Marginal - Cost Price -Output Control: A Critical History and Restatement of the Theory

Burnham Putnam Beckwith

Published by Columbia University Press 1955

Marginal - Cost Price -Output Control

A Critical History and Restatement of the Theory

Burnham Putnam Beckwith

https://doi.org/10.7312/beck91922

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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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
I. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
A Note on Terminology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
III. Marshall’s Tax-Subsidy Proposal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
IV. The First Statements of the Theory of Marginal-Cost Control – Socialist Price-Output Theory from 1933 to 1939 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
V. The Application of Marginal-Cost Price-Output Theory to Railroad and Public Utility Rate Theory, 1938 to 1947 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
VI. The Development of Marginal-Cost Price-Output Theory as a General Price-Output Theory, 1942 to 1950 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Part Two. A Restatement of Marginal-Cost Price-Output Theory
VII. The Pure Theory of Marginal-Cost Price-Output Control Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
VIII. The Pure Theory of Optimum Investment in Fixed Capital Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
IX. Methods of Financing Ideal Deficits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
X. The Application of Marginal-Cost Price-Output Theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
XI. The General Economic Effects of Ideal Price-Output Control and Investment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Copyright year: 1955
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 284

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Published: May 6, 2019
ISBN: 9780231886147