Cover
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Book I Systematic and Constructive
I.1 Introductory: Administration of Resources and Choice Between Alternatives. Price and the Relative Scale
I.2 Margins. Diminishing Psychic Returns
I.3 Economical Administration and Its Difficulties
I.4 Money and Exchange
I.5 Business and the Economic Nexus
I.6 Markets
I.7 Markets (continued). Interest, Tools, Land
I.8 Markets (continued). Earnings
I.9 Distribution. Cost of Production
Book II Excursive and Critical
II.1 Margins and Their Diagrammatic Representation
II.2 On the Diagrammatic Method of Representing Areas of Satisfaction and Marginal Significance
II.3 On the Nature of Curves of Total Satisfaction
II.4 Buyer and Seller. Demand and Supply
II.5 The Theory of "Increasing and Diminishing Returns"
II.6 The Diagrammatic Exposition of the Law of Rent and Its Implications
II.7 Banking. Bills. Currency
Book III Analytical and Practical
III.1 Samples of Analysis
III.2 Some Further Analyses
III.3 Conclusion
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The Common Sense of Political Economy

Including a Study of the Human Basis of Economic Law
Wicksteed, Philip H.
(1844-1927)
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1910
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Book I Systematic and Constructive
I.1 Introductory: Administration of Resources and Choice Between Alternatives. Price and the Relative Scale
I.2 Margins. Diminishing Psychic Returns
I.3 Economical Administration and Its Difficulties
I.4 Money and Exchange
I.5 Business and the Economic Nexus
I.6 Markets
I.7 Markets (continued). Interest, Tools, Land
I.8 Markets (continued). Earnings
I.9 Distribution. Cost of Production
Book II Excursive and Critical
II.1 Margins and Their Diagrammatic Representation
II.2 On the Diagrammatic Method of Representing Areas of Satisfaction and Marginal Significance
II.3 On the Nature of Curves of Total Satisfaction
II.4 Buyer and Seller. Demand and Supply
II.5 The Theory of "Increasing and Diminishing Returns"
II.6 The Diagrammatic Exposition of the Law of Rent and Its Implications
II.7 Banking. Bills. Currency
Book III Analytical and Practical
III.1 Samples of Analysis
III.2 Some Further Analyses
III.3 Conclusion
Footnotes
About the Book and Author
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