 Wage Theory and TheoriesH. J. Davenport The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1919, vol. 33, issue 2, 256-297 Abstract: Labor-purchase theory of wages, 256. — A Crusoe or collective analysis, 257; inapplicable for competitive purposes, 258; but invoking the selective working of the iron law, 261. — Property as affecting iron law, 262. — Predation and survival, 263. — Minima of living and death rate, standard of living and birth rate, as bearing on wages, 264. — Both the minimum and the standard doctrine are cost doctrines for the supply of men who have no costs of production, 265. — Bearing of numbers on per capita product, 268. — Flexibility of standards of living, 270. — Population limited by increasing product, 271. — The causal nexus, 272. — Wage-fund theory, 274. — Labor-pain theory, 278. — Productivity theories, 280; in ethical implications, 280; in distributive precision, 282. — Surplus-value theory, 286. — Reconstruction, 288. — Production in competitive meaning, 288. — No outlook for higher wages at expense of employers, 288. — Possible lines of amelioration, 289. — Institutional conditions and competitive processes as affecting (1) the distribuend, (2) the distribution rations, 291. — Conclusion, 297. Date: 1919 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oup:qjecon:v:33:y:1919:i:2:p:256-297. Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article The Quarterly Journal of Economics is currently edited by Robert J. Barro, Lawrence F. Katz, Nathan Nunn, Andrei Shleifer and Stefanie Stantcheva More articles in The Quarterly Journal of Economics from President and Fellows of Harvard College |
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