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Unlike scholars in many other disciplines, economists show little organized concern for preserving disciplinary archives. Consider the contrast between the community of mathematicians and the community of economists: the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America have embarked on a joint project to preserve official archives and to advise individuals and groups about the preservation of personal and organization-related papers: these two large organizations have recognized that mathematicians' "personal papers and the records of mathematical institutions and organizations are a source for an understanding of history." Generally, donors are asked to sign an agreement that gives property of the papers to the repository; rarely do repositories accept collections on loan or deposit. Before signing such an agreement, one should become familiar with the repository's policies on availability and publication of the papers. Most repositories are willing to attempt to address any concerns one may have, such as a desire to restrict part of the collection to protect the privacy of others.

The article presents information about various documents and reports related to demography. Bulletin 127 of the Bureau of the Census deals with Chinese and Japanese of the United States. A large part of this material has been previously published in the population volumes of the Thirteenth Census and in the bulletins for the several states. The principal new part, however, deals with agricultural statistics. The Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics of Australia has published Australian Life Table, 1901-1910. Tables are based upon the mortality experience of the commonwealth for ten years. Those relating to male lives are printed on white paper and those relating to, female lives on tinted Paper. The tables of elementary values, which form the mortality basis of the succeeding monetary tables, are a portion of the results of an extensive investigation of mortality experience of the commonwealth and its component states for the three periods, 1881-1890, 1891-1900, and 1901-1910. The monetary tables comprise, for each sex, for the rates of interest 3 per cent, 3.5 per cent, 4 per cent, 4.5 per cent, and 5 per cent, the usual commutation columns and the annual and continuous values for life annuities, single premiums, and annual premiums.

The article provides the history and publication process specifics employed by the editors of the "American Economic Review." The staff's teamwork relating to publication decisions, editing, and assignment of manuscripts is described. Conflict of interest rules are given. The number of manuscripts submitted and published between 1980 and 2006 is presented along with a breakdown of how the submissions were judged. Overall, the article tracks and evaluates the manuscripts received by the "American Economic Review."

Highlights documents and reports concerning money, prices, credit and banking as of March 1917. Topics of the reports; Agencies responsible for the publication of the documents.

The article presents documents, reports and legislation on industries and commerce. The hearings before the House Committee on Ways and Means on Tariff Readjustment-1929 have been printed in seventeen volumes, including all material presented between January 7 and April 18, 1929. The facts are arranged in a far more convenient form than is usual in documents of this nature. The subject matter of the testimony, together with the papers and other data submitted, are grouped together as far as practicable, and are arranged in the numerical order of the paragraphs of the Tariff Act of 1922. Each volume, which deals with a particular schedule, has its own index both of names and of commodity subjects `affected by the tariff. A large number of briefs are presented in addition to the oral testimony; and these furnish a wealth of material in regard to industrial conditions. The United States Tariff Commission has prepared a report on the Effects of the Cuban Reciprocity Treaty of 1902. This supplements the report on reciprocity and commercial treaties published by the Tariff Commission in 1919.

Most writers on mercantilism have neglected Portugal, and its colonial policy has attracted surprisingly little research. The destruction of a large mass of colonial papers in the Torte do Tombo Archives by the earthquake and ensuing fire on November 1, 1755, and the silence of the early chroniclers on such prosaic matters as trade and navigation have deterred many scholars interested in the Portuguese colonial system and seriously handicapped those who have persevered. Consequently, inadequate knowledge may explain the tendency to dismiss the Portuguese empire with the derogatory conclusions that it consisted only of a chain of forts and trading stations, developed no new institutions, set no important precedents, and made no significant contributions to colonial theory. Although precise information and many details are lacking, it is known that Portugal discovered the all-water route to the East Indies, established the first contacts with the natives, forged a colossal empire, exclusively controlled the East India trade for almost a century, solved a host of problems before any rival appeared on the scene, and smoothed the paths of Holland, England, and France to trade and empire in the East.

This article presents reports and documents on money and banking. Andrew MacFarland Davis has added a supplement to the origin of the national banking system. The proceedings of the international conference on bills of exchange, held at the Hague, Netherlands during June 28 to July 15, 1910, have been published as a government document. This includes the report of the American delegate, Charles A. Conant, a summary of the discussions at the several sessions and the papers submitted by the several delegations, several of which deal with the history of the law of exchange. In I 909 Massachusetts passed an act authorizing the establishment of credit unions, the first law enacted in the United States for this purpose. In order to encourage the formation of such associations the Bank Commissioner has issued a pamphlet Credit Unions in which there is a brief statement of the history and principles of foreign credit associations. Other recent publications of the National Monetary Commission are "The Bank of issue in Italy," by Tito Canovai, general secretary of the Bank of Italy, with an article by Professor Ferraris and Banking in Russia, Austro-Hungary, the Netherlands and Japan.

The article presents a list of documents, reports and legislation in various fields. With the conclusion of testimony before the examiner of the Federal Trade Commission last December, the case of the western consumers of steel against the "Pittsburgh Plus" approaches a decision. he papers read at Annual Conference of Assessors of Income and Auditors, January 24-26, 1923 has been published by the Wisconsin Tax Commission. The Department of Agriculture has prepared lists of Publications of the Office of Farm Management and Farm Economics, January 1902-July 1, 1922; Publications issued by the Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates and Publications issued by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics on Markets, Crops and Farm Management.

The article presents information about various documents and reports related to statistics. One of the most important improvements in census work expected from the permanent bureau was in the difficult field of occupation statistics. It is therefore peculiarly unfortunate that the report on occupation statistics has suffered heavily from the lack of funds, which handicapped the completion of the work as a whole. In order to expedite its publication and reduce the cost, the last machine count of the cards and the resulting tables have been omitted. It is to be hoped that special reports to cover the excluded subjects may soon appear. Changes in occupation procedure began in the preparation of the schedules and instructions to enumerators, with an effort to secure more definite and accurate returns, five questions on the subject of occupations being asked in place of the previous one. The only notable improvement in the data of the report as published, however, is the division of the usual question as to the person's occupation into two, one relating to the kind of work and the other to the nature of the industry.

The article presents information about various reports on prices. In the Proceedings of the Arizona Bankers Association, seventh annual session, November 11-12, 1910, there is an interesting paper on Foreign Exchange, by economist H. Choynski, of San Francisco, California, in which information may be found in regard to practices covering exchange dealings with the Orient. In 1909 Massachusetts passed an act authoring the establishment of credit unions, the first law enacted in the United States for this purpose. In order to encourage the formation of such associations the Bank Commissioner has issued a pamphlet Credit Unions in which there is a brief statement of the history and principles of foreign credit associations, a discussion of opportunities in Massachusetts, and instructions in regard to organization and management. Students of the history of banking in the United States will find a serviceable list, alphabetically arranged, of all the state banks incorporated in Rhode Island, with the dates of charter, in the Third Annual Report of the Bank Commissioner of Rhode Island.

The article reports on the increase in the wages of conductors and trainmen in the eastern railroads. The seven and a half per cent increase has raised some rumblings of discontent among the workers who demanded a twenty per cent increase. The experience of the U.S. government in the field of railway labor disputes has centered in the enactment and the application of five federal statutes. In 1898 the Erdman Act was passed. There was no provision in this law for the kind of investigation that was made of the strike of 1894. The two features of the law were the provision for mediation and conciliation by a government board and for voluntary arbitration of disputes which could not be settled by mediation. The law of 1913 was successful in large measure, although the Adamson law was enacted in 1916 to settle a controversy which could not be adjusted under the existing machinery. The Newlands law of 1913 superseded the law of 1898. No new principle was incorporated in this legislation. But this mediation board was to be composed of men appointed specifically for this purpose and not of ex officio federal officials as under the earlier law.

Highlights documents and reports concerning public finance as of March 1917. Topics of the reports; Agencies responsible for the publication of the documents.

Highlights documents and reports concerning labor as of March 1917. Topics of the reports; Agencies responsible for the publication of the documents.

Highlights documents and reports concerning corporations as of March 1917. Topics of the reports; Agencies responsible for the publication of the documents.

This article presents documents, reports, and legislation on various articles related to economics and commerce. "Export Trade Suggestions," is a bulletin of 140 pages in the Miscellaneous Series of the U.S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. It has been prepared chiefly for American manufacturers who, hitherto, have catered only to the domestic market, but now are undertaking to inform themselves regarding foreign trading methods. Some of the material is here published for the first time; but the careful readers of Commerce Reports will recognize a good deal of material as having been reprinted from various issues of the year 1915. The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce has done a valuable service, however, to the business interests of the U.S. in gathering together and systematizing numerous articles, submitted mainly by its special agents, commercial attaches, and American counsels, which deal with different aspects of the U.S. foreign trade. Some other reports presented deal with topics such as navigation laws and governemnt aid to merchant shipping and South American lumber markets.

Presents updates on public and private documents and legislation in the U.S. as of December 1915. Reprints received from the Year Book of the U.S. Department of Agriculture for 1914; Information on the "Manual of the Labor Laws," issued by the State Board of Labor and Industries of Massachusetts; Contributions to the subject of rural credit.

The article presents information about various documents and reports related to public finance. Two portions of the volume on Wealth, Debt and Taxation in preparation by the federal Census Bureau, similar to the volume on that subject for 1902, have been published. These are National and State Indebtedness and Funds and Investments, 1870-1918 and Taxation and Revenue Systems of State and Local Governments. The first mentioned contains a classified statement of the federal debt by years for the period of 1894 to 1918; a summary statement of the debts and funds of the individual states in 1912; a summary statement of the debts and funds of the states as a whole for the years 1870, 1880 and 1891-1913; a summary statement of the debt and funds of each state by years for 1880 and 1890-1913, accompanied by a descriptive text; and a statement for each state, for the period 1893 to 1913 (or 1913), giving by years the amount of each issue of bonds and the investments of each fund.

The article presents information about various documents and reports related to insurance. The workmen's compensation act of Ontario carries no important provision not before known in the world's practice. Yet, taken all in all, it is of much more than ordinary interest. It is radical; it is the seventeenth compensation law in the British Empire; and its field is near to people, in that Canadian province, which, in an industrial way, is the most, advanced and the most closely related to this country. As other British acts, it naturally shows many influences from earlier legislation of the mother country. In organic relation to the compensation law is a new employers' liability law. In fact, the two laws are but parts of the one act, part 1 covering compensation and the brief part 2 covering liability. Neither part applies to farm laborers or domestic or menial servants or their employers; and, apparently, neither applies to the general run of public employments, but only to private industry and such industry conducted by minor public bodies as may be brought under part 1.

The article presents information about various documents and reports related to labor. The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has published A Uniform Classification of Accounts for Electric Utilities, Effective January 1, 1915. The Boston City, Massachusetts, Planning Board has made a report on the Larger Aspects of Passenger Transportation in Metropolitan Boston. This treats of Boston's transportation problem from three points of view, physical, corporate, and financial. The Fourth Annual Report of the United States Bureau of Mines summarizes the statistics of accidents in this industry. During the past year more than 8500 men were killed and more than 100,000 injured in the mining and metallurgical industries of the country. One half of the fatalities and one quarter of the injuries are regarded as easily preventable. The director makes a plea for more extended investigations on the part of the federal government in order to prevent accidents. The First Annual Report of the Commission on Industrial Relations contains a brief analysis of the testimony, which has been taken by this commission, arranged under topical headings. Part of this evidence was secured at public hearings and a part through research investigation.

This article focuses on various documents, reports and legislation related to industries and commerce in the U.S. The Official Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Irrigation Congress, held at Chicago, from December 5 to 9, 1911, includes the addresses delivered at the convention. Among the topics discussed were "The Uses of the Great Lakes;" and "Principles Underlying Water Rights." The "Crop Reporter" for April, 1912, contains an article on High Prices and Crop Production in which from statistical data it is shown that the production of staple food products in the past few years has increased more rapidly than population. According to the "Report of the Governor of the District of Alaska for 1911," Alaska is not likely to develop until there is a more liberal policy in behalf of capitalized interests. The Library of Congress has added to its list of useful bibliographies a compilation of references on "Parcels Post." Books and articles in periodicals extending from 1859 to 1911 are listed. The Bureau of Corporations has issued Part II of The Steel Industry: Cost of Production, Preliminary Report. The report is based on the actual records of companies producing two thirds of the products from 1902-1906 as well as more restricted returns for later years.

This article presents information on documents and reports on labor. The third annual report of the Bureau of Statistic of Massachusetts on changes in rates of wage and hour of labor, 1909, and the tenth annual report on strikes and lockouts, 1909, arc of special interest as showing an effort to inform the reader in regard to the meaning of terms used in the statistical tables, and also in giving publicity as to the methods of deriving the tables. An indorsement of free public employment bureaus is given in the twenty-forth report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of Connecticut for the two year ending November 80, 1910. It is stated that these offices have passed the experimental stage and are recognized as a necessity, taking precedence over private agencies. There are now five in operation. This same report has a section devoted to tenement houses and publishes a directory of labor organizations. The National Civic Federation has published a pamphlet, "Views of Legal Committee Department" on compensation for industrial accidents and their prevention.

This article presents information on documents and reports of various corporations. A noteworthy act for railroad regulation was passed by the legislature of California on February 10, 1911. All rates on intrastate business in California are hence-forth to be established by the state railroad commission. Carriers may propose changes between the first and tenth days of July of each year, but may not themselves raise or lower any rate. The commission has power over demurrage, storage, carrying, delivering, switching, time of transit, and any service incidental to the transportation of passengers or freight. By an ordinance granting privileges to the Chicago Telephone Company, passed November 6, 1907, the city council reserved the right, from time to time, to regulate telephone rates by special ordinance. The city should desire to take up the regulation of rates, the comptroller is required to give the company thirty days' notice, and the latter must then present all the information needed to assist the city to make a proper and reasonable regulation of rates.

Highlights documents and reports concerning industries and commerce as of March 1917. Topics of the reports; Agencies responsible for the publication of the documents.

This article presents several documents, reports and legislation regarding public finance in the U.S. The Bureau of the Census has published in the series of "Digest of State Laws Relating to Taxation and Revenue: 1932, Oklahoma, Ohio, South Dakota, Maine. The Bureau of the Census has also published mimeographed sheets of "General Property Tax Levies for the Fiscal Year Ending June 80 1933." Such summaries have been prepared for the States of California, Delaware, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina. Senate Report No. 558, 73rd Congress, 2nd Session, deals with the Revenue Bill of 1984, containing the report submitted by Senator Harrison of the Committee on Finance. The report "New Indiana Tax Law Enacted by the Indiana General Assembly at its 1988 Regular Session," prepared by Philip Lutz, Jr., attorney general of Indiana.

Highlights documents and reports concerning demography as of March 1917. Topics of the reports; Agencies responsible for the publication of the documents.