INDEX
Abstinence, [339] et seq.
Accumulation, the law of, Ch. [XX].
Altruism, [39].
Arbitration, [469], Ch. [XXVI];
as affected by monopoly, [483] et seq.;
compulsory, [489]-[490], [497]-[498], [502];
voluntary, [493] et seq.
Birth rate, as affected by economic conditions, [328] et seq.
Böhm-Bawerk, [17 note], [33].
Boycott, Ch. [XXVII].
Ca'-canny, [509] et seq.
Capital, [19], [24]-[26], [31]-[33];
as affected by improvements in method, Ch. [XVIII];
as originating in profits, [230], [301];
contrasted with capital goods, [28]-[34];
exportation of, [230]-[235];
ground and auxiliary, [166];
mobility of, [37]-[38], [127]-[128], [151]-[152];
primitive, [1]-[2];
rent of, [170]-[171];
sources of, [353] et seq.;
waste of, [307] et seq.
Capital, accumulation of, Ch. [XX];
as affected by monopoly, [355]-[357];
as affected by standards of living, [342] et seq.
Capital, effects of increase of, [203]-[204];
economic structure of society, [246]-[248];
on interest, [319]-[320];
on wages, [316] et seq.
Capital goods, [16], [17], [19 note];
active, [20] et seq.;
active and passive, [186]-[187];
contrasted with capital, [28]-[34];
passive, [20] et seq.
Capitalist, [84]-[85], [117].
Capitalization of railways, proper basis of, [445]-[449].
Caste, effect on increase of population, [332];
effect on values, [268].
Centralization of production, [200]-[201], [289].
Collective bargaining, [467] et seq.
Combination, railway, [419] et seq., [433] et seq.
Commerce, effect on diffusion of methods, [229];
effect on emigration and immigration, [229]-[230].
Competition, [67], [75]-[77], [note]; [143]-[150], [198] et seq.;
effect on inventions, [362] et seq.;
effect on labor organizations, [488]-[490];
in transportation, [406], [419]-[420], [428] et seq.;
relation to progress, [533]-[534].
Competition of markets, effect on railway charges, [403] et seq.
Competition, potential, as a regulator of monopolies, [380] et seq.
Conciliation, [490] et seq.
Consolidation, [382]-[383], [390] et seq., [534] et seq., [558]-[559];
effect on strikes, [464] et seq.;
of railways, [396]-[397], [419] et seq.
Consumers' goods, [25]-[26], [34].
Consumers' rent, [172 note], [173].
Consumers' surplus, [105].
Consumption, [24]-[25], [note];
as affected by improvements in methods, [273]-[274];
by increased productive power, [305]-[306];
by increase of individual incomes, [292];
diversification of, [62]-[63], [206]-[207].
Corporations, [376] et seq.
Cost, [130];
contrasted with utility, [43]-[44];
elements of, [115]-[116];
fixed and variable, [412] et seq.;
in static state, [132]-[133];
law of increasing, [44]-[47];
lowest, as determinant of standard price, [263]-[264];
measurement of, [47]-[49], [209];
relation to final utility, [53]-[54];
relation to incomes, [126];
relation to price, [114]-[115];
specific, [45].
Demand and supply, [93]-[94], [96].
Demand, reciprocal, [292].
Demand, relation to final utility, [97].
Diminishing productivity, [148]-[149];
of labor, [134] et seq.
Diminishing returns, [56];
in agriculture, [165]-[166], [398] et seq.;
in manufactures, [398]-[399].
Diminishing utility, law of, [98].
Distribution, [60];
contrasted with production, Ch. [X];
functional and personal, [89]-[91];
group, [92]-[93].
Division of labor, [61] et seq.
"Dumping," [526].
Dynamic influences, [130]-[132], [195] et seq.
Dynamics, Ch. [XII].
Economics, [1] et seq., [61].
Education, effect on increase of population, [330]-[331].
Effective utility, [8 note], [54 note].
Eight-hour movement, [514]-[516].
Entrepreneur, [83] et seq.; [117] et seq.; [153] et seq.;
in dynamic state, [123]-[124];
in static state, [121]-[122].
Exchange, [63]-[64].
Factory legislation, effect on increase of population, [331]-[332].
Final productivity, [139] et seq., [156]-[157].
Final utility, [8 note], [51 note], [54 note], [98]-[99];
relation to cost, [53]-[54];
relation to demand, [97].
Free coinage, [538]-[539].
Free trade, arguments for, [231], [518]-[519].
Friction, economic, [373].
Future, undervaluation of, [345] et seq.
Giddings, F. H., [381].
Government ownership, [378], [383]-[385].
Groups, economic, [64] et seq.
Immigrants, disadvantages of, [245] et seq.
Improvements in methods, [204], [212];
as source of new capital, [230];
effect on capital, Ch. [XVIII];
effect on labor, [312] et seq.;
effect on quality of goods, [273]-[274];
in backward regions, [235]-[236].
Increasing returns, [398]-[401].
Inflation, effects of, [539] et seq.
Interest, [85], Ch. [IX];
as affected by changes in the value of money, [543] et seq.;
as affected by increase of capital, [319]-[320];
rate of, effect on the accumulation of capital, [339] et seq.;
real and loan, [547] et seq.;
relation to rent, [182]-[184];
static, [224]-[225].
Inventions, [204], Chs. [XVI], [XVII];
as affected by competition, [362] et seq.;
as affected by monopoly, [362] et seq.;
conditions giving rise to, Ch. [XXI];
effect on capital, Ch. [XVIII];
on economic structure of society, [249] et seq.;
on labor, [254]-[255];
effects of a series of, [290] et seq.
Kartel, [392].
Labor, [35];
as a measure of cost, [209];
as affected by improvements in method, [312] et seq.;
classification of, [13]-[15];
definition of, [9]-[10], [82]-[85];
diminishing productivity of, [134] et seq.;
division of, [61] et seq.;
managerial, [116]-[117];
mobility of, [127]-[128], [133]-[134];
monopoly, [471] et seq., [504];
productivity of, [17]-[18], [133] et seq.;
protective, [10]-[11];
rent of, [171]-[172].
Labor organization, Ch. [XXV].
Labor-saving devices, Chs. [XVI], [XVII];
effect on economic
structure of society, [249] et seq.;
effect on labor, [254]-[255].
Laissez-faire, [384]-[385], [390].
Land, [9], [36]-[37], Ch. [XI];
contrasted with artificial capital goods, [178]-[179], [188]-[190].
Machinery, [72]-[73].
Malthus, [321] et seq.
Margin of cultivation, [165] et seq.
Marginal utility, [51 note].
Market, [95 note].
Market price, [93]-[94].
Mill, J. S., [220 note], [257].
Money, [29]-[30]; Ch. [XXIX].
Monopoly, [201], [559]-[560];
as affected by patents, [367]-[368];
as limiting employment, [297]-[298];
effect on accumulation, [355]-[357];
on inventions, [362]-[363];
on progress, Ch. [XXII];
on standard of living, [323];
government ownership of, [378], [383]-[385];
in transportation, [435] et seq.;
inventor's, [360] et seq.;
labor, [456], [462], [467], [471] et seq., [504];
nature of, [380];
public character of, [389];
relation to arbitration, [483] et seq.;
relation to protection, [525] et seq.;
relation to railway discrimination, [396]-[397];
restricted by potential competition, [380] et seq.
Monopoly price, as affected by increase of wages, [479]-[480].
Organization of industry, [205], [318]-[319], [368] et seq.
Organization of labor, Ch. [XXV].
Paper Money, [552]-[554].
Patents, [265]-[266];
abuse of, [361];
as a means of curbing monopolies, [367]-[368];
justification, [360]-[361].
Patten, S. N., [207 note].
Political Economy, [3 note], [61].
Pool, [392].
Population, as affected by factory legislation, [331];
as affected by increase of wealth, [333];
as affected by rise of wages, [335] et seq.;
distribution of, [215] et seq.;
effect of increase of, [203], [244] et seq., [315] et seq.;
law of, Ch. [XIX].
Population, density of, [215]-[216];
effect on industry, [237] et seq.;
effect on wages, [241]-[243].
Population, increase of, as affected by caste, [332];
by education, [330]-[331];
by standard of living, [324] et seq.
Price, [97];
as affected by inflation, [539] et seq.;
determination of, [93]-[96];
equalization of, [98]-[100];
market, [93]-[94];
monopoly, [479]-[480];
normal, [114], [120]-[121];
of complex goods, [100] et seq.;
relation to cost, [114];
standard, determined by lowest cost, [263]-[264], [285]-[288];
static, [202]-[203], [224].
Production, contrasted with distribution, Ch. [V];
requisites of, [15]-[16].
Productivity, [42]-[43];
as basis for arbitration awards, [475] et seq.;
final, [139] et seq., [148]-[149], [157];
measurement of, [55]-[60].
Profit, [77 note], [85] et seq., [119]-[122] [note], [129 note], [373];
as affected by inflation, [539] et seq.;
as source of capital, [301], [354]-[355];
in static state, [87].
Protection, Ch. [XXVIII], [560];
argument for, [520] et seq.;
relation to monopoly, [525] et seq.
Rae, John, [17 note].
Railway capitalization, proper basis of, [446]-[450].
Railway charges, Ch. [XXIV];
as affected by competition of markets, [403] et seq.;
limits of, [403] et seq.;
state regulation of, [439] et seq.
Railway consolidation, [396]-[397], [419] et seq.
Railway discriminations, as creating monopolies, [393]-[394], [396], [420] et seq.
Rent, Ch. [X];
as differential product, [163]-[165];
as product of land, [162]-[163];
consumers', [172-173 note];
gross and net, [180]-[183];
of capital, [170]-[171];
of concrete instruments, [174]-[177];
of labor, [171]-[172];
relation to interest, [182]-[184];
relation to price, [191]-[194];
traditional formula, [160]-[162];
universality of principle, [177]-[178].
Ricardo, [121], [160], [179].
Risk, [122], [123 note], [214].
Social Economics, [3 note], [61].
Socialism, [378], [384]-[386], [395], [397].
Socialistic state, group organization in, [71].
Specific utility, [8 note].
Standard of living, [322] et seq., [342] et seq.
Static state, [132]-[133].
Strike, sympathetic, [505].
Strikes, effectiveness under varying conditions, [462] et seq.
Substitution, [267] et seq.
Supply and demand, [93]-[97].
Supply, normal, [114].
Surplus, consumers', [105].
Tariff, relation to trusts, [528] et seq.
Trade union, power of, under varying conditions, [462] et seq.;
restriction of membership, [503]-[504];
restriction of output, [509] et seq.
Transportation, Chs. [XXIII], [XXIV];
as affected by diminishing returns in agriculture, [398] et seq.;
monopoly in, [435] et seq.
Trusts, [201], [369]-[371], [391]-[392];
as affected by railway discriminations, [393]-[394];
methods of stifling competition, [394]-[395], [527]-[528];
relation to tariff, [528] et seq.
Tuttle, C. A., [34 note].
Union label, [506] et seq.
Utility, absolute, [54 note];
contrasted with cost, [43]-[44];
diminishing, [98];
effective, [54 note];
elementary, [11]-[12];
final, [51 note], [54 note], [97]-[98];
form, [12];
marginal, [51 note];
measurement of, [40] et seq.;
of producers' goods, [42]-[43];
place, [12]-[13];
varieties of, [7]-[8].
Value, [40]-[42], [99]-[101];
affected by caste, [268];
in primitive conditions, [50]-[51];
natural, [94]-[95];
normal, Ch. [VII];
of complex goods, [100] et seq.;
static, [124]-[125], [202]-[203].
Value of service principle, [405] et seq.
Violence in labor disputes, [457] et seq.
Wages, Ch. [VIII], [85], [86];
as affected by improved methods, [299]-[300];
as affected by improved organization of industry, [318]-[319];
as affected by increase of capital, [316] et seq.;
as affected by inferior bargaining power of labor, [452];
as affected by organization of labor, Ch. [XXV];
increase of, effect on monopoly price, [479]-[480];
law of, [143] et seq.;
rise of, effect on monopoly, [335] et seq.;
static, [224]-[225].
"Waiting," [187]-[188].
Wants, changes in, [206];
elasticity of, relation to improvements in methods, [267] et seq.
Wealth, [5]-[9];
increase of, effect on population, [333].
Webb, Sidney & Beatrice, [357].
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