Knowledge that Transforms

I. The incidence of contributions from employers, 313.— Qualifications: unemployment benefits may modify competition for employment, 314; strengthening unionism introduces additional uncertainty, 315; the outcome affected by rigidity of money wage rates, 316.—Shifting forward to consumers, 316.— The assumption that employment is a function of labor costs, 317.— The incidence of a limited system of reserves, 318.— The possibility that there is no net cost, 319.— II. Employers' contributions as incentives to stabilize employment, 320.— The argument obscure and weak, 321.— The necessary conditions of additional financial incentives, 322.— Effects would be largely on casual employment, 324.— III. The form of the reserves: insurance or pooling vs. deposit or savings, 325.— Pooled reserves not true insurance, 326.— Contributions to pooled reserves akin to taxes, 330.— Pooled reserves a mixture of relief and insurance, 330, and are as unstable as industry itself, 332.— The ethics and economics of the deposit or savings basis, 333.— Conclusions, 335.

Journal Article The Wooden Money of Tenino Get access Howard H. Preston Howard H. Preston University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 47, Issue 2, February 1933, Pages 343–348, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883693 Published: 01 February 1933

The theory of industrial location, 254.— Preliminary deductions in the case of the shoe industry, 255.— History of the distribution of the industry. Period 1630–1760: non-localized hand work, 257.— Period 1760–1860: localization of the hand industry, relation of railroads to factors of transportation and labor cost, 259.— Period 1860–1900: effect of mechanization, shifts in the tanning industry, changes in financing; equalization of regional advantages, 264.— Period since 1900: rapid style changes, foreign markets, labor organization, 269.— Outlook for the future, 273.— The theory in the light of experience in the shoe industry, 274.

Introduction, 39. — I. A simplified case; basic relations and equations, 39.— II. "Circular velocity" and "velocity of circulation, " 43. — III. The value of working capital, 47. — IV. The required stock of money; determinants of its circular velocity, 58. — V. Producers' goods and "equilibrium"; pure services; government finance, 67.— VI. Summary; available statistics, 72.

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I. The Cassel method, 647.— Kitchin's estimate, 648.— II. The problem of the base years: cyclical complications, 649; wholesale vs. general prices, 653; international aspect, 654.— III. The problem of the "normal" gold supply, 655.— IV. The problem of the rate of increase in the demand for gold, 658.— The first sub-assumption, 659; the second, 660; the third, 660.— Bank currency: England, 665; France, 669; Germany, 671; United States, 675.— V. Conclusions, 677.

Journal Article Recent Social Trends Get access Karl W. Bigelow Karl W. Bigelow University of Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 48, Issue 1, November 1933, Pages 150–170, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884800 Published: 01 November 1933

Journal Article Two Notable Contributions to Economic History Get access Abbott Payson Usher Abbott Payson Usher Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 48, Issue 1, November 1933, Pages 171–180, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884801 Published: 01 November 1933

Journal Article The Literature of the Crisis Get access Myron W. Watkins Myron W. Watkins New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 47, Issue 3, May 1933, Pages 504–532, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883983 Published: 01 May 1933

Sources and nature of the data used. The extent of the ground covered, 3.— Numerical comparisons for U. S. (1925) and U. K. (1924), 6. — Arrangement of data for comparison, 7. — Relative importance of chief industrial groups in the two countries, 10.— Variations in net outputs (and in aggregate wages) in relation to numbers occupied, 14.— Some explanations suggested, 15.— Contrast between the U. S. averages and the U. K. 16.—Question whether the larger U. S. figures should be interpreted in terms of higher prices or of greater volume of output, illustrated from various trades, 17.—Differences appear to reflect mainly volume of output, 25.— Movements between the years 1907 and 1924 of the British inquiries considered in relation to U. S. data for 1909 and 1925, 26.— Extension of this comparison to 1930 (U. K.) and 1929 (U. S.), 33.— Differences in time of the inquiries sufficient to account for the major part of the changes in the measure of relative magnitude of output per head, 34.— Some concluding reflections, 37.