Journal Article The Economics of the Iron and Steel Industry Get access M. M. Bober M. M. Bober Lawrence College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 52, Issue 1, November 1937, Pages 179–185, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884504 Published: 01 November 1937

Journal Article Spatial Price Discrimination Get access Edgar M. Hoover, Jr Edgar M. Hoover, Jr Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 4, Issue 3, June 1937, Pages 182–191, https://doi.org/10.2307/2967453 Published: 01 June 1937

Journal Article On the Definition of Monopoly Get access Paul M. Sweezy Paul M. Sweezy Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 51, Issue 2, February 1937, Pages 362–363, https://doi.org/10.2307/1882094 Published: 01 February 1937

I. Fluctuations in prices and interest rates, 113.— II. The reasonable worth of utility services, 114.— The fall in incomes, 115.— The fall in prices, 116.— Emergency rate orders, 117.— III. Valuation, 119. — Average prices, 119.— Corrective indices, 120.— IV. The rate of return, 122.— Industrial profits, 122.— The common stock basis for return, 124.— The standard rate of return, 125.— V. The rate making rule in depression, 127.

Introduction, 426. — Excess capacity of fixed factors, 427.—Excess capacity of all factors, 431. — Chamberlin's Analysis, 434. — Excess capacity and overinvestment, 440. — Conclusion, 443.

I. Comments on the four discussions in the previous issue of points in the General Theory, 209. — II. Certain definite points on which the writer diverges from previous theories, 212. — The theory of interest restated, 215. — Uncertainties and fluctuations of investment, 217. — III. Demand and Supply for output as a whole, 219. — The output of capital goods and of consumption, 221.

Some Aspects of the General Problem, 318. — Selection of Indicators, 320. — The Problem of Averaging, 327. — Conclusions, 333.

I. An impasse in analysis of the "rate base" derives from inadequate examination of the theoretical case for appraisal methods of construction, 299.— II. The economic desiderata of utility rates cannot be attained by administrative determination of service charges from a "rate base, " however constructed, 303.— III. The assumption that the "rate base" has a rate-determining function is therefore erroneous, 311.— IV. Recognition that the "rate base" is an earning base only is essential to intelligent appraisal of accounting methods of construction, and of the problems of public utility regulation, 314.

Introduction, 626. — Paris, 627. — The price-making forces, 630. — The surplus problem, 631. — Rome, 633. — The Fascist organization, 635. — Use of a base-rating plan, 637. — Berlin, 638. — Optional cartellization, 1930–34, 639. — Compulsory cartellization since 1933, 643. — Conclusion, 647.