I. Unexampled excess of exports during 1915–19, 1. — II. Theoretical analysis of international lending and borrowing under ordinary conditions, 2. — Peculiar conditions in United States during the war, 3. — Influx of gold and rise in prices, 5. — All the transactions in substance were within the United States, 6. — An overturn inevitable, 7. — III. New stage of international payments and trade to be expected, 8. — Tourist expenditures, 9. — Immigrants' remittances, 9. — Freight charges, 10. — Interest account, 11. — Capital account, 12. — The general outcome, 13. — IV. The probable course of prices and money incomes, theoretical analysis, 14. — Extraordinarily rapid overturn, 17. — Relation to world price level, 19. — Probable maintenance of gold standard and resumption of special payments, 20. — Conclusion, 20.

The three agencies that regulated prices, 205. — Differences in their methods, 206. — The Price-Fixing Committee, 209. — Commodities regulated by the committee, 209. — Ground for their selection; heavy government needs, 210. — Prices were fixed as maxima only, 214. — Gradual elaboration and extension, 214. — Cost of production as the basis, 216. — Marginal, or “bulk-line,” cost, and charts illustrating it, 218. — This basis of price-fixing justified by economic theory, 222. — Distinction between differences in cost based on physical causes and those based on human qualities, 222. — The real ground for stress on marginal cost was necessity of maintaining output, 228. — Special phases of some articles, lumber, cement, iron and steel, 229. — Proposals for an average or pooled price, 232. — Objections to this method, 233. — Conclusion, 238.

I. Popular misconceptions concerning foreign trade, 417. — The balance of trade, in general and between particular countries, 419. — Disturbances in trade balances due to the war, 422. — The effectiveness of industry the source and the test of advantage in foreign trade, 425. — II. Four dubious devices for promoting foreign trade: Export bounties, 427. — Reduced transportation rates for export business, 429. — Reduced prices of goods for export, 431. — Discriminating duties in foreign countries in favor of American goods, 435. — III. International relations and American trade policy, 442. — Conclusion, 443.

Journal Article A Rejoinder Get access F. W. Taussig F. W. Taussig United States Tariff Commission, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 32, Issue 4, August 1918, Pages 690–694, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883795 Published: 01 August 1918

I. History of the act in Congress, 1. — II. Taxes proposed but discarded: supplement to income tax of 1916, 5; customs duties and consumption taxes, 6. — III. New Taxes: on transportation and communication, 6; new excises, 7. — Probable incidence of these excises, 9. — IV. Increased rates on liquors and tobacco, 10. — V. Increase of postal rates, 14; of inheritance tax rates, 15. — VI. Income tax rates, 16. — Exemption limit lowered, 19. — Special tax on corporations, 19. — Corporate surpluses, 23. — Stoppage at the source and information at the source, 25. — VII. Excess Profits Tax, 27. — House bill followed previous legislation, of March, 1917, 27. — Plan based on pre-war profits in the Senate, 29. — Compromise emerges from Conference Committee, 32. — Definition of "Capital, " 33. — Application to "excess" incomes of individuals, 34.

Journal Article Exhaustion of the Soil and the Theory of Rent Get access F. W. Taussig F. W. Taussig Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 31, Issue 2, February 1917, Pages 345–348, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883915 Published: 01 February 1917

I. An assumed case of large foreign borrowing by a paper money country, 381. — Consequences on the rates of foreign exchange, 382. — A digression: present conditions in Germany and Europe abnormal, and little pertinent to this discussion, 384. — Effects under ordinary conditions on the prices of exported and imported goods, 386. — A transition stage; is there a bounty on exports? 388. — II. Ultimate effects, as they would be if both countries were on the gold basis, 391. — In what way, in such case, international lending may lead directly to increased exports of merchandise, 392. — But increased exports are usually the indirect consequence of gold movements, 394. — Resulting changes in relative wages and prices, 395. — No such mechanism, however, in case of depreciated paper, 396. — An analogous result, yet a different one, through the movement of goods, 397. — III. Difficulty of verifying this analysis through inductive inquiry, 400. — Partial verification of a confirmatory character not impossible, 402.

The question to be considered in the light of economic theory, 411. — The broad facts, 413. — Is women's labor parasitic ? 414. — Questionable figures, 416. — Dominant position of the home-dwellers, 418. — Numbers offering to work the important factor, 419. — Influence of conjunction with other labor, 422. — Will management become more efficient? 424. — Will the women become more efficient? 426. — How far lack of bargaining power explains the low wages, 428. — The fundamental cause is large numbers; connection with immigration, 432. — Results to be expected if a high minimum were prescribed for all, 433. — The drifting class, and prolongation of education, 435. — The self-dependent minority, 438. — Conclusion: an opportunist policy, 440.

Journal Article Lincoln and the Tariff: A Sequel Get access F. W. Taussig F. W. Taussig Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 29, Issue 2, February 1915, Pages 426–429, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884970 Published: 01 February 1915

Journal Article Abraham Lincoln on the Tariff: A Myth Get access F. W. Taussig F. W. Taussig Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 28, Issue 4, August 1914, Pages 814–820, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885656 Published: 01 August 1914