Value Theories Applied to the Sugar Industry

Philip G. Wright

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1917, vol. 32, issue 1, 101-121

Abstract: Recent reports on the sugar industry. The industry both agricultural and manufacturing; may be used to test the theories of marginal cost, representative firm, large and small scale production, 101. — Analysis by cost curves showing cane (or beet) costs, factory costs, and total costs, 105. — Analysis by coefficients of dispersion, 108. — Analysis by Pearson's formula for correlation, 111. — Analysis by frequency histograms and probability curves, 116. — Conclusions, 120.

Date: 1917
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