Knowledge that Transforms

Journal Article Barker's Public Utility Rates Get access Ralph E. Heilman Ralph E. Heilman Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 32, Issue 3, May 1918, Pages 538–543, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883517 Published: 01 May 1918

Journal Article Laughlin's Credit of the Nations: A Study of the European War Get access E. L. Bogart E. L. Bogart University of Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 33, Issue 1, November 1918, Pages 180–183, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885013 Published: 01 November 1918

Journal Article Kitson's Trade Fallacies; Kitson's A Fraudulent Standard Get access T. N. Carver T. N. Carver Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 32, Issue 2, February 1918, Pages 393–396, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885432 Published: 01 February 1918

Journal Article A Rejoinder Get access F. W. Taussig F. W. Taussig United States Tariff Commission, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 32, Issue 4, August 1918, Pages 690–694, https://doi.org/10.2307/1883795 Published: 01 August 1918

The relative movements of products and costs as related to crises; various views, especially Carver's positions, one of which was underwritten by Mitchell, 635. — Prices and wages, prices and consumers' goods, prices and margins, prices and titles of ownership, 638. — The widening margins of good times; material costs versus wage costs, 643. — The narrowing margins of bad times; materials versus labor, 645. — Remoteness as a distributive category, 646. — Varieties of raw materials and of appliances, 648. — Speculation as explanation for the statistics, 654. — Divergencies between dates of contracts and of quotations and between the unlisted manufacturers' prices and the listed wholesalers' prices as probably the main explanation, 660.

I. The Administration of the tax, 525. — II. The financial results, 528. — III. Comparison with the taxation of intangible property under the general property tax, 531.

Journal Article Organization of American Railroads under Government Control Get access Brice Clagett Brice Clagett Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 33, Issue 1, November 1918, Pages 188–195, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885015 Published: 01 November 1918

Stabilization of perishables aimed at; regulations to this end, 621. — Characteristics of the market for perishables, 623. — Fair prices determined at short intervals by agreement, 625. — Rejection of goods shipped, 628. — Salutary action of Food Administration, 629. — Methods of marketing, 631. — Conclusion, 634.

Fixing price to consumer of a commodity necessary for war, 72. — Necessitates regulation of distribution, 73. — Copper industry unique, 76. — A unified industry, 77. — Demand for American copper decreased at beginning of the war, later expanded, 79. — Copper became practically a "cornered" metal, 87. — Cooperative Committee on Copper appointed, 89. — Necessity for price-fixing becomes apparent, 92. — Sources of supply, 99. — Risks encountered in expanding production, 100. — Increasing cost due to war conditions, 103.

I. Tariff discriminations, 547. — Classes of discriminations, 548. — II. Discriminations and bargaining, 549. — Penalty duties, 549. — Bargaining systems, 551. — Most-favored-nation clause, 552. — III. Discriminations based on national policies, 555. — American experiences, 556. — British preference, 559. — Preference in non-self-governing colonies, 561. — IV. Conclusions, 562. — Possibilities of international treatment, 565.