The Distributive Relations of Indirect Goods

Abstract

The relative movements of products and costs as related to crises; various views, especially Carver's positions, one of which was underwritten by Mitchell, 635. — Prices and wages, prices and consumers' goods, prices and margins, prices and titles of ownership, 638. — The widening margins of good times; material costs versus wage costs, 643. — The narrowing margins of bad times; materials versus labor, 645. — Remoteness as a distributive category, 646. — Varieties of raw materials and of appliances, 648. — Speculation as explanation for the statistics, 654. — Divergencies between dates of contracts and of quotations and between the unlisted manufacturers' prices and the listed wholesalers' prices as probably the main explanation, 660.