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Income Creation by Means of Income Taxation

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1944 58(2), 265
I. Conditions under which taxation is income creating, 265. — Influence of expenditures, 268. — II. Under-employment equilibrium with consumption 100 per cent of income, 269. — III. Under-employment equilibrium with net investment and the average propensity to consume less than 100 per cent, 275. — IV. Full employment and a sudden closing of investment outlets, 280. — V. Application of the foregoing analysis in a practical program, 285. — Effectiveness of the income tax as an instrument of policy, 286.

Income-Generating Effects of a Balanced Budget

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1944 59(1), 78
Scope of the paper: effects of a non-progressive balanced increase in the budget, 78. — The mechanics, 79. — Qualifications: character of government output, 82; competition with private enterprise, 83; effect upon the propensity to consume, 83; further effects of taxation, 85. — Comparison of income-generating measures, 88

German Foreign Trade and Industry After the First World War

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1944 58(4), 615
Alleged effects of the Versailles settlements, 615. — I. The export trade: totals, 616; relation to world trade, 619; comparison with prewar figures, 620; relation to home sales, 621; composition, 622; distribution, 625. — II. The import trade: totals, 627; luxuries, 629; raw materials, 631; agricultural products, 631. — III. Industry: output, 633; unemployment, 634. — IV. National income, 635. — V. Conclusions, 636.

Hicks on Perfect Substitutes

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1944 59(1), 134
Journal Article Hicks on Perfect Substitutes 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 1, November 1944, Pages 134–140, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883261 Published: 01 November 1944

Strikes and Lock-Outs of Great Britain

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1944 59(1), 92
Introduction: scope of the paper, 92. — Number of disputes, 94. — Attitude of trade unions, 94. — Compulsory arbitration, 96. — Magnitude of disputes, 98. — Duration of disputes, 98. — Industries affected, 99. — Causes of disputes, 102. — Results of disputes, 104. — Conclusion, 106

Reserve Requirements and the Integration of Credit Policies

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1944 58(4), 553
I. Origin of the provision for changing reserve requirements of member banks, 553. — II. Nature of the provision as an instrument of credit control, 554. — III. History of its use, 556. — IV. Criticisms: ladk of precision, 558; discrimination, 560; inflexibility, 563. —- V. Relation to Federal Reserve finances, 564. — Security markets, 567. — VI. Effect upon future control of credit, 568. — VII. General conclusion, 570.

Recent Publications

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1944 58(4), 651-653
Recent Publications Get access The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 58, Issue 4, August 1944, Pages 651–653, https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/58.4.651 Published: 01 August 1944

Proportional Income Taxation and Risk-Taking

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1944 58(3), 388
I. Summary and conclusions, 388. — Loss offset provisions, 391. — II. The rationale of investment behavior: yield and risk defined, 393; yield and risk of an asset combination, 398; investor's indifference map and investment equilibrium, 402. — III. Taxation without loss offset: effects of the tax on yield and risk, tax sensitiveness, 403; adjustment of asset combination held, 405. popular versions of the argument, 408. — IV. Taxation with full loss offset: effects on yield and risk, 409; total risk and private risk distinguished, 410; adjustment of asset combination held, 411; total risk increased as result of tax, 412. — V. The general case, taxation with variable loss offset: effects of varying tax rate and varying loss offset, 415; adjustment of asset combination to changes in tax rate, with given loss offset, 418; adjustment to changes in loss offset, with given tax rate, 419. — VI. Qualifications, 421.

Output, Employment, Consumption, and Investment

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1944 58(2), 290
I. The problem: quantitative relationship between the primary demand for particular products and total output and employment, 290. — II. Technological relations assumed, 294. — The resulting equations, 296. — Computing employment, 297. — The concept of final demand, 298. — III. Computation from American data for 1939, 299. — IV. Applicability of these results to data for 1929, 304. — Explanation of discrepancies, 308. — V. Relationship between final purchases of particular commodities and total employment, 311. — Appendix, 313.

Pareto on Population, I

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1944 58(4), 571
I. Economic movements and population movements: personal capital, 572; emigration and migration, 576; non-economic factors, 577; the time factor, 578; primitive cultures and the ancient world, 579. — II. Wealth per capita and population: time and space, 582; secular increase, 583; class rates of mortality and natality, 583; social and political institutions, 583. — III. Determinants of population growth: the genesic forces, 585; the non-genesic forces, 587; residues, 592. — IV. Malthus' theories, 593. — V. Demographic trends: long-run influences, 598; the future, 600.