Pages 413–415, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883058 Published: 01 August 1960

Journal Article Comparative Costs in the Worsted-cloth Manufacture, American and Foreign Get access Arthur H. Cole Arthur H. Cole Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 43, Issue 3, May 1929, Pages 550–561, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885925 Published: 01 May 1929

The significance of the industry in economic history and in the study of international trade, 595. — I. Changes in domestic production: South Atlantic states, 598. — Mississippi delta, 603. — Southwestern states, 605. — California, 611. — Reduction in labor cost, 613. — Expansion of total output, 615. — Increasing yield per acre, 617. II. Competitive position of the American industry: Changes in imports and exports, 620. — Conditions favoring domestic culture, 623. — Advantages of oriental production, 628. — Relation of wages and other incomes to the comparative position of the respective industries, 636. — Conclusion, 641.

The Chenille Axminster Carpet Manufacture Get access Arthur H. Cole Arthur H. Cole Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 39, Issue 1, November 1924, Pages 136–144, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883958 Published: 01 November 1924

The wool manufacture seemingly not a promising field for combination. — The commencement of the American Woolen Company, 438. — The experience of the Company: growth in size, 442. — Selling policies, 446. — Labor policy, 452.—Financial experience, 455.— The Cleveland Worsted Mills Company, 464. — The United States Worsted Company, 467. — Significance of combination in the wool manufacture, 472. — Bases of success, 474.

Congressional history of textile schedules. — Changes in form of schedules, 31: wool duties, 33; textile manufactures, 39. — Changes in rates of duty, 43; wool manufactures, 46. — Improvement in quality of textile production, and public policy, 49.

I. Conditions on the Continent, 103. — In Great Britain: technical advance, 106. — Overhead charges, 113. — Labor conditions, 114. — II. American experience: overexpansion of productive capacity and increase in disadvantageous lines, 118. — Conditions of technical equipment, 120. — Wage conditions, 126. — Standardization of products, 128. — Industrial organization, 129. — Possible improvement in competitive strength of American industry: through technical advance, 130. — Through control of wages, 133. — Through increased standardization, 134. — Conclusion, 135.

ECONOMIC surveys of the United States in the pre-Civil-War period never fail to make note of the revulsion of business which came in the year I857. Sometimes this is indicated as the culmination of a speculative movement of considerable, though uncertain, duration. Sometimes it is spoken of as a peculiar, almost quixotic, affair, deriving immediately from the failure of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company, just as the of i837 is alleged to have flowed directly from the single cause of the famous Specie Circular. Again, where such accounts make allowance for speculative activity as forerunner of the debacle of I857, the chief generative element of this speculation is held to have been the enlargement of gold supplies after the discoveries of the mid-century. Yet little has heretofore been accomplished in the scientific appraisal of business conditions in these years, and in particular little has been done in attempting to array together the several aspects of business experience with the object of discovering the various interrelations of these elements. An important exception to the first statement would be W. L. Thorp's Business Annals; but as his study is non-statistical in character, it lacks close comparability with that here undertaken. In the belief that greater realism may be given the crisis of I857 by the procedure just mentioned, certain data on the volume of trade, and on banking and finance, are here joined to those whiclh have been presented elsewhere upon the course of commodity prices, common stock values, and public land sales; and an effort is now made to reveal some of the differences in these several movements.1 THE VOLUME OF TRADE