Scale and the Origins of Structural Change

Structural change involves a broad set of trends: (i) sectoral reallocations, (ii) rich movements of productive activities between home and market, and (iii) an increase in the scale of productive units. After extending these facts, we develop a model to explain them within a unified framework. The crucial distinction between manufacturing, services, and home production is the scale of the productive unit. Scale technologies give rise to industrialization and the marketization of previously home produced activities. The rise of mass consumption leads to an expansion of manufacturing, but a reversal of the marketization process for service industries. Finally, the later growth in the scale of services leads to a decline in industry and a rise in services

Memorandum for the Assistant Secretary of War with attached correspondence

Memorandum for Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy from Colonel Cutler, about an article by Mr. McCloy titled, "We Do Not Want Another War." Attached is a letter to Mr. McCloy from William Chenery, Publisher, Collier's, explaining how the title of Mr. McCloy's article was changed without prior approval by Mr. McCloy

Industry and human welfare,

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Respiratory Kinematics in Speakers with Cerebellar Disease

The respiratory abilities of a group of 12 speech disordered subjects with cerebellar disease were assessed using both spirometric and kinematic techniques and compared to those of a group of 12 non-neurologically impaired controls matched for age and gender. Results of the spirometric assessment showed that although all of the cerebellar-diseased subjects had normal total lung capacities, almost half had vital capacities below normal limits. All except 1 of the cerebellar-diseased subjects exhibited irregularities in their chest wall movements while performing sustained vowel and syllable repetition tasks. Over half of the cerebellar-diseased subjects also displayed similar irregularities when reading and conversing. The same irregularities were not present in the chest wall movements exhibited by the control subjects suggesting that their presence was caused by the cerebellar disease. Results are discussed in terms of the effects of cerebellar disease on neuromuscular function