|
(1877-1959)
|
|
Editor/Trans.
|
First Pub. Date
1920
|
Publisher/Edition
London: Macmillan and Co.
|
Pub. Date
1932
|
Comments
4th edition.
|
| TABLE OF CONTENTS |
| Cover Table of Contents |
| About the Book and Author |
| Preface to the Third Edition (1928) |
| Note to the Fourth Edition (1932) |
| PART I Welfare and the National Dividend |
| I.I Welfare and Economic Welfare |
| I.II Desires and Satisfactions |
| I.III The National Dividend |
| I.IV What is Meant by Maintaining Capital Intact |
| I.V Changes in the Size of the National Dividend |
| I.VI The Measurement of Changes in the Size of the National Dividend |
| I.VII Economic Welfare and Changes in the Size of the National Dividend |
| I.VIII Economic Welfare and Changes in the Distribution of the National Dividend |
| I.IX Reactions Through the Numbers of the Population |
| I.X The National Dividend and the Quality of the People |
| I.XI The Method of Discussion to be Followed |
| PART II The Size of the National Dividend and the Distribution of Resources Among Different Uses |
| II.I Introductory |
| II.II The Definition of Marginal Social and Private net Products |
| II.III The Values of Marginal Social net Products and the Size of the National Dividend |
| II.IV Rates of Return and the Values of Marginal Private net Products |
| II.V The Effects of Eliminating Obstacles to Movement |
| II.VI Hindrances to Equality of Returns due to Imperfect Knowledge |
| II.VII Hindrances to Equality of Returns due to Imperfect Divisibility of the Units in Terms of Which Transactions are Conducted |
| II.VIII Hindrances to Equality of Returns due to Relative Variations of Demand in Different Occupations and Places |
| II.IX Divergences Between Marginal Social net Product and Marginal Private net Product |
| II.X Marginal Private and Social net Products in Relation to Industrial Forms |
| II.XI Increasing and Decreasing Supply Price |
| II.XII State Regulation of Competitive Prices |
| II.XIII State Regulation of Supplies |
| II.XIV The Conditions of Monopolisation |
| II.XV Monopolistic Competition |
| II.XVI Simple Monopoly |
| II.XVII Discriminating Monopoly |
| II.XVIII The Special Problem of Railway Rates |
| II.XIX Purchasers' Associations |
| II.XX Intervention by Public Authorities |
| II.XXI Public Control of Monopoly |
| II.XXII Public Operation of Industries |
| PART III The National Dividend and Labour |
| III.I Industrial Peace |
| III.II The Classification of Industrial Differences |
| III.III Voluntary Arrangements for Conciliation and Arbitration |
| III.IV Mediation |
| III.V Coercive Intervention |
| III.VI An Analytical View of Industrial Peace |
| III.VII Hours of Labour |
| III.VIII The Methods of Industrial Remuneration |
| III.IX The Distribution of Labour Among Occupations and Places |
| III.X Employment Exchanges |
| III.XI Unemployment Versus Short Time |
| III.XII The Practicability of Interference to Raise Wages |
| III.XIII Methods of Engaging Labour |
| III.XIV Interference to Raise Wages in Places and Occupations Where They are Unfair |
| III.XV Fair Wages Inside Particular Industries |
| III.XVI Fairness as a Variable Relation |
| III.XVII Interference to Raise Wages in Places and Occupations Where They are Already Fair |
| III.XVIII Wage Rates and Capacity |
| III.XIX A National Minimum Time-wage |
| III.XX Fixed and Fluctuating Wage Rates in Particular Industries |
| PART IV The Distribution of the national Dividend |
| IV.I The General Problem of Disharmony |
| IV.II Pareto's law |
| IV.III The Supply of Capital and Labour |
| IV.IV Inventions and Improvements |
| IV.V The Manipulation of Wages |
| IV.VI Rationing |
| IV.VII Subsidies to Wages |
| IV.VIII Direct Transferences From the Relatively Rich to the Relatively Poor |
| IV.IX The Effect on the National Dividend of the Expectation of Transferences From the Relatively Rich |
| IV.X The Effect on the National Dividend of the Expectation of Transferences to the Poor |
| IV.XI Bounties on Things Purchased by the Poor |
| IV.XII The Effect on the National Dividend of the Fact of Transference From the Relatively Rich to the Poor |
| IV.XIII A National Minimum Standard of Real Income |
| Appendix I Uncertainty-bearing as a Factor of Production |
| Appendix II The Measurement of Elasticities of Demand |
| Appendix III A Mathematical and Diagrammatic Treatment of Certain Problems of Competition and Monopoly |
| Footnotes to Parts I and II |
| Footnotes to Parts III, IV, and Appendices |
The cuneiform inscription in the Liberty Fund logo is the earliest-known written appearance of the word "freedom" (amagi), or "liberty." It is taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.