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The Consumer Does Benefit From Feasible Price Stability

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1972 86(3), 476
The general overcompensated theorem, 476. — The Waugh time-symmetric case, 477. — Inapplicability of the Waugh theorem, 477. — The anti-Waugh theorem, 478. — Utility areas versus consumer surplus areas, 480. — Second-round discussion and the dual Waugh theorem, 483. — Third-round discussions: producer benefit from price instability? 487. — No perpetual motion machine of the third kind in economics, 488. — Conclusion, 493.

[Professor Samuelson on Free Enterprise and Economic Inefficiency: A Comment]: Reply

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1970 84(2), 341
Journal Article Professor Samuelson on Free Enterprise and Economic Inefficiency: Reply Get access Paul A. Samuelson Paul A. Samuelson Massachusetts Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 84, Issue 2, May 1970, Pages 341–345, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883021 Published: 01 May 1970

A Summing Up

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1966 80(4), 568
I. The simplest Austrian and more general models, 568. — II. Why reswitching can occur, 571. — III. Reswitching in a durable-machine model, 573. — IV. The well-behaved factor-price frontier, 574. — V. Unconventional relation of total product and interest, 576. — VI. Unconventional capital/output ratios, 577. — VII. Reverse capital deepening and denial of diminishing returns, 579. — VIII. Conclusion, 582.

D. H. Robertson (1890-1963)

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1963 77(4), 517
The style that is the man, 518. — Before the break, 519. — Life at the top, 520. — The ever after, 521. — Some Robertsonian contributions, 522. —Conclusion, 535.

A Modern Treatment of the Ricardian Economy: I. The Pricing of Goods and of Labor and Land Services

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1959 73(1), 1
Introduction, 1. — In the beginning, 3. — The expanding universe, 5. — Scarcity of land and positive rent, 7. — Residual rent to homogeneous land, 9. — A numerical example, 10. — The case of many goods and homogeneous land, 12. — The Leontief-Ricardo tableau, 15. — Non-substitutability even where substitutability is possible, 16. — Summary and Conclusion, 18. — Appendix: Theory of differential rent, 20.

A Modern Treatment of the Ricardian Economy:

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1959 73(2), 217
Back to the beginning, 217. — Time and interest, 219. — Failure of the labor theory, 220. — A simple corn economy, 222. — The special timeless case, 222. — The extreme Torrens-Ricardo Case, 223. — Land scarcity and falling interest, 225. — A long-run, constant floor for interest, 227. — The land theory restated, 228. — A final word, 230.

Social Indifference Curves

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1956 70(1), 1
I. Introduction: widespread use of community indifference curves, 1. — II. Attempts to justify the use of community indifference curves, 3. — III. Proof of the nonexistence of community indifference contours, 4. — IV. Nature of Scitovsky's community indifference contours, 6. — V. Problem of family preference: a parable, 8. — VI. Optimal ways of achieving income redistribution, 12. — VII. Regular properties of social indifference contours, 14. — VIII. Perfect competition and bliss, 19. — IX. Final summary, 21.

Professor Samuelson on Operationalism in Economic Theory: Comment

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1955 69(2), 310
Journal Article Professor Samuelson on Operationalism in Economic Theory: Comment Get access Paul A. Samuelson Paul A. Samuelson Massachusetts Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 69, Issue 2, May 1955, Pages 310–314, https://doi.org/10.2307/1882156 Published: 01 May 1955

Fiscal Policy and Income Determination

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1942 56(4), 575
Scope of the paper, 575. — Negative multipliers, 576. — Level and growth of income in relation to level and growth of investment, 577. — Reaction of expenditure on revenue, 581. — Financial implications of deficits, 587.— Tertiary effects upon private investment, 595. — Public works vs. other expenditures, 599. — The multiplier and velocity approaches, 601. — Conclusion, 605.

The Rate of Interest Under Ideal Conditions

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1939 53(2), 286
Implications of Ideal Conditions, 286. — Entrepreneurial behavior with a given rate of interest, 287. — Individual behavior with a given rate of interest, 290. — The identity between Saving and Investment, 292. — The determination of the rate of interest, 295. — Distinguishable components of the process of capital growth, 296. — The assumption of perfect certainty, 297.