Knowledge that Transforms

Journal Article Sombart's Die Drei Nationalökonomien Get access J. M. Clark J. M. Clark Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 45, Issue 3, May 1931, Pages 517–521, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883902 Published: 01 May 1931

Journal Article Florence's Statistical Method in Economics and Political Science 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 45, Issue 2, February 1931, Pages 347–351, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885478 Published: 01 February 1931

United States copper consumption increasing at a faster rate than production but not yet in excess of the latter, 142. — Apparent excess of consumption in 1930 due to decline in exports, 143. — Copper Exporters, Inc., organized in 1926, to regulate the foreign marketing of our copper, 145. — The Copper Institute, a trade association, formed in 1927, 146. — Prices rose to peak in April, 1929, were pegged at eighteen cents for a year, and fell below ten cents in October, 1930, 148. — Output restriction announced in November, 148. — Large potential new mine supply in next five years, 149. — Short-run outlook not bright, 151. — Long-run position sound, indicated by calculation of probable world demand in 1940 for primary copper, 152. — Conclusions as to future price, 154. — A tariff today would not help the industry, might in ten years, 155. — Real need is lower tariffs for United States and world, 156.

I. Complexity of the issues, 177. — II. The Colorado River Basin, 181; Interests of the Imperial Valley in the project, 181; Interests of Los Angeles and neighboring cities, 183. — III. Interests of the Upper-Basin States, 185; The Colorado River Compact, 188; Arizona's interests, 188. — IV. Cost estimates and other figures, 191. — V. Administrative aspects of the Boulder Dam project act, 192; Financial provisions of the act, 194. — VI. Contracts for the allocation of electrical power rights, 197; Comparison of costs of hydro-electric and steam-generated power, 200; Total financial cost to the Los Angeles area, 202. — VII. Fundamental questions. (1) Long-run economic expediency, 205; (2) Immediate economic expediency, 206; (3) Political expediency, 209; (4) The policy of federal enterprise in the power industry, 213; Conclusion, 216.

Journal Article Stock Dividends in Large and Small Companies Get access John Jewkes John Jewkes University of Manchester, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 45, Issue 2, February 1931, Pages 352–357, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885479 Published: 01 February 1931

Journal Article The New American Immigration Policy and the Labor Market Get access Niles Carpenter Niles Carpenter University of Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 45, Issue 4, August 1931, Pages 720–723, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883252 Published: 01 August 1931

I. Introduction, 371. — II. Origins of the Act, 373. — III. Nature of the System, 376. — Eligibility, 378. — Interpretation of eligibility provisions by the Board, 379. — Goodness versus eligibility, 381. — The problem of controlling the use of reserve bank credit, 383. — IV. The position of control, 386. — Open market operations, 387. — Control and the magnitude of member bank indebtedness, 393. — Rediscount rates, 394: — Rate structure in Great Britain and the United States and the significance of the buying rate, 396. — An ineffective discount policy, 399. — Direct methods, 399. — V. Conclusion, 406.

Early history of the industry in Europe, 589.— Growth in the United States since 1911; the American Viscose Company the leading producer, 590. — The technical processes, 592. — Steady improvement of rayon quality, 593.—Protection and its proximate results, 597.—Failures and successes, 600.— Advance in comparative effectiveness, 603.— Costs abroad and at home, 604.—Extraordinary profits, 608.—Domestic and foreign prices, 610.—Duopoly; international ramifications and combinations, 614.— Summary on tariff effects, 617.— The future, 619.

I. Introduction. Three concepts of velocity defined. — Various senses in which the term price level is used, 36. — II. Turnover of Media. Use of the turnover concept by Irving Fisher, J. M. Keynes, and R. G. Hawtrey, 37. — The neutralization of changes in turnover of media by changes in turnover of commodities, services, and securities, 44. — Support for this a priori contention found in the statistical studies of Carl Snyder, 48. — III. The Balance Concept of Velocity. Use of the concept by Irving Fisher, J. M. Keynes, and R. G. Hawtrey, 52. — Objections to the use of the concept, 55. — IV. The Expenditure Ratio. The relative merits of the expenditure ratio concept and the balance concept, 59. — The probability of the practical occurrence of changes in the expenditure ratio, 61. — Antithetical movements of consumers' and the business expenditure ratio, 63. — Exact neutralization of changes in expenditure ratios by changes in the other factors of the equation possible but improbable, 65.