Principles of economics / Alfred Marshall
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TextPublication details: New Delhi: Atlantic, 2010Description: V.1, (2v. set): illISBN: 9788126914067 (set); 9788126914043 (v.1)Subject(s): Economics -- Theory and Principles | Production Economics -- Demand and Supply | Demand and Supply -- General TheoryDDC classification: 330 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Central Library, Sikkim University Reference | Reference Collection | 330 MAR/P (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | P31873 |
Introduction by R.N. Ghosh
Volume I
Book I: Preliminary Survey
The substance of economics;
Economic generalizations of laws;
The order and aims of economic studies
Book II: Some Fundamental Notions
Wealth;
Production, consumption, labour, necessaries;
Income, capital;
Book III: On Wants and their Satisfaction
Wants in relation to activities;
Gradations of consumer's demand;
The elasticity of wants;
Choice between different users of the same thing: immediate and deferred uses;
Value and utility.
Book IV: The Agents of Production. Land, Labour, Capital and Organization
The fertility of land;
The fertility of land, continued. The tendency of diminishing return;
The growth of population;
The health and strength of the population;
Industrial training;
The growth of wealth;
Industrial Organization.
Book V: General Relations of Demand, Supply, and Value
Temporary equilibrium of demand and supply;
Equilibrium of normal demand and supply;
The investment and distribution of resources;
Joint and composite demand, joint composite supply;
Prime and total cost in relation to joint products, cost of marketing, insurance against risk, cost of reproduction;
Marginal costs in relation to values, general principles;
Marginal costs in relation to agricultural values;
Marginal costs in relation to urban values;
Equilibrium of normal demand and supply;
Theory of changes of normal demand and supply in relation to the doctrine of maximum satisfaction;
The theories of monopolies;
Summary of the general theory of equilibrium of demand and supply.
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