The Distribution of Wealth: A Theory of Wages, Interest and Profits [Paperback]

John Bates Clark (Author)

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Publication Date: June 26, 2001

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1908 edition by the Macmillan Company, New York.

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From the Table of Contents:

I. Issues that depend on Distribution

II. The Place of Distribution within the Traditional Divisions ofEconomics

III. The Place of Distribution within the Natural Divisions of Economics

IV. The Basis of Distribution in Universal Economic Laws

V. Actual Distribution the Result of Social Organization

VI. Effects of Social Progress

VII. Wages in a Static State the Specific Product of Labor

VIII. How the Specific Product of Labor may be distinguished

IX. Capital and Capital-Goods Contrasted

X. Kinds of Capital and of Capital-Goods

XI. The Productivity of Social Labor Dependent on its Quantitative Relation to Capital

XII. Final Productivity the Regulator of Both Wages and Interest

XIII. The Products of Labor and Capital, as measured by the Formula of Rent

XIV. The Earnings of Industrial Groups

XV. The Marginal Efficiency of Consumers' Wealth the Basis of Group Distribution

XVI. How the Marginal Efficiency of Consumers' Wealth is Measured

XVII. How the Efficiency of Final Increments of Producers' Wealth is Tested

XVIII. The Growth of Capital by Qualitative Increments

XIX. The Mode of Apportioning Labor and Capital among the Industrial Groups

XX. Production and Consumption Synchronized by Rightly Apportioned Capital

XXI. The Theory of Economic Causation

XXII. The Law of Economic Causation applied to the Products of Concrete Instruments

XXIII. The Relation of All Rents to Value and thus to Group Distribution

XXIV. The Unit for Measuring Industrial Agents and their Products

XXV. Static Standards in a Dynamic Society

XXVI. Proximate Static Standards Footnotes

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Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation (June 26, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402170084
• ISBN-13: 978-1402170089
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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