Book:Alec Cairncross/Introduction to Economics/Second Edition
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Alec Cairncross: Introduction to Economics (New and Enlarged Edition)
Published $\text {1955}$, Butterworth & Co.
Subject Matter
- Economics
Contents
- Preface
- Part I: Introductory
- 1 The Economic Problem
- 2 Some Preliminary Conceptions
- 3 The Existing Resources: The Factors or Agents of Production
- 4 The National Economy
- Part II: The Structure of Industry
- 5 Specialisation: (1) Division of Labour
- 6 Specialisation: (2) Localisation of Industry
- 7 Large-Scale Production
- 8 Small-Scale Production
- 9 The Finance of Large-Scale Production
- 10 The Growth of Large-Scale Production
- Part III: Supply and Demand
- 11 The Existing Order: a Preliminary Survey
- 12 The Price Mechanism
- 13 Supply and Demand
- 14 Demand
- 15 Supply: Cost and Price
- 16 Monopoly and Competition
- 17 Supply: Cost in Relation to Output
- 18 Supply: Cost in Relation to Time
- 19 Inter-relationships of Supply and Demand
- 20 Social Aspects of Pricing
- Part IV: The Distribution of Income
- 21 The Distribution of Income
- 22 Wages
- 23 Interest and Profit
- Part V: International Trade
- 24 The Theory of International Trade
- Part VI: Money and Employment
- 25 Money
- 26 Changes in the Value of Money
- 27 The Causes of Monetary Instability
- 28 The Demand for Money
- 29 The Supply of Money: (1) Banking Operations
- 30 The Supply of Money: (2) The Creation of Credit
- 31 Money and Foreign Exchange
- 32 Unemployment and the Trade Cycle
- Part VII The State and the Economic Order
- 33 The Rise and Decline of Laissez-Faire
- 34 The Rôle of the State
- (1) The State and Inequality
- (2) State Control of Industry
- (3) The State and Employment
- 25 The State and Economic Planning
- Index