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The Accelerator as a Generator of Steady Growth

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1949 63(2), 174
Introduction: The theory of the accelerator to date, 174. — How steady growth is generated, 176. — Influence of the investment period, 180. — Influence of the income period, 181. — A more general case, 182. — Qualifications, 186. — Price as a stabilizer, 188. — Appendix, 193.

The Secular Trend in Monetary Velocity

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1949 63(1), 68
Introduction: Change in monetary velocity as a measure of change in the demand for money, 68. — Types of money and their respective velocities, 69. — Velocity data pertinent to analysis of business fluctuations, 71. — Controversial issues regarding monetary velocity, 74. — The secular trend in circuit velocity of money, 75. — The trend in velocity and growth in time deposits, 81. — Seasonality of production and the rate of use of money, 84. — Factors in the declining trend in the rate of use of money, 86. — Interrelations between changes in the quantity and velocity of money, 90.

The Post-War Reorganization of the German Banking System

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1949 63(3), 322
I. Basic purposes, 322. — II. Attempts at quadripartite agreement, 325. — III. Reorganization in the U. S. Zone, 325. — IV. Reorganization in the French and British Zones, 328. — V. The new Central Bank in the Western Zones, 330. — VI. Reorganization in the Soviet Zone, 333. — VII. The situation in Berlin, 337. — VIII. Conclusion, 339.

Central Banking in the Light of Recent British and American Experience

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1949 63(2), 198
I. Introduction, 198. — II. Central bank control during the inter-war period, 198 — III. More recent problems: control of long-term interest rates in Britain and the United States, 201. — IV. Selective credit policy as a supplement to low and stable interest rates, 206. — V. This policy not a complete break with the past, 209. — VI.

The General Theory of Location and Space-Economy

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1949 63(4), 476
I. Introduction, 476. — II. Early contributions to general location theory: the evolutionary approach of Alfred Weber, 479. — III. Predöhl and the substitution principle in location analysis, 482. — IV. The contribution of Hans Weigmann, 489. — V. The Lösch model of a space-economy operating under conditions of monopolistic competition, 494. — VI. The inter relation of trade and location theories, 502. — VII. Conclusion, 505.

Psychological Production and Conservation

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1949 63(4), 577
Journal Article Psychological Production and Conservation Get access Arthur Peter Becker Arthur Peter Becker University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Extension Division Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 63, Issue 4, November 1949, Pages 577–583, https://doi.org/10.2307/1882142 Published: 01 November 1949

Engineering Production Functions

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1949 63(4), 507
The problem, 507. — I. The scope of engineering analysis, 508. — II. Use of engineering data in economic analysis, 510. — III. Production-function analysis of pipeline transportation, 514; the technological relations, 514; cost functions, 517; conditions of equilibrium, 519. — IV. The use of engineering production functions: results of the present study, 526; further applications, 529; conclusions, 531.

The Physiocrats' Concept of Economics

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1949 63(4), 532
Introduction, 532. — I. The nature and scope of physiocracy: a normative and mathematical science based on "natural law, " 534. — II. The theory of innate economic ideas, 538. — III. A mathematically exact science deduced from first principles, 540. — IV. Quesnay's own view of the new science, 544. — V. Quesnay's use of the inductive method and of mathematics, 549. — VI. The gulf between Quesnay and his disciples, 551.

Bilateral Monopoly and the Competitive Output

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1949 63(3), 371
I. Complications in the comparison, 371. — II. Bilateral monopoly solutions with no income effects, 372. — III. Comparisons with competitive output, 378. — IV. Some assumptions relaxed, 382. — V. Income effects allowed: indifference curves only, 383. — VI. Income effects allowed: indifference curves and production functions, 389. — VII. Conclusion, 391.