Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol. 27 No. 4 1913
Original Cost Versus Replacement Cost as a Basis for Rate Regulation
Abstract
Two principles: (1) cost-new, or replacement cost, (2) original cost, 616. — Tendency to adopt replacement cost alone, 617. — Original cost, neglected because thought difficult to ascertain, 618. — How it can be ascertained, 620. — How the principle of replacement cost is in practice departed from, 623. — Both figures should be before the rate-making tribunal, 624. — The problem of investment by later stock-purchasers, 626.
- DOI
- 10.2307/1883444
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 616
- Sources
- openalex crossref