... . New York Times . 1913a . “ Wilson Gets Facts on Wire Control .” October 3 . New York Times . 1913b . “ Government Accepts an Offer of Complete Separation .” December 20 . New York Times . 1913c . “ Federal Ownership Halts .” December 21 . New York Times . 1913d . “ Lewis...

...). The campaign for government ownership of wired communication presented questions about the propriety of federal enterprise in the United States—questions answered largely by lesson-drawing. AT&T transformed lesson-drawing from a straightforward search for relevant data from other countries into a form...

...~pmentWhat they had found was both an increase in the concentration of manufacturing assets and a decrease in the centralization of stock ownership. Berle and Means had compiled data on the assets, growth rates, and stock ownership for the two hun- dred largest manufacturing firms in the United...

.... As a result of this view, Tawney s use of data is sparse and unreflective. On both wealth and income he draws on conventional academic sources, and their standard way of quantifying inequality, to provide data of the form 64 per cent of the wealth was in 1920 21 in the hands of 1.6 per cent of the persons...

..., in addition, were higher in all classes of passage in England, and price discrimination was practiced consistently. Though the data revealed that price discrimination was also practiced in other rail systems, it is interesting that the degree of discrimination was greater in England...

... property is abolished” (1948, p. 177). More recently, Roberts continues in this vein (1971b, 1973) RationaVefficient calculation/coordination requires a (competitive) price and market system. (3) A competitive price/market system requires private ownership. Now, in reverse order: (3...

... historical data in their analysis of society. And, in so doing, they could not but examine the question of the emergence and evolution of institutions. However, whereas Smith’s conception of society and institutions is well documented (see Elsner 1989, Clark 1990, Song 1995),Turgot’s position...

..., although the data have been carefully adjusted by a number of researchers (Soltow 1968; Williamson 1980; Rubinstein 1986; and, most particularly, Lindert and Williamson 1983).9Without question, however, the decades preceding Mill’s evaluation of the British tax system were periods of massive...

... have envisioned, it is inconceivable that Schumpeter would have endorsed any social principle which had not withstood rigorous testing by his own scientific standards. Although we are precluded by a lack of data from testing his envi- sioned corporate economy against his economic theory...

... for it. Property becomes disembodied. For capitalists, mere pieces of paper replace real plant and equipment. Yet absentee ownership does not call forth a spirited defense of private property. Hence, the capitalist pro- cess paradoxically manages to produce an “atmosphere of almost universal hostility...

... student.  The IPCC went with the graduate student’s error rather than the actual data, which were readily available. As a result, much mischief, and some embarrassment, ensued. Inasmuch as we do not wish to be Ekelund Jr. and Hébert / Dupuit and the Railroads  99 that Dupuit...

..., therefore, interviewed people of different classes and recorded small-scale data and anecdotes that made his narrative persuasive and concrete. Following Ladejinsky's travels from his Russian youth to his involvement in the New Deal's Department of Agriculture and his work in Japan, China, Vietnam...

... for Corporate Control: The Scientific Evidence.” The Journal of Financial Economics 11 : 5 – 50 . Jensen Michael C. Meckling William . 1976 . “Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure.” Journal of Financial Economics 3 ( 4 ): 305 – 360...

..., as we shall see, he borrowed much of the actual data, analyses, and prognostication) -seemed to deal with basic issues such as setting of investment pri- orities, allocation of scarce capital, and evaluation of cost-cutting and market-creating potentials of new inrventions. They created huge...

... was just as able to guide economic calculation as were the money prices referred to by Mises. Lange went on to show how the solution to the general equilibrium allocation problem was independent of the ownership of the means of production. A planning board was just as, if not more than, capable...

... resources to their most profitable (and so most efficient) uses. Entail and primogeniture, in contrast, concentrated the ownership of land in the hands of men un- fitted by a lifetime of conspicuous consumption for that “exact atten- tion to small savings and small gains” which alone made...

... as an economy that efficiently allocates resources with respect to consumer wants with- out resorting to market exchange, is impossible. Efficient resource use requires knowledge of economic prices. Further, meaningful economic prices arise solely from trade in markets based on private ownership...

... and state ownership, which was accompa- nied by extensive slavery; and feudal or estate property, which was accom- panied by serfdom. Although they preceded their discussion with mention of the ‘mode of production’ their definition of this concept was less rig- orous and slightly different than...

... of the Walrasian competitive equilibrium in chap- ter 5 and the optimal property of the price system in chapter 6.4 In the former, Debreu dealt with a “special class of economies . . . , namely, the private ownership economies where consumers own the resources and control the producers” (1959, 74; emphasis...

... in the social- ist economy espoused in his 1962 book The Economy, Interests, Politics: Their Mutual Relationships in Socialism. Of similar importance was the intensive theoretical debate about ownership under socialism. It was sparked by the polemical article of estmír Ko u ník published in 1959 in Nová mysl...