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The Principles of Economics

by Frank A. Fetter

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — The Nature and Purpose of Political Economy
  3. 3Chapter 2 — Economic Motives
  4. 4Chapter 3 — Wealth and Welfare
  5. 5Chapter 4 — The Nature of Demand
  6. 6Chapter 5 — Exchange in a Market
  7. 7Chapter 6 — Psychic Income
  8. 8Division B — Wealth and Rent
  9. 9Chapter 8 — The Renting Contract
  10. 10Chapter 9 — The Law of Diminishing Returns
  11. 11Chapter 10 — The Theory of Rent: The Market Value of the Usufruct
  12. 12Chapter 11 — Repair, Depreciation, and Destruction of Wealth: Relat…
  13. 13Chapter 12 — Increase of Rent-Bearers and of Rents
  14. 14Division C — Capitalization and Time-Value
  15. 15Chapter 14 — The Money Economy and the Concept of Capital
  16. 16Chapter 15 — The Capitalization of All Forms of Rent
  17. 17Chapter 16 — Interest on Money Loans
  18. 18Chapter 17 — The Theory of Time-Value
  19. 19Chapter 18 — Relatively Fixed and Relatively Increasable Forms of C…
  20. 20Chapter 19 — Saving and Production as Affected by the Rate of Interest
  21. 21Part II — The Value of Human Services — Division A — Labor and Wages
  22. 22Chapter 21 — The Supply of Labor
  23. 23Chapter 22 — Conditions for Efficient Labor
  24. 24Chapter 23 — The Law of Wages
  25. 25Chapter 24 — The Relation of Labor to Value
  26. 26Chapter 25 — The Wage System and Its Results
  27. 27Chapter 26 — Machinery and Labor
  28. 28Chapter 27 — Trade-Unions
  29. 29Division B — Enterprise and Profits
  30. 30Chapter 29 — Business Organization and the Enterpriser’s Function
  31. 31Chapter 30 — Cost of Production
  32. 32Chapter 31 — The Law of Profits
  33. 33Chapter 32 — Profit-Sharing, Producers’ and Consumers’ Coöperation
  34. 34Chapter 33 — Monopoly Profits
  35. 35Chapter 34 — Growth of Trusts and Combinations in the United States
  36. 36Chapter 35 — Effect of Trusts on Prices
  37. 37Chapter 36 — Gambling, Speculation, and Promoters’ Profits
  38. 38Chapter 37 — Crises and Industrial Depressions
  39. 39Part III — The Social Aspects of Value — Division A — Relation of P…
  40. 40Chapter 39 — Income and Social Service
  41. 41Chapter 40 — Waste and Luxury
  42. 42Chapter 41 — Reaction of Consumption on Production
  43. 43Chapter 42 — Distribution of the Social Income
  44. 44Chapter 43 — Survey of the Theory of Value
  45. 45Division B — Relation of the State to Industry
  46. 46Chapter 45 — Use, Coinage, and Value of Money
  47. 47Chapter 46 — Token Coinage and Government Paper Money
  48. 48Chapter 47 — The Standard of Deferred Payments
  49. 49Chapter 48 — Banking and Credit
  50. 50Chapter 49 — Taxation in Its Relation to Value
  51. 51Chapter 50 — The General Theory of International Trade
  52. 52Chapter 51 — The Protective Tariff
  53. 53Chapter 52 — Other Protective Social and Labor Legislation
  54. 54Chapter 53 — Public Ownership of Industry
  55. 55Chapter 54 — Railroads and Industry
  56. 56Chapter 55 — The Public Nature of Railroads
  57. 57Chapter 56 — Public Policy as to Control of Industry
  58. 58Chapter 57 — Future Trend of Values
  59. 59Questions and Critical Notes

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