Knowledge that Transforms

I. The background, 518. — II. Population and the labor force, 523. — III. Industrial production — concepts and procedures, 532. — IV. Industrial production in the Federal Republic and in Soviet Germany, 537. — V. Conclusion, 543.

I. Introduction, 205. — II. Capital intensity: theoretical considerations, 207; production processes, 215; auxiliary processes, 220; other high-priority industries, 225; final comments, 227. — III. Impossibility of “tracing” an existing pattern, 228. — IV. Summation and conclusions, 232.

Introduction, 36 — I. Growth requirements, 36. — II. Growth tendencies, 39. — III. Relation between growth requirements and growth tendencies, 45. — IV. Monetary-fiscal policy and the growth rate, 47. — V. Some further complications and qualifications, 51. — VI. Concluding comments, 55.

I should like to dedicate this essay to the memory of Charles Rist. I. Introduction and basic contentions, 329. — II. Defectiveness of the usual statistics; deposits of joint-stock banks and private banks; the Economist's estimates; current accounts and fixed deposits, 332. — III. Growth of deposits in the long run and the short run, 345. — IV. Old and new explanations of the great depression (1873–1895), 348. — V. Gold, credit and prices in the United Kingdom, 354.

The problem of unemployment, 188. — Revival of household industries, 193. — Expansion of steel and engineering capacity, 196. — The need for public overhead facilities, 198. — Employment creation through capital construction, 200.

I. The Bowley-Edgeworth box diagram can be used to describe an exchange but not a production equilibrium, 426. — II. A modified box diagram that allows a complete and explicit treatment of the welfare implications of changes in production, 429. — III. Relation of modified box diagram to some recent work in welfare economics, 433. — IV. Application of modified box diagram to analysis of certain propositions in the theory of international trade, 439.

Introduction, 132. — I. Requirements for entry, 134. — II. Oligopolistic uncertainties and large-firm entry, 137. — III. Effects on market performance of entry by outside firms, 139. — IV. A parenthesis on mergers, 143. — V. Social effects: career opportunities, 145. — VI. Business size and “concentration of power,” 147. — VII. Summary and conclusions, 149.

Introduction, 448. — I. Alternative pricing policies, 449. — II. Actual pricing practices and possibilities of introducing an efficient scheme, 453. — III. Requirement of financial feasibility and efficient pricing possibilities, 459. — IV. Conclusion, 462.

I. Various criteria and their evaluation, 561; rate-of-turnover criterion, 561; social marginal productivity criterion, 562; reinvestment criterion, 564; an alternative, time series criterion, 568. — II. Application of these criteria to some models, 571; the first model, on the contrast between the criteria; the importance of labor cost, 571; the second model, on the foreign exchange consideration, 577; the third model, on the choice involving time, 582.

I. General conditions, 151. — II. The fluctuations, 155. — III. Some special cases, 159.