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Some Positive Contributions of the Institutional Concept

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1927 41(3), 405
I. Human nature and economic behavior, 405. — II. An extension of scientific method in economics, 408. — III. An enlargement of value theory, 417. — IV. Control of distributive shares, 423. — V. The increase of production, with decreased human costs, 427. — VI. A science of consumers' choices, 430. — VII. The integration of monographic researches, 434. — VIII. Some old ideals and their present realization, 438.

Labor Problems as Treated by American Economists

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1927 41(3), 487
Journal Article Labor Problems as Treated by American Economists Get access Charles E. Persons Charles E. Persons Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 41, Issue 3, May 1927, Pages 487–519, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883703 Published: 01 May 1927

The Influence of the Anglo-French Treaty of Commerce of 1860 on the Development of the Iron Industry in France

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1927 41(2), 317
Concentration of French iron industry delayed by use of charcoal and inadequate means of transportation, 318. — Construction of railroads stimulates iron industry, 320. — Regions where iron industry developed most: Lorraine; Nord and Pas de Calais; Centre; Upper Marne — its transportation and fuel problems, 321. — Comments of Inspector General of Mines on cutlery industry of Upper Marne, 327. — His comments on iron tariff for Upper Marne, 328. — Development of iron industry of Upper Marne after 1860, 330. — Its resources in 1912, 332. — Duties in tariff of 1860 on iron, 333. — French imports of iron 1827–75, 334. — Chevalier-Cobden Treaty of 1860 was not chief cause of reorganization of French iron industry, 335. — Objects Chevalier hoped to achieve through this treaty, 337. — His success, 337.

John Bates Clark: Earlier and Later Phases of his Work

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1927 42(1), 39
Journal Article John Bates Clark: Earlier and Later Phases of His Work Paul T. Homan Paul T. Homan Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 42, Issue 1, November 1927, Pages 39–69, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885364 Published: 01 November 1927

The Gold-Exchange Standard

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1927 41(4), 644
Foreign exchange in relation to token coinage, 644. — Essence of gold-exchange standard, 645. — Its origin, 646. — The Lindsay Plan, 648. — Gold-exchange standard a failure in India, 650. — This standard in the Dutch East Indies, 651. — Operation of this standard in the Philippines, 654. — The Straits Settlements, 657. — The experience of Mexico, 658. — The validity of the principles, 660.

The Copper-Mining Industry in the United States, 1845-1925

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1927 41(2), 236
I. Introduction. — Historical summary, 236. — Technological summary, 239. — II. 1845–1875. — Early Lake Superior history, 242. — Other districts, 1845–1865, 246. — Discovery of Calumet and Hecla and its development, 248. — III. 1875–1895. — Events of the 1870's in Arizona and Montana, 252. — Butte, Anaconda, 254. — Struggle between the Far West and the Lake, 256. — The Secrétan syndicate, 257. — Technological advances, and their effects, 259. — Depressed prices but growing output in the 1890's, 262. — IV. 1895–1901. — Bingham, Utah, 265. — Anaconda and the Bigelow-Lewisohns, 267. — Michigan developments on the South Range, 270. — The Amalgamated Copper Company, 271. — New discoveries at Bisbee, Arizona, 273. — V. The decade before the War. — Utah Copper and Nevada Consolidated, 276. — Four Southwestern porphyries, 278. — Alaska; Kennecott and Mother Lode, 281. — Arizona; Jerome, Bisbee, and Ajo, 282. — VI. 1914–1925. — Effects of the War, 285. — Low post-war prices and sustained output, 286. — Shifts in production, 287. — The eight leading districts, 289.

The Monetary Theory of the Trade Cycle and Its Statistical Test Cycle and Its Statistical Test

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1927 41(3), 471
Experience revealed the trade cycle; deductive explanations followed and were invented to fit the statistical evidence, 471. — The trade cycle is above all a periodical fluctuation in manufacturing activity and in the price level, the two fluctuating together, 472. — Statistical records show the correspondence between the fluctuations of consumers' outlay, prices, and production, while theory has arrived at the generalization deductively, 475. — Monetary theory of the trade cycle suffices to account for periodicity of 7 to 11 years. The sequence of events, 477. — The theory depends upon the connection between currency in circulation and the gold supply; but since the War this condition has not been fulfilled, 478. — Tests of the capital-goods and money theories, 483. — Difficult to find statistical test of the psychological theory, 484.

The National Income of the Soviet Union

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1927 42(1), 70
I. Purpose and methods of the inquiry, 70. — II. Net Production in the Soviet Union, 74. — III. Net Production by industries: Comparison with the United States, 76. — IV. Russian income per head compared with that in other countries, 79. — V. Proportion of state and private industries in Russia, 83. — VI. Distribution of income between occupations in Russia and in the United States, 85. — VII. Distribution of income between individuals in Russia and in the United States, 88.

The Evolution of Paper Money in England

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1927 41(3), 361
Introductory, 361. — The bill obligatory, 363. — The Privy Seal demand note, 364. — The debenture, 366. — The payment order, 369. — The repayment order, or "order of loan, " 370. — The fiduciary order, or "order of the Exchequer, " 370. — The tally, 371. — Post-Restoration innovations, 372. — The circulation of fiduciary orders, 373. — The "Stop" of the Exchequer, 373. — A general classification of Carolean paper orders, 374. — Specimen copies of Carolean repayment, and fiduciary orders, 376. — Important characteristics of these orders, 379. The goldsmith banker's "running cash" note, 379. — The earliest metropolitan engraved promissory notes, 379. — The earliest provincial engraved promissory notes, 380. — The bill of exchange and its development, 383. — The emergence of assignability, 383. — Malynes, Marius, and Scarlett on bills of exchange, 384. — The "outland" and the "inland" bill, 386. — The assignability of the promissory note, 386. — The earliest cheques, 389. — The demand note upon the Exchequer, 390. — The Auditor of the Receipt's note, 391. — The origin of Exchequer bills, 393. — The Bank of England's earliest paper money, 397. — The Bank's sealed bill, 397. — The Bank's promissory note, 399. — The Bank's "accomptable" note, 400. — The Bank's "lettered" note, 401. — The Bank's "specie" note, 401. — The Banker's annuity order, 402.

Sorokin on Social Mobility

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1927 42(1), 130
Journal Article Sorokin on Social Mobility Get access Carl S. Joslyn Carl S. Joslyn Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 42, Issue 1, November 1927, Pages 130–139, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885368 Published: 01 November 1927