I. Introduction, 698. — II. The relation of new investment to changes in the use of existing capital, 700. — III. The analysis applied to three concrete problems: (a) vertical integration, 706. — IV. (b) Development of backward areas, 708. — V. (c) The trade cycle, 711.
"Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect." Edmund Burke, on the Revolution in France. Introduction, 714. — I. The classical economists' theory of the state and of government, 716. — II. Universal economic, yet hmited political, freedom, 725. — III. Reasons for distrust of popular, and of authoritarian, government, 729. — IV. The paradox of free trade and nationalism, 736. — V. The distribution of power: checks and balances, 739. — VI. The free market as the means to political progress, 742. — Conclusion, 746.
The problem, 229. — Plant and envelope curves: plant average cost, 230; average cost, 231; the envelope, 234. — Divisibility and economies of scale: reasons for successively lower minima, 235; the imperfect divisibility analysis, 236; the “mathematics” of divisibility, 238; divisibility and efficiency, 239; capital equipment, 243. — Proportionality and diseconomies of scale: importance of the problem, 246; the unnecessary search for a fixed factor, 247; reasons for higher plant curves, 248; no “most efficient proportion,” 249. — Constant proportions and homogeneity: the curve of constant proportions, 250; the problem of distribution, 252. — Summary: proportions and size, 255. — Appendix: the indifference curve analysis, 257.
I. The problem, 748. — II. One country acts as a monopolist and sets a price which the other accepts, 749. — III. The same, continued, 752. — IV. One country acts as a discriminating monopolist, making an all-or-none offer which the other accepts, 756. — V. The case of pure competition, 759. — VI. Comparison of the three cases, 761.
Introduction: limitations of the study, 475. — I. Summary of Procedure, 476. — II. Summary of Results, 482. — III. Alternative Assumptions: lag in consumption habits, 488; shape of saving schedule, 490; shifting of corporation tax, 493. — Appendix, 497.
Introduction: scope of the paper, 165. — I. Individual demand schedules: fundamental properties, 166; alternative maximum bids, 168; reconstitution of the demand curve, 170; the reaction function, 172. — II. Collective demand schedules: additivity in closed markets, 175; more complex cases and the theory of games, 179; successive adaptation and time intervals, 182; recontracting, 185; successive adaptation in open markets, 186; further properties, non-additivity, 189. — III. Applications: elasticity of demand, 191; monopolistic discrimination and monopolistic competition, 195; the cobweb theorem, 198; the supply curve, non-additivity, 199. — Conclusions, 200.
Introduction: impact of the Nazi economic policy on the cartels, 576. — I. Potash: early developments, 577; the 1919 legislation, 578; operations under the 1919 law, 582; the International Potash Cartel, 582; penetration of the American potash industry, 584; the Potash Cartel and Combines under the Nazi regime, 585. — II. Cement: pre-Nazi market controls, 588; early stages of Nazi control, 589; the cement industry during the war, 591; the International Cement Cartel, 594.
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