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Inventories and the Business Cycle /

This study falls into two parts. Part I contains a theoretical analysis of the relation of inventories and inventory fluctuations to the business cycle. It begins with a brief survey of the treatment of inventories in the literature of business cycles. Then a theoretical model of the economic system...

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Autor principal: Barber, Clarence L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Toronto] : University of Toronto Press, 1958.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Illustrations
  • Chapter One. The Economic Role of Inventories
  • Chapter Two. The Treatment of Inventories in Business Cycle Theory
  • Chapter Three. Inventory Fluctuations in a Simple Model of the Economic System
  • Chapter Four. A Second Model
  • Chapter Five. The Effects of Inventory Fluctuations on Different Commodities and Stages of Production
  • Chapter Six. The Relation of Price Changes to Cyclical Fluctuations in Inventories
  • Chapter Seven. Expenditure on Consumers' Services and Inventory Fluctuations
  • Chapter Eight. Investment Expenditures, the Government. The Savings Schedule, and Inventory Fluctuations
  • Chapter Nine. Summary and Conclusions
  • Chapter Ten. Inventory Fluctuations in Ten Manufacturing Industries, 1918 to 1950
  • Chapter Eleven. Inventory Fluctuations in the Canadian Economy
  • Chapter Twelve. Conclusion
  • Statistical Appendix
  • Notes
  • Index