Knowledge that Transforms

I. The problem: quantitative relationship between the primary demand for particular products and total output and employment, 290. — II. Technological relations assumed, 294. — The resulting equations, 296. — Computing employment, 297. — The concept of final demand, 298. — III. Computation from American data for 1939, 299. — IV. Applicability of these results to data for 1929, 304. — Explanation of discrepancies, 308. — V. Relationship between final purchases of particular commodities and total employment, 311. — Appendix, 313.

A new theorem: consumers harmed by price stability, 602. — I. Related propositions: consumer's surplus and price stability, 602. — II. The general case, 605. — III. Indifference curve analysis, 606. — IV. The theorem in its most general form, 608. — V. The meaning of the above results: "common sense, " 609; offsetting price changes, 609; semi-luxuries, 610; extreme cases, 610; producers or sellers, 610; character of the demand function, 611; quantities sold, 611; adjustment of expenditures, 613; advance knowledge of prices, 613.

I. Summary and conclusions, 388. — Loss offset provisions, 391. — II. The rationale of investment behavior: yield and risk defined, 393; yield and risk of an asset combination, 398; investor's indifference map and investment equilibrium, 402. — III. Taxation without loss offset: effects of the tax on yield and risk, tax sensitiveness, 403; adjustment of asset combination held, 405. popular versions of the argument, 408. — IV. Taxation with full loss offset: effects on yield and risk, 409; total risk and private risk distinguished, 410; adjustment of asset combination held, 411; total risk increased as result of tax, 412. — V. The general case, taxation with variable loss offset: effects of varying tax rate and varying loss offset, 415; adjustment of asset combination to changes in tax rate, with given loss offset, 418; adjustment to changes in loss offset, with given tax rate, 419. — VI. Qualifications, 421.