The Commonsense of Political Economy: Volume Two

by Wicksteed,Philip H.

• ISBN13: 9780415313421
• ISBN10: 0415313422
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

First published in 1910

Table of Contents

THE COMMON SENSE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
BOOK II EXCURSIVE AND CRITICAL
Margins and Their Diagrammatic Representation	401	(38)
On The Diagrammatic Method of Representing Areas of Satisfaction and Marginal Significances	439	(35)
On The Nature of Curves of Total Satisfaction	474	(19)
Buyer and Seller. Demand and Supply	493	(34)
The Theory of ``Increasing and Diminishing Returns''	527	(23)
The Diagrammatic Exposition of the Law of Rent and Its Implications	550	(25)
Banking. Bills. Currency	575	(52)
BOOK III ANALYTICAL AND PRACTICAL
Samples of Analysis	627	(33)
Some Further Analyses	660	(36)
Conclusion	696	(167)
SELECTED PAPERS AND REVIEWS
The Marxian Theory of Value:
Das Kapital: A Criticism	705	(19)
The Jevonian Criticism of Marx (A Comment on the Rev. P.H. Wicksteed's Article by Bernard Shaw)	724	(7)
The Jevonian Criticism of Marx: A Rejoinder	731	(3)
On Certain Passages in Jevons's Theory of Political Economy	734	(21)
Elementary Mathematical Economics:
Dimensions of Economic Quantities	755	(4)
Degree of Utility	759	(3)
Final Degree of Utility	762	(4)
Political Economy and Psychology	766	(6)
The Scope and Method of Political Economy in the Light of the ``Marginal'' Theory of Value and Distribution	772	(25)
Final Utility	797	(4)
Reviews and Biographical Notes:
Stanley Jevons	801	(8)
Jevons's Economic Work	809	(5)
Pareto's Manuale di Economia Politica	814	(4)
Sir Sydney Chapman's Political Economy	818	(4)
H. J. Davenport's Economics of Enterprise	822	(5)
Selected Syllabuses of Extension Lecture Courses:
The Elements of Political Economy (Value or Worth), 1891	827	(13)
Hire and Interest, 1892	840	(1)
The Theory of Earning and Spending (Second Course), 1895	841	(8)
Getting and Spending, 1905	849	(14)
Appendix: Bibliography of Writings on Economics and Sociology	863	(2)
Index	865