Knut Wicksell : Selected Essays in Economics, Volume 2

ISBN-13: 9780415685535 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 260 str.

Bo Sandelin

Opis

This text, along with its predecessor, makes most of Wicksell's most important contributions accessible to English speaking readers. The essays collected here focus on money and price theory and include Wicksell's book reviews of Leon Walrus, Ludwig von Mises and John Bates Clark.

Spis treści

Part 4 MONEY AND PRICES; Chapter 14 ON USURY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF ECONOMIC THEORY; Chapter 15 THE MONETARY PROBLEMS OF THE FUTURE; Chapter 16 STABILIZING THE VALUE OF MONEY; Chapter 17 THE MONEY RATE OF INTEREST AND COMMODITY PRICES; Chapter 18 THE REGULATION OF THE VALUE OF MONEY; Chapter 19 THE GOLD RESERVE OF THE RIKSBANK; Chapter 20 THE RATE OF EXCHANGE AND THE BANK RATE; Chapter 21 THE SCANDINAVIAN MONETARY SYSTEM AFTER THE {FIRST WORLD} WAR; Part 5 POPULATION; Chapter 22 A FEW REMARKS ON THE CHIEF CAUSE OF SOCIAL MISFORTUNES AND THE BEST MEANS TO REMEDY THEM, WITH Part ICULAR REFERENCE TO DRUNKENNESS; Chapter 23 OVERPRODUCTION — OR OVERPOPULATION?; Chapter 24 CAN A COUNTRY BECOME UNDERPOPULATED?; Chapter 25 FROM THE EMIGRATION INQUIRY,APPENDIX 18; Part 6 BOOK REVIEWS; Chapter 26 LÉON WALRAS, ÉTUDES D'ÉCONOMIE SOCIALE{STUDIES IN SOCIAL ECONOMY}: THÉORIE DE LA RÉPart ITION DE LA RICHESSE SOCIALE; Chapter 27 LÉON WALRAS, ÉTUDES D'ÉCONOMIE POLITIQUE APPLIQUÉE{STUDIES IN APPLIED ECONOMICS}: THÉORIE DE LA PRODUCTION DE LA RICHESSE SOCIALE; Chapter 28 CHARLES GIDE, NATIONALEKONOMIENS GRUNDDRAG{THE PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS}; Chapter 29 FERNANDO LINDERBERG, KARL MARX OG DEN HISTORISKE SOCIALISME{KARL MARX AND HISTORICAL SOCIALISM}; Chapter 30 THE SHIFTING AND INCIDENCE OF TAXATION; Chapter 31 JOHN BATES CLARK, THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH: A THEORY OF WAGES, INTEREST AND PROFITS,and JOHN A. HOBSON, THE ECONOMICS OF DISTRIBUTION; Chapter 32 GEORG FRIEDRICH KNAPP, DIE STAATLICHE THEORIE DESGELDES{THE STATE THEORY OF MONEY}; Chapter 33 LUDWIG VON MISES, THEORIE DES GELDES UND DER UMLAUFSMITTEL{THE THEORY OF MONEY AND CREDIT}; Chapter 34 KARL HELFFERICH, DEUTSCHLANDS VOLKSWOHLSTAND 1888–1913{GERMANY'S NATIONAL WEALTH 1888–1913}; Chapter 35 GOETZ BRIEFS, UNTERSUCHUNGEN ZUR KLASSISCHEN NATIONALOKONOMIE, MIT BESONDERER BERÜCKSICHTIGUNG DES PROBLEMS DER DURCHSCHNITTSPROFITRATE{STUDIES IN CLASSICAL ECONOMICS, WITH Part ICULAR ATTENTION TO THE PROBLEM OF THE AVERAGE RATE OF PROF

O autorze

Bo Sandelin is affiliated to the University of Gothenburg. He has published on the economics of housing, the economics of crime, capital theory and the history of economic thought, especially Wicksell's capital theory. He has published several books in Sweden, and edited The History of Swedish Economic Thought (Routledge, 1991).