Knowledge that Transforms

I. Introduction, 565. — II. Maximization of joint profit as a solution, 566. — III. The contract curve, as a solution, 569. — IV. The contract curve and its resemblance to what businessmen think they are doing, 573. — V. The contract curve and realistic conditions, 574. — VI. Extension of the contract curve to oligopoly, 575. — VII. Use of mark-up on prime costs, 576. — VIII. Extension of the contract curve to non-price competition, 580. — IX. Conclusion, 581. — Appendix, 582.

Journal Article A Synthetic Theory of Interest Get access Thomas Nixon Carver Thomas Nixon Carver 226 Palisades Avenue, Santa Monica, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 68, Issue 4, November 1954, Pages 649–651, https://doi.org/10.2307/1881883 Published: 01 November 1954

I. The weakness of existing theories, 83. — II. An alternative theoretical model, 85. — III. Synthesis and a comparison with the facts, 91.

Journal Article Marketing Structure and Economic Development: Comment Get access Allan G. B. Fisher Allan G. B. Fisher Washington, D. C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 68, Issue 1, February 1954, Pages 151–154, https://doi.org/10.2307/1881923 Published: 01 February 1954

I. Definition of rationality, 487. — II. Characteristics of irrationality, 490. — III. Examples of irrationality in economics, 493. — IV. Irrationality and mass psychology, 497. — V. The role of irrationality in political economy, 501.

I. Adam Smith and man's wants, 275. — II. Extent to which wants for food are satiated, 276. — III. Relation of the capacity of the human stomach to satiation of wants for food, 278. — IV. Variations in economic cost of various diets, 280. — V. Relation of wants for food to wants for other consumer goods, 281. — VI. Factors of importance in determining the population a country can feed, 283. — VII. Conclusion, 285.

I. Introduction, 1. — II. Accounting before World War I, 4; national income, 5; essentials of accounting, 5; accounting from the economist's standpoint, 6. — III. Accounting since World War I, 8; accounting for capital assets, 9; straight-line depreciation, 9; changing price levels and depreciation, 10; recent discussions of the subject, 12; other views, 15; inventoriable assets, 16.

I. Is and ought, 355. — II. Program and prognosis, 357. — III. Program determined by prognosis, 359. — IV. Prognosis determined by program, 360; programs as social data, 361; selection and relevance, 361; models and concepts: the index number problem, 362; inadequacy of the means-ends schema, 364; implications for welfare economics, 367; ideologies, 368. — V. Interdependence between program and prognosis, 369; prophecies: cure through prognosis, 369; dangerous thought: destruction through prognosis, 370; harmony through prognosis, 372; speculation and oligopoly, 374. — VI. The task of the social sciences, 374. — VII. Summary, 376.

I. Introduction, 159. — II. Agriculture, public finance, international finance, consumption, theory of the firm, population theory, economics of growth, 161. — III. Welfare economics, national economic planning, methodological developments, 168. — IV. Conclusion, 179.

Introduction, 181. — I. Autonomous Investment, 181. — II. The Domar Equation, 184. — III. The Kalecki Effect, 188.