John Rae, political economist : an account of his life and a compilation of his main writings / Volume II, Statement of some new principles on the subject of political economy / by John Rae.

Volume II is a reprint of Rae's Statement of New Principles on the Subject of Political Economy, originally published in1834. With the reissue of this book, modern students of economics will be better able to appreciate Rae's fundamental contribution to the development of economic thought,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rae, John, 1796-1872
Otros Autores: James, R. Warren
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1965.
Colección:Heritage.
Temas:
Economics.
Économie politique.
economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • General Introduction
  • BOOK I. Individual and National Interests are not Identical
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER I. Of the identity of individual and national interests considered as a simple principle
  • CHAPTER II. Of the Identity of Individual and National Interests Considered as a Theoretical Principle
  • BOOK II. Of the Nature of Stock and of the laws governing its increase and diminution
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER I. It is characteristic of man to provide for the wants of the future, by the formation of instruments.
  • And his power to make this provision, is measured, by the extent and accuracy of his knowledge of the course of natural eventsCHAPTER II. Of the circumstances common to all instruments, and of those proper to some
  • CHAPTER III. Of certain circumstances arising from the Institution of Society
  • CHAPTER IV. Every instrument may be arranged in some part of a series, of which the orders are determined, by the proportions existing between the labor expended in the formation of instruments, the capacity given to them, and the time elapsing from the period of formation to that of exhaustionCHAPTER V. Circumstances determining the amount of instruments formed
  • CHAPTER VI. Of the circumstances which determine the strength of the effective desire of accumulation
  • CHAPTER VII. Of some of the phenomena arising from the different degrees of strength of the effective desire of accumulation in different societiesCHAPTER VIII. Of the division of employments, and of other phenomena produced by efforts to accelerate the exhaustion of instruments
  • CHAPTER IX. Of the effects resulting from diversities of strength in the accumulative principle, in members of the same society
  • CHAPTER X. Of the causes of the progress of invention, and of the effects arising from it
  • CHAPTER XI. Of Luxury
  • PART I
  • PART II
  • CHAPTER XII. Of Exchanges between different CommunitiesCHAPTER XIII. Of Waste
  • CHAPTER XIV. Of the combined operation of the causes investigated in the preceding chapters
  • CHAPTER XV. Of the Wealth of Nations as a branch of the Philosophy of Induction
  • APPENDIX TO BOOK II. Of the principle of the division of labor
  • BOOK III. Of the operations of the legislator on National Stock
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER I. Of the operations of the legislator in bringing the arts of Foreign Countries to his own
  • CHAPTER II. Of the operations of the legislator on luxuries

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