Money and Growth: Selected Papers of Allyn Abbott Young

by Mehrling; Perry G.

• ISBN13: 9780415191555
• ISBN10: 0415191556
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-05-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume reprints the most significant contributions and lost works of Allyn Young, a central figure in the development of American economic thought, allowing full appreciation of his work.

Table of Contents

Editors' preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xxvii
PART I The nature and scope of economics	1	(62)
Economics as a field of research	3	(14)
Quarterly Journal of Economics (1927) 42, 1 (November): 1--25
English political economy	17	(12)
Economica (1928) 8, No. 22 (March): 1--15
National statistics in war and peace	29	(9)
American Statistical Association (1918) 16, No. 121 (March): 873--85
Economics and war	38	(11)
American Economic Review (1926) 16, 1 (March): 1--13
Increasing returns and economic progress	49	(14)
Economic Journal (1928) 38, No. 152 (December): 527--42
PART II Theory and practice	63	(84)
The social dividend
Outlines in Economics 2nd edn. (1908), New York: Macmillan. Appendix to chapter XXV, ``Profits'': 448--56	65	(9)
Richard T. Ely
Thomas S. Adams
Max O. Lorenze
Allyn A. Young.
Socialism	74	(12)
Lecture notes, Washington University, St Louis, April 1912
Pigou's wealth and welfare	86	(11)
Quarterly Journal of Economics (1913) 27, 4 (August): 672--86
Public borrowing for road building	97	(13)
Cornell Civil Engineer (1915) 23, Nos 6--7 (March/April): 301--15
The economics of farm relief	110	(5)
The Independent (1926) New York: 117, No. 3972 (July 17): 64--6
Economics	115	(20)
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1928) London: The Encyclopaedia Britannica Company. 925--32
Capital	135	(8)
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1928) London: The Encyclopaedia Britannica Company. 793--7
Supply and demand	143	(4)
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1928) London: The Encyclopaedia Britannica Company. 579--80
PART III Commerce: The marketplace of the world	147	(114)
The creator of wealth	149	(4)
The Book of Popular Science (1924; revised 1929) New York: The Grolier Society. Group IX Ch. 1: 110--6
The rise of population in great countries	153	(2)
(Grolier Ch. 2: 254--5)
The three great powers	155	(6)
(Grolier Ch. 3: 397--403)
America's natural endowment	161	(13)
(Grolier Ch. 5: 677--89)
Our wealth in minerals	174	(3)
(Grolier Ch. 6: 817--27)
Our water and forest wealth	177	(4)
(Grolier Ch. 7: 951--60)
Our wealth in cereals	181	(8)
(Grolier Ch. 8: 1101--12)
The economic interdependence of nations	189	(7)
(Grolier Ch. 9: 1243--52)
The reign of king cotton	196	(4)
(Grolier Ch. 11: 1529--36)
Trade and the railroad	200	(3)
(Grolier Ch. 19: 2529--37)
Wealth and well-being	203	(5)
(Grolier Ch. 20: 2665--74)
The annual wealth product	208	(9)
(Grolier Ch. 21: 2793--800)
Our foreign trade	217	(3)
(Grolier Ch. 23: 3117--25)
The making of wealth	220	(11)
(Grolier Ch. 25: 3377--85)
The sources of wealth	231	(8)
(Grolier Ch. 26: 3505--13)
Labor and wealth	239	(5)
(Grolier Ch. 27: 3627--36)
Combination and monopoly	244	(8)
(Grolier Ch. 29: 3971--80)
The meaning of value	252	(9)
(Grolier Ch. 30: 4097--105)
Part IV Money and credit	261	(118)
Exams in money and banking	263	(2)
Harvard University, 1922
The mystery of money	265	(12)
(Grolier Ch. 31: 4231--40)
Monetary system of the U.S.	277	(16)
(Grolier Ch. 32: 4291--4303)
Mobilizing banking credits	293	(14)
(Grolier Ch. 33: 4437--46)
Dear and cheap money	307	(15)
(Grolier Ch. 34: 4705--15)
Insurance and speculation	322	(15)
(Grolier Ch. 35: 4861--71)
Money and prices	337	(15)
(Grolier Ch. 36: 5109--20)
An analysis of bank statistics for the United States	352	(10)
An Analysis of Bank Statistics for the United States (1928) Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Extracts from Chs I and II, pp. 1--32
Branch banking in the United States	362	(7)
``Introduction'' to Jean Steels, La Banque a Succursales dans le Systeme Bancaire des Etats-Units (1926) Ghent: A. Buyens, vii--xx
Downward price trend probable, due to hoarding of gold by central banks	369	(5)
The Annalist (1929) New York. Vol. 33: 96--7. January 18
The French franc	374	(5)
``Introduction'' to Eleanor Lansing Dulles, The French Franc, 1914--1928 (1929) New York: Macmillan. Pp. xi--xvi
PART V Growth and fluctuations	379	(47)
Industrial fluctuations	381	(10)
``Nicholas Kaldor's Notes on Allyn Young's LSE Lectures, 1927-29,'' Journal of Economic Studies (1990) 17, 3/4: 76--85
Particular expenses and supply curves	391	(8)
``Nicholas Kaldor's Notes on Allyn Young's LSE Lectures, 1927--29'' Journal of Economic Studies (1990) 17, 3/4: 41--8
Economic changes since the war	399	(12)
(Grolier Ch. 37: 5239--48)
Big business: how the economic system grows and evolves like a living organism	411	(10)
(Grolier Ch. 38: 5387--94)
Bibliography of Allyn Young's writings	421	(5)
Index	426