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First published 1892

Political Economy

by Francis A. Walker

London: Macmillan, 1892 (3rd revised and enlarged ed.); Online Library of Liberty edition371 pages

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Author
Francis A. Walker
First published
1892
Format
PDF and EPUB
Pages
371
Publisher
London: Macmillan, 1892 (3rd revised and enlarged ed.); Online Library of Liberty edition
License
Public domain by publication date.

Francis A. Walker's economics textbook, first published in 1883 and here in the revised 1892 edition. It covers production, exchange, distribution, money, and taxation, and includes Walker's own theories of profits as the return to entrepreneurial ability and his criticism of the wages-fund doctrine. It was a leading American college text in the later nineteenth century.

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47 chapters · 197,900 words · free to read here

  1. PART I.: CHARACTER AND LOGICAL METHOD OF POLITICAL ECONOMY.
  2. CHAPTER I.: LAND AND NATURAL AGENTS.
  3. CHAPTER II.: LABOR.
  4. CHAPTER III.: CAPITAL: ITS ORIGIN AND OFFICE.
  5. CHAPTER IV.: THE PRODUCTIVE CAPABILITY OF A COMMUNITY.
  6. CHAPTER I.: THE THEORY OF VALUE.
  7. CHAPTER II.: THE THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES.
  8. CHAPTER III.: MONEY AND ITS VALUE.
  9. CHAPTER IV.: MONEY AND ITS VALUE—CONTINUED—DEBASED COIN: SEIGNIORAGE.
  10. CHAPTER V.: INCONVERTIBLE PAPER MONEY.
  11. CHAPTER VI.: BANK MONEY.
  12. CHAPTER VII.: THE REACTION OF EXCHANGE UPON PRODUCTION.
  13. CHAPTER I.: THE PARTIES TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH.
  14. CHAPTER II.: RENT.
  15. CHAPTER III.: INTEREST.
  16. CHAPTER IV.: PROFITS.
  17. CHAPTER V.: WAGES.
  18. THE CONDITIONS OF THE LABORING CLASS AS AFFECTED BY IMPERFECT COMPETITION.
  19. CHAPTER VII.: TWO OTHER SHARES IN DISTRIBUTION.
  20. CHAPTER VIII.: THE REACTION OF DISTRIBUTION UPON PRODUCTION.
  21. CHAPTER I.: SUBSISTENCE: POPULATION.
  22. CHAPTER II.: THE APPEARANCE OF NEW ECONOMIC WANTS.
  23. CHAPTER III.: CONSUMPTION: THE DYNAMICS OF WEALTH.
  24. PART VI.: SOME APPLICATIONS OF ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES.
  25. I.: usury laws.
  26. II.: industrial co-operation.
  27. III.: political money.
  28. IV.: pauperism.
  29. V.: the doctrine of the wage-fund.
  30. VI.: the multiple or tabular standard of deferred payments.
  31. VII.: trade unions and strikes.
  32. VIII.: the knights of labor.
  33. IX.: attacks on the doctrine of rent.
  34. X.: the nationalization of the land.
  35. mr. henry george's crusade.
  36. XI.: the banking functions.
  37. XII.: the present banking system of the united states.
  38. XIII.: foreign exchanges.
  39. XIV.: bi-metallism.
  40. XV.: the revenue of the state.
  41. XVI.: the principles of taxation.
  42. XVII.: protection vs. freedom of production.
  43. XVIII.: socialism.
  44. INDEX.
  45. About Liberty Fund
  46. The Online Library of Liberty
  47. Copyright Information

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