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pt.I. Control of public-service corporations: The possibilities and limitations of municipal control. [By] L. S. Rowe.--Financial control: Capitalization, methods of accounting and taxation. [By] B. S. Coler.--Difficulties of control as illustrated in the history of gas companies. [By] J. H. Gray.--Regulation of cost and quality of service as illustrated by street railway companies. [By] F. W. Speirs.--pt.II. Influence of corporations on political life. [By] W. Lindsay.--pt.III. Combination of capital as a factor in industrial progress: industrials as investments for small capital. [By] J. B. Dill.--The evolution of mercantile business. [By] J. Wanamaker.--The interest of labor in the economies of railroad consolidation. [By] W. H. Baldwin, jr.--pt.IV. The future of protection: The industrial ascendancy of the United States. [By] N. W. Aldrich.--The tariff policy of our new possessions. [By] R. P. Porter.--The next steps in tariff reform. [By] C. R. Miller.--Report of the academy committee on meetings. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"The growing interest in social psychology as an academic subject in the last twenty years has stimulated the demand for more and more texts in the field. Each new appearing text heretofore has meant, practically, an innovation, a projection of a novel point of view, a creation of a separate school of social psychological thought. We feel, therefore, that the time is only too ripe for a slight pause in the manufacture of new ideas in the field of social psychology and for an inventory to be taken of the most usable material in social psychological observation and research. We have found in the literature of the field and in our own research many valuable assets and have used them as capital for the present venture. More particularly, we have drawn on Cooley, Dewcy, Mead, Thomas, Watson, Kantor, Allport, Thurstone, Faris, Park, Koffka, Kohler, Stern, Piaget, McDougall, Bernard--to mention a few of the living representatives of social psychology, psychology, and sociology--for many of our ideas. At the risk of some overlapping, we have treated each chapter subject as a totality in all its significant ramifications. Consequently, we have been able to emphasize and to integrate certain fundamental points, which will be found to recur in slightly different context throughout the various chapters. The text has been planned to meet the requirements of a short or long course. By a graduated use of exercises and bibliographies, the volume can be made to cover a term, a semester, or a year. We have intended that the bibliographies and exercises should be used to build up the course and acquaint the student with as wide a vista as possible. The instructor should make free use of articles and case-materials for class discussion, in order to amplify points raised in the text and to escape the limitations of a purely textbook course"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

A criticism of W. H. Mallock's "A critical examination of socialism." ; Preface.--I. Introduction and definitions.--II. Production and distribution.--III. The natural debts of society.--IV. Capital.--V. Capital as a monopoly.--VI. Earnings.--VII. Ability and manual labour.--VIII. Minimum wages and working day.--IX. Interest and abstract justice.--X. The expediency of interest.--XI. Monopolies of power.--XII. The purchase of monopolies of power.--XIII. The position of the originator.--XIV. Inducements to surrender monopoly.--XV. Equality of opportunity.--XVI. Democracy.--XVII. A democratic constitution.--XVIII. The monopoly of the future.--XIX. Socialism for the capitalist.--XX. The way to socialism. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Contents: The foreign investment policy of the U.S., by H. T. Collings; America's present need; a strong foreign investment policy, by H. R. Rathbone; The practical side of America's new foreign investment policy, by F. W. Fort; Present tendencies in the investment of American capital in Europe, by L. E. Van Norman; Limitations upon the adoption of any foreign investment policy by the U.S., by Breckinridge Long; Foreign investment policies and their relation to international peace, by G. W. Edwards.

Our present discontents have evoked many earnest words on the subject of "social planning." We are told that "capital can be defended only by constructive programs based on the consideration of social responsibility;" that we are headed for "a frightful cataclysm" unless we adopt "a national plan that will control and guide the basic industries, govern the investment of capital, and keep purchasing power in step with production;" that if we are to avoid revolution, "we dare not sit indefinitely in contemplative inaction;" that "we require a leadership that will help us think less about the theories of individualism and more about the tragedies to individuals," inasmuch as "men cannot eat words … cannot wear words … cannot trust their old age to words." In brief, if we are to avoid something worse, we must take some thought for the morrow.

The Union Building at Pretoria is now nearing completion. When finished it will be in many respects the most unique building in the country, for in it will be accommodated the hulk of South African officialdom-the Ministers of the country and the advisers of the Ministers; the departmental heads and the technical experts ; the agricultural, the pastoral, the mining, the commercial, the financial, and the political specialists, as well as the hundreds of other officials upon whom the administration and the advancement of the Union so largely depend. The building is worthy of the purpose for which it is intended, and its formal opening will be an occasion of general interest and national importance. Nationally it will signalize a new era of administrative centralization for the better conceiving and diffusing of concerted harmonious policy ; socially it will be the function of the year. Who can be in Pretoria will be there then. Who cannot come will seek to know something of what happens, and something of the place. Pretoria will loom large in the public attention, and to many the reason will not be apparent, for it is, after all, a city with which the country at large is not as well acquainted as should be the case. People generally do not know Pretoria as intimately as it deserves to be known, as intimately as in their own interest they should know it. ; Digitised by the Department of Library Services in support of open access to information, University of Pretoria, 2022 ; http://explore.up.ac.za/record=b