Economic essays in honor of Wesley Clair Mitchell
By: presented to him by his former students on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday.
Publisher: Columbia Univ. Press
Published: 1935
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 519
Subjects: Mitchell, Wesley Clair, -- 1874-1948; Index numbers (Economics); National Industrial Recovery Act, 1933; Business cycles; Economics
Table of contents: value: Recent efforts of the Federal Government in the field of low-rental housing, by Asher Achinstein.  Genesis and import of the collective-bargaining provisions of the Recovery Act, by Paul F. Brissenden.  Long cycles in residential construction, by Arthur F. Burns. Purchasing power of the masses and business depressions, by Paul H. Douglas.  Obstacles to the statistical approach in economics and the social sciences with special reference to England, by P. Sargant Florence. The Marxian right to the whole product, by Abram L. Harris.  Some reflections on retail prices, by Oswald W. Knauth.  Relation between capital goods and finished products in the business cycle, by Simon Kuznets.  Some basic problems in index-number theory, by Edward E. Lewis. Urban decentralization, by Robert J. McFall.  Some aspects of economic planning, by P.W. Martin.  On the changing structure of economic life, by Frederick C. Mills.  The rôle of the middle class in social development: Fascism, Populism, Communism, Socialism, by David J. Saposs.  On the current skepticism toward systematic economics, by Horace Taylor. Economic and social aspects of internal migrations: an exploratory study of selected Swedish communities, by Dorothy Swaine Thomas.  The problem of overcapacity, by Willard L. Thorp.  Plateaus of prosperity and plains of depression, by Clark Warburton.