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Consumption and Business Fluctuations: A Case Study of the Shoe, Leather, Hide Sequence
Ruth P. Mack
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Published Date
January 1956
Copyright
1956
ISBN
0-87014-090-6
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Series
: Studies in Business Cycles
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Table of Contents
Front matter, tables of content
Author(s):
Summary
Author(s):
(p. 1-8)
Chapter 1:
The Problem and the Method
Author(s):
(p. 9-11)
Chapter 2:
Work and Structure of the Shoe, Leather, Hide Industry
Author(s):
(p. 12-21)
Chapter 3:
Cycles in Output at Five Stages
Author(s):
(p. 22-31)
Chapter 4:
Methods of Extending Description and Understanding: The Subcycle
Author(s):
(p. 32-43)
Chapter 5:
Patterns in Consumer Purchases of Shoes
Author(s):
(p. 44-59)
Chapter 6:
Causes of Change in Consumer Shoe Buying
Author(s):
(p. 60-78)
Chapter 7:
Fluctuations Transmitted and Initiated by Shoe Distributors
Author(s):
(p. 79-94)
Chapter 8:
Retailers' Buying: General Analysis
Author(s):
(p. 95-112)
Chapter 9:
Retailers' Buying: The Market Prospect
Author(s):
(p. 113-127)
Chapter 10:
Patterns in Retailers' Buying: Summary of Character and Cause
Author(s):
(p. 128-134)
Chapter 11:
Leather Buying of Shoe Manufacturers: Patterns and Procedures
Author(s):
(p. 135-152)
Chapter 12:
Fluctuation in Leather Buying of Shoe Manufacturers: Hypothesis and Test
Author(s):
(p. 153-174)
Chapter 13:
Fluctuations in Tanners' Output and Hide Buying
Author(s):
(p. 175-201)
Chapter 14:
Hide Supplies and Their Arrival at Tanneries
Author(s):
(p. 202-216)
Chapter 15:
Hide Prices
Author(s):
(p. 217-233)
Chapter 16:
Cyclical and Subcyclical Fluctuations: Statistical Findings
Author(s):
(p. 234-239)
Chapter 17:
Cyclical and Subcyclical Fluctuation: Process
Author(s):
(p. 240-254)
Appendixes
Author(s):
(p. 255-286)
Index
Author(s):
(p. 287-298)
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