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Recent Studies on National Income*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

D. C. MacGregor*
Affiliation:
The University of Toronto
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1945

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This is a continuation of an article the first parts of which were published in the February, 1945, number of this Journal. The books reviewed in the article as a whole were there listed.

References

23 Logan, H. A. (ed. Innis, H. A.), Labour in Canadian-American Relations (Toronto, 1937).Google Scholar See especially the summary in chap. x.

24 The Bank of Nova Scotia, Monthly Review, 07, 1938.Google Scholar The estimated net production of all the primary or staple industries taken together was less than Mr. Clark's $784 million in each of the four years 1931-4 (ibid., Nov., 1935, May 1937). Improved estimates have appeared since. See MacGregor, D. C., Rutherford, J. B. et at. in Appendix 4 to Report of the Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations (Ottawa, 1939)Google Scholar and an extension of the same methods through 1943, with some revisions, in Quarterly Bulletin of Agricultural Statistics, 04-June, 1944 (Ottawa, Dominion Bureau of Statistics).Google Scholar

25 MacGregor, D. C., “The Provincial Incidence of the Canadian Tariff” (Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, 08, 1935, pp. 384–95).CrossRefGoogle Scholar See also Logan, Labour in Canadian-American Relations.

26 A detailed discussion of chapters III and IV appears in Mr.Rothbarth's, review in the Economic Journal, 04, 1943.Google Scholar

27 MacGregor, D. C., Rutherford, J. B., Britnell, G. E., and Deutsch, J. J., National Income: A Study Prepared for the Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations, Appendix 4 (Ottawa, 1939).Google Scholar

28 Sutcliffe, J. T., The National Dividend (Melbourne, 1936)Google Scholar; Stamp, J. C. in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 1934, pp. 452–5Google Scholar; Kuznets, Simon, “National Income” (Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences).Google Scholar

29 Cf. Mr.Clark's, reference to an estimate by Smee in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 1847, not noted in Bowley.Google Scholar

30 London, 1800.

31 Quoted in Rees's, Encyclopaedia (London, 1819), vol. XXVIII, article on political economy, pp. 9, 10, 1418 of the article.Google Scholar

32 In the allied field of national wealth, Professor Bowley's bibliography lists two papers by Fahleck, P. J. in the Bulletin de l'Institute Internationale de Statistique (Vienna), in 1892 and 1913 (vol. XX, part II).Google Scholar

33 The principal ad hoc work still appears to be the late SirMoney's, Leo Chiozza The Nation's Wealth (London, 1914).Google Scholar

34 For these three years special surveys of production costs were made, the unusually comprehensive results of which are presented in part II, Appendix D, pp. 310-35.

35 D. C. MacGregor, “Manufacturers' Expenses, Net Production and Rigid Costs in Canada,” in a forthcoming number of the Review of Economic Statistics. For mining, a number of special surveys have been made by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Mining and Metallurgical Branch, Ottawa, Canada.

36 On this, see the reviewer's occasional comments in London and Cambridge Economic Service, Supplement to Monthly Bulletin, Report on Current Economic Conditions, February issues, 1935 to 1938 inclusive, reprinted as Memoranda of the Royal Economic Society, nos. 51, 57, 64, 70; see also the Bank of Nova Scotia's Monthly Review, May, 1937, July, 1938, and September, 1940.

37 Economic Record, June, 1939.

38 A reconciliation of the two versions is given by Dacey, W. Manning in the Economic Journal, 06-Sept., 1944, pp. 178–9.Google Scholar

39 The same conceptual difficulties arise as in the case of Mr. Barger's work discussed above.

40 Cf. Survey of Current Business, Feb., 1945.

41 Ibid., compare June, 1941, p. 15 with Feb., 1942, p. 12.

42 Ibid., April and Oct., 1942; April, June, and Oct., 1944; Jan., 1945.

43 Ibid., July, Aug., Sept., Oct., 1943; April and May, 1944. Earlier revisions of the original samples appeared in April, 1938, and April, 1939.