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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Page 33
... actual marketings were apparently 56 , - 000,000 bushels behind the normal for the crop . The failure of Congress to pass the Food Bill , as the President had urged , in time to permit the controlling agencies of the Food Administration ...
... actual marketings were apparently 56 , - 000,000 bushels behind the normal for the crop . The failure of Congress to pass the Food Bill , as the President had urged , in time to permit the controlling agencies of the Food Administration ...
Page 35
... of wheat by sample ; all grades below No. 3 were bought on the basis of actual worth and not on the basis of fixed price differentials . XI The tendency for growers to hold back their wheat WHEAT AND FLOUR TRADE : 1917-18 35.
... of wheat by sample ; all grades below No. 3 were bought on the basis of actual worth and not on the basis of fixed price differentials . XI The tendency for growers to hold back their wheat WHEAT AND FLOUR TRADE : 1917-18 35.
Page 47
... actual field work or effective check on loose or dishonest prac- tices was attempted , however . The Milling Division took the view that it was not its business to police the industry and that to discipline millers or attempt any- thing ...
... actual field work or effective check on loose or dishonest prac- tices was attempted , however . The Milling Division took the view that it was not its business to police the industry and that to discipline millers or attempt any- thing ...
Page 64
... actual guaranty for the 1918-19 season at a point very much lower than what the farmers would have come to regard as normal . In these con- ditions there is no assignable limit to the amount of wheat which might have been planted in ...
... actual guaranty for the 1918-19 season at a point very much lower than what the farmers would have come to regard as normal . In these con- ditions there is no assignable limit to the amount of wheat which might have been planted in ...
Page 83
... actual de- posits of gold increased very largely its banking credit . The extensive purchases of copper were handled in such a manner as not to force a rapid market rise of price , but so as to restrain buying , and with very remarkable ...
... actual de- posits of gold increased very largely its banking credit . The extensive purchases of copper were handled in such a manner as not to force a rapid market rise of price , but so as to restrain buying , and with very remarkable ...
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Page 312 - 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 590 - 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 result in the South is attributed to the recent improvement in the physical condition of the southern roads and the large number of camps in that section, but principally to the fact that the years upon which the contract was based were years of light earnings.
Page 312 - 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 312 - In establishments where union and non-union 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 261 - 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 619 - The values and prices, therefore, to which our conclusions apply, are mercantile values and prices ; such prices as ğre quoted in price-currents ; prices in the wholesale markets, in which buying as well as selling is a matter of business ; in which the buyers take pains to know, and generally do know, the lowest price at which an article of a given quality can be obtained ; and in which, therefore, the axiom is true, that there cannot be for the same article, of the sume quality, two prices in...
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Page 598 - ... transportation systems, in such matters as spur tracks, railroad crossings, safety appliances, track connections, train service, the establishment, maintenance and sanitation of station facilities, the investigation of accidents, and all other matters of local service, safety and equipment. It will be the policy of the Director General to cause the orders of the state commissions in these matters to be carried out.
Page 316 - 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.