Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol. 46 No. 1 1931
Velocity Concepts and Prices
Abstract
I. Introduction. Three concepts of velocity defined. — Various senses in which the term price level is used, 36. — II. Turnover of Media. Use of the turnover concept by Irving Fisher, J. M. Keynes, and R. G. Hawtrey, 37. — The neutralization of changes in turnover of media by changes in turnover of commodities, services, and securities, 44. — Support for this a priori contention found in the statistical studies of Carl Snyder, 48. — III. The Balance Concept of Velocity. Use of the concept by Irving Fisher, J. M. Keynes, and R. G. Hawtrey, 52. — Objections to the use of the concept, 55. — IV. The Expenditure Ratio. The relative merits of the expenditure ratio concept and the balance concept, 59. — The probability of the practical occurrence of changes in the expenditure ratio, 61. — Antithetical movements of consumers' and the business expenditure ratio, 63. — Exact neutralization of changes in expenditure ratios by changes in the other factors of the equation possible but improbable, 65.
- DOI
- 10.2307/1883921
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 34
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