Journal Article Alfred Marshall's Role in Price Maintenance in Great Britain Get access E. T. Grether E. T. Grether University of California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 48, Issue 2, February 1934, Pages 348–352, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885613 Published: 01 February 1934
I. The legal basis of price maintenance in Great Britain, 620; government reports of 1920 and 1931, 622. — II. Movement toward group action, 623; general purpose of associations, 624; forms of organization, 625. — III. Methods of enforcing prices; collecting evidence, warning, etc., 625; the Stop List, 626; the problem of non-members, 626; relations with third parties who have purchased indirectly, 627. — IV. The relative effectiveness of price control; the problem of the coöperative societies, 628; the resistances within private enterprise; numbers of members of trade, 630; complexity of trade channels, 630; nature of product, 631; strength of opposing interests, 633. — V. Fundamental tendencies; rigidity and stability of price system, 635; emphasis on merchandising services, 639; growth in and limitation of, numbers of dealers, 639; the demand for intertrade coöperation, 640; effects upon types of dealers, 641. — VI. Application to the United States, 643.