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Economic Implications of Aircraft

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1945 59(2), 145
I. Impact of transport technology upon the United States economy, 145. — II. Costs of air transport, 149. — The rôle of aircraft in the future transport web, 153. — Private aircraft, 156. — Cargo movement, 157. — III. Implications of the foregoing: urban-metropolitan patterns, 161; investment outlets, 163; trade channels and commercial centers, 164; capital exports, 166; government aid, 166. — Appendix: the case of Brazil, 168.

The Criterion of Maximum Profits in the Theory of Investment

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1945 60(1), 56
Three logical possibilities as to what an entrepreneur should maximize: the internal rate of return, total profits, rate of profit over cost, 56. — I. The use of these criteria in the literature on the theory of capital and interest, 57. — II. The case of tree-growing: the internal rate of return, 63; total profits, 66; choice between them when a market rate of interest exists, 68; when no market rate exists, 70. — III. Total profits vs. rate of profit over cost, 71. — Where entrepreneur's funds are not limited, 75. — Financing by stock and by debts, 76.

Does the Consumer Benefit from Price Instability?

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1945 59(2), 287
Journal Article Does the Consumer Benefit from Price Instability? Get access L. D. Howell L. D. Howell Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Washington, D. C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 59, Issue 2, February 1945, Pages 287–295, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884829 Published: 01 February 1945

Some Fundamentals in Liquidity Theory

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1945 59(3), 405
Preliminary definitions, 405. — Liquidity and the monetary concept, 406. — Liquidity preference, 410. — Definition of money, 411. — The utility of money, 414. — Answers to objections, 414. — The specifications of monetary neutrality, 418. — Three model sequences, 420. — Conclusions for policy, 425.

Negro Employment in the Aircraft Industry

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1945 59(4), 597
Introduction: early opposition, 597. — Impediments to Negro employment: employer attitudes, 600; union attitudes, 605. — Methods of introducing Negro labor: Lockheed-Vega, 608; North American, 610; Wright Aeronautical, 611. — Labor utilization: over-all increase in Negro workers, 613; particular labor markets, 615. — The rôle of labor unions, 621. — Conclusion, 623.

The Statistical Production Function

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1945 59(4), 543
Introduction: experimental determination of a theoretical production function, 543. — Imperfect markets and disequilibrium situations, 546. — Delayed adjustments, 548. — Other reasons why actual observations will not show adjustments envisaged by static equilibrium theory, 548. — Functions based upon short-run adjustments, 549. — Transitions, 550. — Time-series and cross-section studies, 551. — Homogeneity, 552. — The data as measurements: industries vs. firms, 553; factors of production, 553; capital, 554; depreciation, 556; sampling, 560. — Conclusion, 562.

Consumption in Fixed Proportion

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1945 59(4), 635
Journal Article Consumption in Fixed Proportion Get access Edwin B. Wilson Edwin B. Wilson Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 59, Issue 4, August 1945, Pages 635–639, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883300 Published: 01 August 1945

Payments to Senior Corporation Executives

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1945 59(2), 170
Public hostility towards “excessive payments” ' to corporation executives, 170. — Reasons for this hostility, 171. — Sources of information, 171. — Definition of terms, 172. — Nature of the data available, 172. — Dollar payments by large companies, 173. — Distribution of aggregate payments, 175. — Relation to sales and earnings, 177. — Relation to functions, 177. — Payments by smaller companies, 179. — Relation to sales and earnings, 181. — Relation to functions, 181. — Summary of conclusions, 182.

The Relationship of Total Output to Man-Hour Output: Reply

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1945 59(4), 640
Journal Article The Relationship of Total Output to Man-Hour Output: Reply Get access Henry M. Oliver, Jr. Henry M. Oliver, Jr. Lt., USNR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 59, Issue 4, August 1945, Pages 640–641, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883301 Published: 01 August 1945

Trade-Union Government: A Formal Analysis

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1945 60(1), 78
Importance of studying the formal aspects of trade-union government, 78. — Scope of the paper, 80. — I. Structural elements: the industry within which the union operates, 80; administrative problems faced by the union, 89; competition of other unions, 93; legal directives, 96. — II. Initative elements: meaning of the concept, 98; illustrations, 99. — III. Power elements: meaning of the concept, 102; classification, 102; the Musicians' Union, 104; other cases, 106. — IV. Summary and conclusion: two basic characteristics revealed, 108; relative importance of different factors, 108; separation of legislative, executive and judicial authority, 109; conflicting interests, 109; union philosophy, 109; centralization, 110