Journal Article The Coal Question Reconsidered: Effects of Economy and Substitution Get access H. W. Singer H. W. Singer Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 8, Issue 3, June 1941, Pages 166–177, https://doi.org/10.2307/2967600 Published: 01 June 1941

A Supplementary Bibliography on Monopolistic Competition Get access Edward H. Chamberlin Edward H. Chamberlin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 56, Issue 1_Part_1, November 1941, Pages 160–169, https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/56.1_Part_1.160 Published: 01 November 1941

for this country in a period of 70 years of rapid urbanization. The statistical procedure is based on the following considerations: Expenditure on house room minus the running costs of providing it determine the composite value of a combination of building and land, called dwelling. In this combination, for the purpose of determining the shares of this composite value attributable to building and site respectively, building is treated as the factor which can be reproduced at a certain cost. Its value, therefore, cannot, except for a very short time, exceed its cost of reproduction.4 The site is the specific factor.5 Its value is equal to the value of the combination minus the value of the cost factor.6 Schedule A of income tax contains figures on

Forty-four states in the U.S. and territories and the District of Columbia have adopted as their written examination for candidates for the certified public accountant certificate the standard examination prepared by the American Institute of Accountants. The committee on enrollment and disbarment of the Treasury Department has recently adopted the Institute's problems in accounting theory and practice as a part of its examinations for candidates for a treasury card who are not members of the Bar nor certified public accountants. The responsibility for producing the standard examination rests with the Institute's board of examiners. The Institute's board believes that the certified public accountant certificate should signify that its holder is qualified to practise public accounting and has passed an examination that tests his practical ability as well as his theoretical knowledge. Members of a number of state boards have suggested that the standard of knowledge and ability properly expected of a candidate for the certified public accountant certificate should be that of a senior staff accountant, and the standard examination is intended to require ability of about that level.

Reviews the book "The Balance Sheet of the Future," by Roy A. Foulke.

Reviews the book "Expenses and Profits of Limited Price Variety Chains in 1940," by Elizabeth A. Burnham.

Reviews the book "Speed Methods of Statistics," by Donald E. Church.