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The Diffusion of Stock Ownership in the United States

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  • Gardiner C. Means

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Growth in number of book stockholders in recent years, 561. — More rapid growth in immediate post-war period, 566. — Customer and employee sales important only after 1920, 567. — Examination of income-tax data for possible shift in ownership, 570. — Large shift in ownership from rich to less rich apparent between 1916 and 1921, none thereafter, 574. — Check on validity of figures by examination of methods of manipulation, 575; by examination of income-tax data, particularly for tax evasion, 576; by discussion of possible explanations of shift, 585; by the evidence of growth in number of book stockholders, 591. — Conclusion, 591. — Statistical Appendix, Tables I–VIII, 593.

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  • Gardiner C. Means, 1930. "The Diffusion of Stock Ownership in the United States," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 44(4), pages 561-600.
  • Handle: RePEc:oup:qjecon:v:44:y:1930:i:4:p:561-600.
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