The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 33Charles Franklin Dunbar, Frank William Taussig, Abbott Payson Usher, Alvin Harvey Hansen, William Leonard Crum, Edward Chamberlin, Arthur Eli Monroe Harvard University, 1919 - Economics Edited at Harvard University's Department of Economics, this journal covers all aspects of the field -- from the journal's traditional emphasis on microtheory, to both empirical and theoretical macroeconomics. |
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... profits tax , 51.- XXII . Summary and critical estimate of results , 59 . - THE act authorizing the President to establish agen- cies for the control of foods and fuels was approved August 10 , 1917. Under its provisions the Food Ad ...
... profits tax , 51.- XXII . Summary and critical estimate of results , 59 . - THE act authorizing the President to establish agen- cies for the control of foods and fuels was approved August 10 , 1917. Under its provisions the Food Ad ...
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... profits were taken , in many cases almost reluctantly taken , both by millers and grain dealers . Predictions were freely made by responsible officials that still higher prices might be expected unless the mar- ket was controlled . The ...
... profits were taken , in many cases almost reluctantly taken , both by millers and grain dealers . Predictions were freely made by responsible officials that still higher prices might be expected unless the mar- ket was controlled . The ...
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... profit basis , provided the cost of manufacturing and marketing did not exceed seventy- five cents per barrel , while the amount of profit was to be limited to twenty - five cents per barrel ; the quantity of wheat that might be used in ...
... profit basis , provided the cost of manufacturing and marketing did not exceed seventy- five cents per barrel , while the amount of profit was to be limited to twenty - five cents per barrel ; the quantity of wheat that might be used in ...
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... profit margins in order to be insured against the risks of widely fluctuating prices during a period when practically all normal price stabilizing agencies had been disrupted by the effects of war . A consequence was that large masses ...
... profit margins in order to be insured against the risks of widely fluctuating prices during a period when practically all normal price stabilizing agencies had been disrupted by the effects of war . A consequence was that large masses ...
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... profits were required to be just , reasonable , non - dis- criminatory , and fair , under penalty of revocation of license . The only price - fixing authorized , aside from that of coal and coke , was the minimum guaranteed price to the ...
... profits were required to be just , reasonable , non - dis- criminatory , and fair , under penalty of revocation of license . The only price - fixing authorized , aside from that of coal and coke , was the minimum guaranteed price to the ...
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Page 328 - The right of workers to organize in trade unions and to bargain collectively, through chosen representatives, is recognized and affirmed. This right shall not be denied, abridged, or interfered with by the employers in any manner whatsoever.
Page 608 - For the twelve mnntha the net railroad revenue fell short of the amount required to meet the "standard return" by over 9202,000,000. The only district that earned its standard return was the Southern District, comprising the states east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio and Potomac. The...
Page 328 - In establishments where the union shop exists the same shall continue, and the union standards as to wages, hours of labor, and other conditions of employment shall be maintained.
Page 167 - Act shall include the movement, distribution, exchange, interchange, and return of cars used in the transportation of property by any carrier subject to the provisions of this Act.
Page 277 - The number of useful and productive labourers, it will hereafter appear, is every where in proportion to the quantity of capital stock which is employed in setting them to work, and to the particular way in which it is so employed.
Page 328 - In establishments where union and nonunion men and women now work together and the employer meets only with employees or representatives engaged in said establishments, the continuance of such conditions shall not be deemed a grievance. This declaration, however, is not intended in any manner to deny the right or discourage the practice of the formation of labor unions...
Page 332 - make a general investigation of the compensation of persons in the railroad service, the relation of railroad wages to wages in other industries, the conditions respecting wages in different parts of the country, the special emergency respecting wages which exists at this time owing to war relation between different classes of railroad labor.
Page 190 - States, namely, the official classification, which governs the class rates generally in the territory north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers and east of the Mississippi River...
Page 662 - ... a just standard of value would give the creditor a somewhat increased amount of goods and exact from the debtor a somewhat diminished amount of labor. " In ordinary experience it probably would not be far from the mark if our standard were of such a character as to divide the results of industrial progress about equally between the debtor and the creditor; but from the point of view of economic theory there is no assurance that this would be the case. All would depend on the course of human feeling...
Page 329 - ... shall be held, during the life of this award, in some convenient public building in the neighborhood of the plant, to be selected by the examiner of this board assigned to supervise the execution of this award, or, in case of his absence, by come impartial person, a resident of Springfield, Mass., to be selected by such examiner.