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Frank A. Fetter, Economics, vol. 1: Economic Principles [1915]

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Online Library of Liberty: Economics, vol. 1: Economic Principles

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Economics, vol. 1: Economic Principles,* (New York: The Century Co., 1915).

Author: Frank A. Fetter

About This Title:

Volume 1 of Fetter’s 2 volume survey of economics written while he was a professor at Princeton University. Vol. 1 contains chapters on value and price, rent, wages, time-value and interest, enterprise and profit, and dynamic economic change.

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Online Library of Liberty: Economics, vol. 1: Economic Principles

Table Of Contents

Foreword to Economists and Teachers Economic Principles

Part I: Elements of Value and Price

Chapter 1: Purpose and Nature of Economics Chapter 2: Choice and Value

Chapter 3: Goods and Psychic Income Chapter 4: Principles of Evaluation Chapter 5: Trade By Barter

Chapter 6: Money and Markets

Chapter 7: Principles of Price

Chapter 8: Competition and Monopoly Part II: Usance and Rent

Chapter 9: Agents For Changing Stuff and Form

Chapter 10: Agents For Effecting Changes of Place and Time Chapter 11: Consumption and Duration

Chapter 12: The Principle of Proportionality

Chapter 13: The Concept of Usance-value Chapter 14: The Renting Contract Chapter 15: Principles of Rent

Part III: Valuable Human Services, and Wages

Chapter 16: Human Beings and Their Economic Services Chapter 17: Conditions For Efficient Labor

Chapter 18: The Value of Labor and the Choice of Occupations Chapter 19: Principles of Wages

Part IV: Time-value and Interest Chapter 20: Time-preference Chapter 21: Rate of Time-preference

Chapter 22: Money and Capitalization

Chapter 23: Capitalization of Monetary Incomes Chapter 24: Saving and Borrowing

Chapter 25: Capitalization and Interest Part V: Enterprise and Profit

Chapter 26: Enterprise Chapter 27: Management Chapter 28: Profits and Costs

Chapter 29: Various Shades of Profits Chapter 30: Costs and Competitive Prices

Chapter 31: Monopoly-prices; Large Production

Part VI: Dynamic Changes In Economic Society Chapter 32: The Problem of Population Chapter 33: Volitional Doctrine of Population Chapter 34: Decreasing and Increasing Returns

Chapter 35: Basic Material Resources: Their Use, Consumption, and Conservation

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Chapter 36: Machinery and Wages

Chapter 37: Waste and Luxury

Chapter 38: Abstinence and Production

Chapter 39: Value Theory and Social Welfare

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