The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 9Charles Franklin Dunbar, Frank William Taussig, Abbott Payson Usher, Alvin Harvey Hansen, William Leonard Crum, Edward Chamberlin, Arthur Eli Monroe Harvard University, 1895 - 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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... fact that laborers themselves are consumers . A rise in some wages may fall partly on other wages , and so may be nugatory for laborers as a class . But it may fall in good part on the incomes of employers or lenders or rent receivers ...
... fact that laborers themselves are consumers . A rise in some wages may fall partly on other wages , and so may be nugatory for laborers as a class . But it may fall in good part on the incomes of employers or lenders or rent receivers ...
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... fact that machines are made by labor , and that a demand for machine - made goods affects , not the total demand for labor , but the direction of demand towards ( say ) laborers who make and tend shoe machinery rather than towards old ...
... fact that machines are made by labor , and that a demand for machine - made goods affects , not the total demand for labor , but the direction of demand towards ( say ) laborers who make and tend shoe machinery rather than towards old ...
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... fact that the limit of exemption is set so high as $ 4,000 will be a standing demonstration that the measure was shaped to meet some supposed social or reformatory end , possibly with some sectional bearing , but , at any rate , not as ...
... fact that the limit of exemption is set so high as $ 4,000 will be a standing demonstration that the measure was shaped to meet some supposed social or reformatory end , possibly with some sectional bearing , but , at any rate , not as ...
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... fact that such a method could only give us an approximation to equality . It would , however , give us in all probability as close an ap- proximation as the present condition of our part of the world will allow , which is , in fact ...
... fact that such a method could only give us an approximation to equality . It would , however , give us in all probability as close an ap- proximation as the present condition of our part of the world will allow , which is , in fact ...
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... fact that , while the act of 1894 professes to establish an exemption of $ 4,000 , nevertheless persons whose incomes are within that line are to be sub- ject to an income tax on so much income as they may derive from dividends , The ...
... fact that , while the act of 1894 professes to establish an exemption of $ 4,000 , nevertheless persons whose incomes are within that line are to be sub- ject to an income tax on so much income as they may derive from dividends , The ...
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Page 292 - The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
Page 324 - This power to regulate is not a power to destroy, and limitation is not the equivalent of confiscation. Under pretense of regulating fares and freights, the state cannot require a railroad corporation to carry persons or property without reward : neither can it do that which in law amounts to a taking of private property for public use without Just compensation, or without due process of law.
Page 322 - Amendment, broad and comprehensive as it is, nor any other amendment was designed to interfere with the power of the State, sometimes termed its ' police power,' to prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education and good order of the people, and to legislate so as to increase the industries of the State, develop its resources and add to its wealth and prosperity.
Page 322 - We choose rather to plant ourselves on what we consider impregnable positions. They are these: that a State has the same undeniable and unlimited jurisdiction over all persons and things, within its territorial limits, as any foreign nation, where that jurisdiction is not surrendered or restrained by the Constitution of the United States. That, by virtue of this, it is not only the right, but the bounden and solemn duty of a State...
Page 36 - States, whether residing at home or abroad, and every person residing therein, whether said gains, profits, or income be derived from any kind of property, rents, interest, dividends, or salaries, or from any profession, trade, employment, or vocation carried on in the United States or elsewhere, or from any other source whatever...
Page 311 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence, and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Page 198 - ... the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction...
Page 233 - ... the amount or source of income, profits, losses, expenditures, or any particular thereof, set forth or disclosed in any income return, or to permit any income return or copy thereof or any book containing any abstract or particulars thereof to be seen or examined by any person...
Page 229 - ... to show cause why the amount of the return should not be increased, and upon proof of the amount understated may increase the same accordingly.
Page 233 - return or copy thereof or any book containing any abstract or particulars thereof to be seen or examined by any person except as provided by law...