1st Edition

The Commonsense of Political Economy Volume Two

By Philip H. Wicksteed Copyright 2003
    482 Pages
    by Routledge

    482 Pages
    by Routledge

    This is Volume XXI of twenty-three in a collection on the History of Economic Thought. Originally published in 1933, this volume offers selected papers and reviews on economic theory as a second volume of two.

    Book 1: Excursive and Critical Chapter 1: Margins and their Diagrammatic Representation Chapter 2: On The Diagrammatic Method of Representing Areas of Satisfaction and Marginal Significances Chapter 3: On The Nature of Curves of Total Satisfaction Chapter 4: Buyer and Seller. Demand and Supply Chapter 5: The Theory of 'Increasing and Diminishing Returns' Chapter 6: The Diagrammatic Exposition of the Law of Rent and Its Implications Chapter 7: Banking. Bills. Currency Book III: Analytical and Practical Chapter 1: Samples of Analysis Chapter 2: Some Further Analyses Chapter 3: Conclusion Selected Papers and Reviews * The Marxian Theory of Value (a) Das Kapital: A Criticism (b) The Jevonian Criticism of Marx (A comment on the Rev P.H. Wicksteed's article by Bernard Shaw) (c) The Jevonian Criticism of Marx: A Rejoinder * On Certain Passages in Jevons's Theory of Political Economy * Elementary Mathematical Economics: (a) Dimensions of Economic Quantities (b) Degree of Utility (c) Final Degree of Utility * Political Economy and Psychology * The Scope and Method of Political Economy in the Light of the 'Marginal' Theory of Value and Distribution * Final Utility * Reviews and Biographical Notes (a) Stanley Jevons (b) Jevon's Economic Work (c) Pareto's Manuale di Economia Politica (d) Sir Sydney Chapman's Political Economy (e) H.J. Davenport's Economics of Enterprise * Selected Syllabuses of Extension Lecture Courses (a) The Elements of Political Economy (Value or Worth), 1891 (b) Hire and Interest, 1892 (c) The Theory of Earning and Spending (Second Course), 1895 (d) Getting and Spending, 1905