Journal Article Professor Edgeworth's Views on Index—Numbers Get access C. M. Walsh C. M. Walsh Bellport, N. Y. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 38, Issue 3, May 1924, Pages 500–519, https://doi.org/10.2307/1882334 Published: 01 May 1924
Four periods in the history of immigration policy, marked by the years 1830, 1882, 1917, 654. — The act of 1917 and the literacy test, 656. — The act of 1924 and the forces back of it, 659. — Its provisions, 660. — The Japanese question, 664.
Journal Article Alfred Marshall Get access F. W. Taussig F. W. Taussig 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 1–14, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883951 Published: 01 November 1924
The circumstances attending the Bank Restriction, 398. — Deviations in exchange rates and specie, 398. — Sentiments of Paine, Fox, and Sheridan; their political objectives, 400. — Walter Boyd's statement of a depreciation theory; responsibility attributed solely to the Bank; indices of excessive issue, 404. — Henry Thornton and the purchasing-power-parity theory; confusion between convertible and inconvertible conditions; defense of the Bank, 407. — Horner's interpretation, 411. — Lord King's view of excess and depreciation; disregard of political factors; exoneration of the country banks, 413. — John Wheatley's program for war financing by systematic lowering of prices; refutation of the country-bank doctrine, 415. — Writings of Ricardo; agitation for immediate contraction of Bank issues and possibly resumption of cash payments; theoretical confusions and inconsistencies; hostility to the Bank; possibly explained by stock-exchange interests, 423. — The Bullion Committee Report a theoretical essay divorced from facts, abounding in misconceptions, and proposing impossible policy, 430. — Ricardo's striking change of attitude in 1819, 437.
The sources of revenue; how much from loans, how much from taxes, 216. — Comparison with the World War, 219. — Relation of unfunded loans to total borrowing, 220. — Remittances to foreign countries: the machinery of payment, 222. — Total of loans and subsidies, 225. — Import and export statistics unattainable, 229.
An important movement, in need of quantitative measurement, 16. — Federal income-tax returns indicate a wider distribution of dividend payments, 17. — Corroborative evidence furnished by a study of stock ownership in 281 corporations, 21. — An estimate of total capital stock of American corporations and of the number of domestic stockholders, 26. — Two periods of rapid diffusion, 29. — Stock ownership by employees, 32. — By customers, 32. — Labor banks, 33. — Tax-exempt securities, 35. — Effect of Liberty Bond campaigns, 35. — Increase of savings deposits, 36. — Effect of higher wages, 37. — Conclusion, 38.
Supplies come on the market, not as quantities available for sale, but as flow responding to demand, 632. — Manufacturers' usual practice is to "sell then make, " not "make for stock, " 634. — Details of the "sell-then-make" policy, 635. — The "make-for-stock" policy sometimes followed in part; its virtues, 636. — Connection of the sell-then-make policy with business cycles, 642. — Demands from distributers bring response in production, 642. — If products are not forthcoming, orders are exaggerated or duplicated, 645. — False demands lead to over-enlargement of supplies, 647. — Reaction. Alternate exaggeration and understatement of consumers' demands, 648.
Kyrk's Theory of Consumption Get access Z. Clark Dickinson Z. Clark Dickinson University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 38, Issue 2, February 1924, Pages 343–346, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884017 Published: 01 February 1924
The Economic Law of Market Areas Frank A. Fetter Frank A. Fetter Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 38, Issue 3, May 1924, Pages 520–529, https://doi.org/10.2307/1882335 Published: 01 May 1924
Arguments for social interference developed by Pigou and Graham illustrate common misinterpretations of the meaning of cost and its variation with output, 582. — I. The private owner of a natural opportunity secures maximum return from it by charging that rent which halts the application of investment at the point which is socially most advantageous, 584. — II. The notion of decreasing cost is a fallacy; competitive price fixation under decreasing cost or increasing returns an impossible situation, 592. — III. The law of comparative advantage in international trade is fundamentally sound, 599. — Importation a method of using resources to produce the imported good, and will be employed under competitive conditions only when more efficient than a direct method, 603. — The competitive system has important defects, but they lie outside the mechanical theory of exchange relations, 605.