ABSTRACT

Part 1 of this volume analyses the main issues in the theory of Applied Economics. Part 2 surveys the rise of capitalist enterprise and indicates the importance of certain institutions in the growth and working of the economic system at the start of the twentieth century. The concluding chapters stress the relevance of these considerations to the problems facing politicians and administrators.

part I|174 pages

Analytical

chapter Chapter One|12 pages

The Framing of the Problem

chapter Chapter Two|11 pages

Entrepreneur Theories

chapter Chapter Three|16 pages

the Entrepreneur Function

chapter Chapter Four|20 pages

Capitalist Undertaking

chapter Chapter Five|13 pages

Profit Theories

chapter Chapter Six|22 pages

The Profits of Undertaking

chapter Chapter Seven|16 pages

The Theory of Monopoly and Advantage

chapter Chapter Eight|12 pages

Profit and Economic Change

chapter Chapter Nine|18 pages

Advantage and Class

chapter Chapter Ten|14 pages

Monopoly and Social Theory

chapter Chapter Eleven|18 pages

The Effects of Monopoly

part II|183 pages

Historical

chapter Chapter Twelve|11 pages

The Origins of Town Enterprise

chapter Chapter Thirteen|16 pages

The Struggle for Market Control

chapter Chapter Fourteen|17 pages

The Town Monopoly

chapter Chapter Fifteen|14 pages

The Beginnings of Capitalist Undertaking

chapter Chapter Sixteen|16 pages

the Transition in England

chapter Chapter Seventeen|19 pages

The National Market and Mercantilism

chapter Chapter Eighteen|20 pages

The Rise of the Wage-System

chapter Chapter Nineteen|25 pages

The First Period of Capitalist Undertaking

chapter Chapter Twenty|18 pages

The Nineteenth Century

chapter Chapter Twenty-One|25 pages

An Unfinished Page

part III|43 pages

Applied

chapter Chapter Twenty-Two|17 pages

The Problems of Economic Control

chapter Chapter Twenty-Three|15 pages

The Problems of Economic Anarchy

chapter Chapter Twenty-Four|8 pages

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