PART I. ELEMENTS OF VALUE AND PRICE.
1. Purpose and nature of economics ........ 3
2. Choice and value ............. 12
3. Goods and psychic income ..... 22
4. Principles of evaluation .......... 31
5. Trade by barter ............ 42
6. Money and markets ......... 50
7. Principles of price .... 61
8. Competition and monopoly .......... 73
PART II. USANCE AND RENT.
9. Agents for changing stuff and form .... 89
10. Agents for effecting changes of place and time . 101
11. Consumption and duration ....... 111
12. The principle of proportionality ........ 122
13. The concept of usance-value 135
14. The renting contract ........ 143
15. Principles of rent ........... 158
PART III. VALUABLE HUMAN SERVICES, AND WAGES.
16. Human beings and their economic services . 171
17. Conditions for efficient labor ......... 184
18. The value of labor and the choice of occupations . 197
19. Principles of wages ............ 211
PART IV. TIME-VALUE AND INTEREST.
20. Time-preference ............. 235
21. Rate of time-preference ........... 248
22. Money and capitalization .......... 262
23. Capitalization of monetary incomes ....... 273
24. Saving and borrowing ........... 285
25. Capitalization and interest .......... 300
PART V. ENTERPRISE AND PROFIT.
26. Enterprise .............. 317
27. Management .............. 327
28. Profits and cost_ ............. 343
29. Various shades of profits .......... 358
30. Costs and competitive prices ......... 369
31. Monopoly-prices; large production ....... 381
PART VI. DYNAMIC CHANGES IN ECONOMIC SOCIETY.
32. The problem of population .... 399
33. Volitional doctrine of population ........ 414
34. Decreasing and increasing returns ....... 426
35. Basic material resources: their use, consumption, and conservation .............. 442
36. Machinery and wages ........... 456
37. Waste and luxury ............ 468
38. Abstinence and production .......... 482
39. Value theory and social welfare ........ 500
Index ............... 515
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PART I. MONEYANDPRICES
1. Nature of economic problems ......... 3
2. Origin and nature of money ......... 11
3. Commodity money and the quantity theory ..... 25
4. Fiduciary money, metal and paper .... 36
5. Price levels and the gold standard .... 54
6. Rising prices and the standard 70
PART II. BANKING AND INSURANCE
7. The functions of banks ......... 91
8. Banking in the United States before 1914 107
9. The Federal Reserve Act ......... 117
10. Crises and industrial depressions ....... 138
11. Institutions for saving and investment 158
12. Principles of insurance ......... 176
13. Scientific life insurance ...... 191
PART III. TARIFF AND TAXATION
14. American tariff history .......... 207
15. International trade ............ 230
16. The policy of a protective tariff ........ 246
17. Objects and principles of taxation ...... 270
18. Property and corporation taxes ....... 288
19. Personal taxes ............. 304
PART IV. WAGESANDI_BOR
20. Methods of industrial remuneration ....... 321
21. Organized labor ............. 337
22. Public regulation of hours and wages ..... 358
23. Other protective labor and social legislation . . 379
24. Social insurance ............. 398
25. Population and immigration ......... 417
PART V. PUBLIC POLICY TOWARD PRIVATE INDUSTRY
26. Agricultural and rural population ....... 441
27. Problems of agricultural economics , , . 457
28. The transportation problem . 477
29. Railroad regulation 490
30. The proMem of industrial monopoly 505
31. Public policy in respect to monopoly . . 522
PART VI. PRIVATE PROPERTY VERSUS SOCIAI_SM
32. The present economic system ..... 543
33. Public ownership . . . . . . 558
34. Methods of distribution . 574
35. Socialism, present and future 588
Index . 605