Research Catalog

Title

Readings in price theory, selected by a committee of the American Economic Association.

Author

American Economic Association.

Publication

Chicago, Published for the Association by R.D. Irwin, 1952.

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Details

Additional Authors

Stigler, George J. (George Joseph), 1911-1991

Description

x, 568 pages diagrams; 24 cm

Summary

"Selection committee ... George J. Stigler, Kenneth E. Boulding." Bibliography: p. 527-561.

Series Statement

The Series of republished articles on economics, v. 6

Uniform Title

Series of republished articles on economics ; v. 6.

Subject

• Prices
• Value
• Cost
• prices
• value (economic concept)
• costs
• Cost
• Prices
• Value
• Mikroökonomie
• Preistheorie
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Economics
• Industrial organization
• Prix
• Valeur
• Coût

Note

• "Selection committee ... George J. Stigler, Kenneth E. Boulding."

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 527-561.

Contents

I. Utility and demand -- The scope and methods of political economy / Philip H. Wicksteed -- On the theory of the budget of the consumer / Eugen E. Slutsky -- The utility analysis of choice involving risk / Milton Friedman and L.J. Savage -- What do statistical "demand curves" show? / E.J. Working -- II. Costs and returns -- Of empty economic boxes / J.H. Clapham -- Empty economic boxes : a reply / A.C. Pigou, with a reply by J.H. Clapham -- Those empty boxes / D.H. Robertson -- Some fallacies in the interpretation of social cost / F.H. Knight -- The laws of return under competitive conditions / Piero Sraffa -- Cost curves and supply curves / Jacob Viner, with supplementary note from R.V. Clemence -- Rising supply price / Joan Robinson -- External economies and diseconomies / Howard S. Ellis and William Fellner -- The measurement of statistical cost functions : an appraisal of some recent contributions / Hans Staehle -- III. Stocks in the theory of prices -- Assets, prices and monetary theory / Helen Makower and Jacob Marschak -- A liquidity preference theory of market prices / K.E. Boulding -- IV. The rationale of the firm -- The nature of the firm / R.H. Coase -- A note on profit maximisation and its implications / T. Scitovsky -- V. Imperfect competition -- Annual survey of economic theory : the theory of monopoly / J.R. Hicks -- Market imperfection and excess capacity / Nicholas Kaldor -- Demand under conditions of oligopoly / Paul M. Sweezy -- The kinky oligopoly demand curve and rigid prices / George J. Stigler -- Price theory and oligopoly / K.W. Rothschild -- VI. Spatial competition -- Stability in competition / Harold Hotelling -- Optimum location in spatial competition / Arthur Smithies -- VII. Theory of games -- The theory of economic behavior / Leonid Hurwicz.

LCCN

52002167

OCLC

• ocm00170632
• 170632
• SCSB-104362

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library