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Savings in a State with a Stationary Population: Comment

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1948 62(4), 623
Journal Article Savings in a State with a Stationary Population: Comment Get access H. W. Arndt H. W. Arndt University of Sydney Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 62, Issue 4, August 1948, Pages 623–628, https://doi.org/10.2307/1881770 Published: 01 August 1948

The Economic and Political Implications of a Customs Union

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1948 62(3), 362
Meaning of the concept, 362. — Advantages of a customs union, 364. — Implications for public policy, 365. — Price policy, 366. — Internal monetary policy, 368. — Wages and labor legislation, 369. — Taxation policy, 369. — International trade, 370. — External monetary policy, 371. — Employment policy, 371. — Trusts and cartels, 372, — Nationalization and management of nationalized industries, 372. — Relations with colonies and other overseas territories, 374. — Method of realizing identity of policy, 376. — The prospects, 379.

The Union as a Monopoly

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1948 62(5), 671
Introduction, 671. — I. The Tactic of Union Monopoly, 674. — II. The Inadequacy of Limits on Union Monopoly, 679. — A. Competitive Checks through Unemployment, 680. — B. Price Increases as a Restraint on Union Monopoly, 689. — C. Employer Resistance as a Check on Union Monopoly, 691. — III. Non-wage Elements in Labor Costs, 693. — IV. Union Power and the Power of Enterprise Monopoly, 694. — V. Other Factors in Union Power, 695. — VI. Conclusion, 696.

John Law and John Keynes

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1948 62(3), 381
Wicksteed on the scope and method of political economy, 381. — Early theorizing about the influence of monetary conditions on the activity of trade, 383. — Characteristics of Keynes' thinking, 386. — Law's Money and Trade Considered, 388. — Adam Smith's misinterpretation, 389. — Origins of the Mississippi Scheme, 391. — Difficulty of controlling social developments, 392. — Parallel between Law and Keynes, 393. — Need for further study of monetary theory, 395.

The Concept of Transfers in National Income Estimates

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1948 62(3), 327
I. Importance of national income concepts, 327. — II. Definition of transfer income, 328. — Problem of the treatment of interest, 329; taxes, 330; other payments, 330. — Two ways of treating transfer incomes, 331. — Classification, 332. — III. Reasons for treating interest and dividends as transfers, 332. — Objections to this view, 337. — IV. Reasons for treating taxes as transfers, 344. — The special treatment of indirect taxes, 348. — V. Tabular presentation of suggested changes in the computation of national income aggregates, 357. — Conclusions, 360.

An Error in Ricardo's Exposition of His Theory of Rent

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1948 62(5), 792
Journal Article An Error in Ricardo's Exposition of his Theory of Rent Get access Harry G. Johnson Harry G. Johnson Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 62, Issue 5, November 1948, Pages 792–793, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883475 Published: 01 November 1948

The Inflation in China

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1948 62(4), 562
I. The Wartime Inflation (1937–45), 562. — II. The Postwar Economic Situation: budgetary deficits, 568; industrial and agricultural production, 570; the food situation, 571; other difficulties, 571. — III. Developments in 1947, 571. — IV. Summary and Conclusions, 574.

The Interdependence of Quality Variations, Selling Effort and Price

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1948 62(3), 418
I. The problem, 418. — The assumptions, 420. — II. Diagrammatic analysis, 420. — The marginal cost curve: selling-effort and quality criteria independent, 422; selling-effort and quality criteria not independent, 431. — Different ways of increasing sales, 432. — The concept "quality improvement, " 435. — III. Varying the price assumption, 435. — The "locus, " 437. — The optimum price, 437. — IV. The problem of the initial quality, 438.

Regional Multilateral Payments Arrangements

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1948 62(4), 500
The need for special arrangements, 500. — Feasibility of organizing systems of multilateral payments, 502. — Fundamental problems, 503. — Clearing mechanisms: pooling type, 506. — Clearing mechanisms: multilateral offset or circuit type, 510. — The settlement of net balances, 513. — Multilateral clearing and the ERP, 516.