A Review Of Economic Theory

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Edwin Cannan
Psychology Press, 1964 - 448 páginas

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Cantillons Essay on the Nature of Commerce in General
19
Physiocracy in France
27
Smiths Wealth of Nations
35
Economics and Economists
43
The Nature of Produce
49
The Requisites of Production
56
CHAPTER IX
58
CHAPTER IV
62
Meaning of The Rate of Interest
271
The Rate of Interest on Shortterm Loans
275
The Rate of Interest when Money is Appreciating or Depreciating
277
Why is there a Rate of Interest?
280
CHAPTER X
284
The Idea of Distribution
291
Confusion initiated by Adam Smith about the Basis of Classification
303
Attempts to Redefine Profit
308

The Law of Diminishing Returns
79
The Future
89
THE INFLUENCE OF COOPERATION ON PRODUCE PAGE
93
The Stimulus to Industry
103
The Selection of Individuals for Occupations
116
CHAPTER VI
122
The Accumulation of Material Equipment
131
The Economists Conception of Capital
145
CHAPTER VII
154
Adam Smiths Cost of Production Theory
164
Ricardos attempt to revive the Pure Labour Theory
172
Ricardo on the Value of Currency
181
The LabourandotherSacrifices Theory
187
Utility
197
Elasticity of Demand and Increasing and Diminishing
206
CHAPTER VIII
218
Norent Land
227
Differences of Rent
239
THE THEORY OF THE COMPARATIVE VALUE OF CAPITAL AND INCOME PAGE 1 Early Theory about the Rise and Fall of Interest
250
The Rate of Profit
255
The WestRicardian Theory of the Rise and Fall of Profit
258
The Quantity and Utility Theory
260
Application of the Theory
265
Spendthrift Demand for Capital
269
Attempts to Redefine Rent
312
Quasirent of Ordinary Transferable Property
318
Quasirent of Acquired Personal Qualities
327
Conclusion
330
CHAPTER XI
333
Adam Smiths Supply and Demand Theory
338
Malthus on the Supply of Labour
345
Regulation of the Supply by the Standard of Life
348
What Fund furnishes the Demand for Labour?
350
The Producelessdeductions Theory of Wages
356
Earnings of Labour other than Wages
358
Ultimate Causes of Variation in the General Level of Earnings
363
Conclusion
368
THEIR INEQUALITIES PAGE
369
Demands for Labour
376
Regulation
384
National Differences
391
CHAPTER XIII
397
3 Inequalities between Different Individuals
403
Inequalities between Different Nations
410
For and towards Greater Economic Security
422
3 For and towards Greater Economic Independence
432
INDEX
445
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