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Essentials of Price Theory
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This volume is a general survey of pure value and distribution theory written for students who have completed a more discursive elementary course, or, perhaps, for a select group of students entering on a series of courses in economics.
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Table of contents
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- CONTENTS
- BOOK ONE. INTRODUCTORY
- I. The Meaning of Economy
- II. The Objects of Economic Study
- III. Economic Methods
- IV. The Historical Method
- Appendix to Book One
- BOOK TWO. THE PRICE SYSTEM IN ABSTRACTION
- V. Equations of the Simplified Economy under Conditions of Monopoly, Monopsony and Single and Multiple Commodities
- VI. Equations of the Simplified Economy (Continued)
- VII. The Price System in the Simplified Economy
- BOOK THREE. THEORY OF PRICE IN AN INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY
- VIII. Introduction to Book Three
- IX. The Curves
- Appendix to Chapter IX
- X. The Industrial Supply Curve
- XI. Consumers' Demand
- XII. The Determination of Price
- XIII. Some Further Problems in Price Determination, Joint Costs, Multiple Equilibrium, Price Discrimination
- XIV. Decreasing Costs–Comparison of Competitive and Monopoly Output
- XV. Conclusion to Book III
- BOOK FOUR. DISTRIBUTION; THE PRICING OF THE AGENTS OF PRODUCTION
- XVI. Introduction to Book Four
- XVII. Wages and Enterprise
- XVIII. Rent and Differential Surpluses
- XIX. Interest
- XX. Conclusion
- INDEX