Social Aspects of the Business Cycle (RLE: Business Cycles)

Thomas, Dorothy Swaine

Introduction. 1. The Problem and Its Setting 2. Critique of Previous Reearches into the Social Aspects of the Business Cycle Part 1: The Economists Part 2: The Criminologists Part 3: The Statisticians 3. Marriages and the Business Cycle 4. Births and the Business Cycle 5. Deaths and the Business Cycle 6. Pauperism and the Business Cycle 7. Alcoholism and the Business Cycle 8. Crime and the Business Cycle 9. Emigration and the Business Cycle 10. Summary. Appendix A: Methods 1. Secular Trend 2. Seasonal Variation 3. Comparison of Cyclical Fluctuations Appendix B: Tables.