Economics, vol. 1: Economic Principles

Volume 1 of Fetter’s 2 volume survey of economics written while he was a professor at Princeton University. Vol. 1 contains chapters on value and price, rent, wages, time-value and interest, enterprise and profit, and dynamic economic change.
Economics, vol. 1: Economic Principles, (New York: The Century Co., 1915).
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- Author: Frank A. Fetter
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Table of Contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- FOREWORD TO ECONOMISTS AND TEACHERS
- ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES
- PART I: ELEMENTS OF VALUE AND PRICE
- CHAPTER 1: PURPOSE AND NATURE OF ECONOMICS
- Note
- CHAPTER 2: CHOICE AND VALUE
- Notes
- CHAPTER 3: GOODS AND PSYCHIC INCOME
- CHAPTER 4: PRINCIPLES OF EVALUATION
- Note
- CHAPTER 5: TRADE BY BARTER
- CHAPTER 6: MONEY AND MARKETS
- CHAPTER 7: PRINCIPLES OF PRICE
- CHAPTER 8: COMPETITION AND MONOPOLY
- PART II: USANCE AND RENT
- CHAPTER 9: AGENTS FOR CHANGING STUFF AND FORM
- CHAPTER 10: AGENTS FOR EFFECTING CHANGES OF PLACE AND TIME
- CHAPTER 11: CONSUMPTION AND DURATION
- CHAPTER 12: THE PRINCIPLE OF PROPORTIONALITY
- CHAPTER 13: THE CONCEPT OF USANCE-VALUE
- CHAPTER 14: THE RENTING CONTRACT
- Note
- CHAPTER 15: PRINCIPLES OF RENT
- PART III: VALUABLE HUMAN SERVICES, AND WAGES
- CHAPTER 16: HUMAN BEINGS AND THEIR ECONOMIC SERVICES
- CHAPTER 17: CONDITIONS FOR EFFICIENT LABOR
- CHAPTER 18: THE VALUE OF LABOR AND THE CHOICE OF OCCUPATIONS
- CHAPTER 19: PRINCIPLES OF WAGES
- Notes
- PART IV: TIME-VALUE AND INTEREST
- CHAPTER 20: TIME-PREFERENCE
- Note
- CHAPTER 21: RATE OF TIME-PREFERENCE
- CHAPTER 22: MONEY AND CAPITALIZATION
- CHAPTER 23: CAPITALIZATION OF MONETARY INCOMES
- CHAPTER 24: SAVING AND BORROWING
- CHAPTER 25: CAPITALIZATION AND INTEREST
- PART V: ENTERPRISE AND PROFIT
- CHAPTER 26: ENTERPRISE
- CHAPTER 27: MANAGEMENT
- CHAPTER 28: PROFITS AND COSTS
- Notes
- CHAPTER 29: VARIOUS SHADES OF PROFITS
- CHAPTER 30: COSTS AND COMPETITIVE PRICES
- CHAPTER 31: MONOPOLY-PRICES; LARGE PRODUCTION
- PART VI: DYNAMIC CHANGES IN ECONOMIC SOCIETY
- CHAPTER 32: THE PROBLEM OF POPULATION
- Note
- CHAPTER 33: VOLITIONAL DOCTRINE OF POPULATION
- CHAPTER 34: DECREASING AND INCREASING RETURNS
- Note
- CHAPTER 35: BASIC MATERIAL RESOURCES: THEIR USE, CONSUMPTION, AND CONSERVATION
- CHAPTER 36: MACHINERY AND WAGES
- CHAPTER 37: WASTE AND LUXURY
- CHAPTER 38: ABSTINENCE AND PRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 39: VALUE THEORY AND SOCIAL WELFARE
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