Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol. 28 No. 3 1914
Davenport's Economics and the Present Problems of Theory
Abstract
I. Davenport's Economics is in the direct line of succession of the classical treatises on economics, 417. — II. The book essentially classical in scope and method, 419. — III. The chief departure from classical method in the greater significance ascribed to the entrepreneur, 422. — IV. Competing concepts of marginality: contradictions in Davenport's usage, 424. — V. Inadequacy of the concept of value as a mathematical ratio for the analysis of the problems of price and value of money, 430. — VI. Production identified with acquisition, 437. — Bearing of this amalgamation of concepts upon the problems of functional and personal distribution, 438. — VII. Social implications of Davenport's system of economic theory, 443.
- DOI
- 10.2307/1884982
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 417
- Sources
- openalex crossref