Marginal - Cost Price -Output Control : : A Critical History and Restatement of the Theory / / Burnham Putnam Beckwith.

Discusses the theory that price and/or output is ideal when price equals marginal cost through an analysis of individual economic problems.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1955]
©1955
Year of Publication:1955
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (284 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • I. Introduction
  • A Note on Terminology
  • Part One. History of the Theory of Marginal-Cost Price-Output Control
  • II. The First Foreshadowings of Marginal-Cost Price-Output Theory, 1885 to 1923
  • III. Marshall’s Tax-Subsidy Proposal
  • IV. The First Statements of the Theory of Marginal-Cost Control – Socialist Price-Output Theory from 1933 to 1939
  • V. The Application of Marginal-Cost Price-Output Theory to Railroad and Public Utility Rate Theory, 1938 to 1947
  • VI. The Development of Marginal-Cost Price-Output Theory as a General Price-Output Theory, 1942 to 1950
  • Part Two. A Restatement of Marginal-Cost Price-Output Theory
  • VII. The Pure Theory of Marginal-Cost Price-Output Control
  • VIII. The Pure Theory of Optimum Investment in Fixed Capital
  • IX. Methods of Financing Ideal Deficits
  • X. The Application of Marginal-Cost Price-Output Theory
  • XI. The General Economic Effects of Ideal Price-Output Control and Investment
  • Bibliography
  • Index