What are the effects of the extension of communication and of news upon fluctuations in the stock market and economic changes generally?
Does the scale of stocks on the exchanges tend to exaggerate the fluctuations in the market, or to stabilize them?
Do the reports in the newspapers, so far as they represent the facts, tend to speed up social changes, or to stabilize a movement already in progress?
What is the effect of propaganda and rumor, in cases where the sources of accurate information are cut off?
To what extent can fluctuations of the stock market be controlled by formal regulation?
To what extent can social changes, strikes, and revolutionary movements be controlled by the censorship?
To what extent can the scientific forecasting of economic and social changes exercise a useful control over the trend of prices and of events?
To what extent can the prices recorded by the stock exchange be compared with public opinion as recorded by the newspaper?
To what extent can the city, which responds more quickly and more decisively to changing events, be regarded as nerve centers of the social organism?