The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volumen31Charles Franklin Dunbar, Frank William Taussig, Abbott Payson Usher, Alvin Harvey Hansen, William Leonard Crum, Edward Chamberlin, Arthur Eli Monroe Harvard University, 1917 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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Página 347 - He speaks also of the rent of coal mines, and of stone quarries, to which the same observation applies — that the compensation given for the mine or quarry is paid for the value of the coal or stone which can be removed from them, and has no connection with the original and indestructible powers of the land.
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Página 344 - In these cases, the government has had very little to do with the standardization. Two recent acts of congress, however, have brought the government definitely into this field as the fixer of standards of quality. These are the Cotton Futures Act and the Grain Standards Act. Both give the Secretary of Agriculture power to establish grades and to enforce their use in. the regular channels of trade. A number of states also have passed grading laws of various kinds. Four New England states have passed...