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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 26
Page 15
... direct employers of labor may find themselves able to pay out . The same difficulty in Professor Brentano's reasoning appears again when he refers , as others have done , to the possible use of credit as a means of swelling the sources ...
... direct employers of labor may find themselves able to pay out . The same difficulty in Professor Brentano's reasoning appears again when he refers , as others have done , to the possible use of credit as a means of swelling the sources ...
Page 28
... direct resort to the actual source of all taxation has much to recommend it in this country . The most striking defect in the financial system of the United States is the want of some easy adjustment of the receipts of the government ...
... direct resort to the actual source of all taxation has much to recommend it in this country . The most striking defect in the financial system of the United States is the want of some easy adjustment of the receipts of the government ...
Page 33
... direct line of property , real or personal . Except as a first step , to be followed in the future by some more serious legislation , this tax will probably have no appreciable effect upon the great fortunes . On the successors to small ...
... direct line of property , real or personal . Except as a first step , to be followed in the future by some more serious legislation , this tax will probably have no appreciable effect upon the great fortunes . On the successors to small ...
Page 56
... direct loans , but only assists the other Landschafts , or associations , to obtain funds . Its bonds are based on loans made by eight of these other associations . There is paid every year to the Central Landschaft an amortization ...
... direct loans , but only assists the other Landschafts , or associations , to obtain funds . Its bonds are based on loans made by eight of these other associations . There is paid every year to the Central Landschaft an amortization ...
Page 125
... direct opposition to the facts in the matter and to scientific truth . It is very significant that Professor Clark finds him- self forced to make one concession whereby he really gainsays THE POSITIVE THEORY OF CAPITAL 125.
... direct opposition to the facts in the matter and to scientific truth . It is very significant that Professor Clark finds him- self forced to make one concession whereby he really gainsays THE POSITIVE THEORY OF CAPITAL 125.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acres Adam Smith administration amount arable assessed Berlin Bledington bonds borrowers capitalist cause cent collector commodities concrete capital consumers corporation cost credit associations cultivation dividends doctrine dollars Domesday Econ economic economists employers existence fact fund furlong German Heft Hermann Hypotheken Hypothekenbank important income tax increase industry intensive margin Journ Kingham Landschaft law of rent legislation less loans Lord Lauderdale marginal marks ment method mortgage banks mortgage loans natural wages no-rent land nomic Oddington paid payment period person Pfandbrief Political Economy present principle production Productivists Professor Clark profits Prussian question railway rate of interest reason rent result revenue Ricardo risk Roscher Sept social surplus tariff tax-payer taxation theory Thünen tion trade true capital United village W. J. ASHLEY wages-fund Walker whole workhouse writers YANTELL
Popular passages
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 225 - Provided, That no deduction shall be allowed for any amount paid out for new buildings, permanent improvements, or betterments, made to increase the value of any property or estate...
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 196 - ... the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction...
Page 231 - ... 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 227 - ... 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 231 - 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...