Principles of Political Economy: Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy — John Shaqi
Principles of Political Economy: Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political EconomyMill, John Stuart
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Principles of Political Economy: Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy
Mill, John Stuart
Economics
not include Wages of Superintendence.
§ 2. The Minimum of Profits; what produces Variations in the Amount
of Profits.
§ 3. General Tendency of Profits to an Equality.
§ 4. The Cause of the Existence of any Profit; the Advances of
Capitalists consist of Wages of Labor.
§ 5. The Rate of Profit depends on the Cost of Labor.
Chapter VI. Of Rent.
§ 1. Rent the Effect of a Natural Monopoly.
§ 2. No Land can pay Rent except Land of such Quality or Situation
as exists in less Quantity than the Demand.
§ 3. The Rent of Land is the Excess of its Return above the Return
to the worst Land in Cultivation.
§ 4. —Or to the Capital employed in the least advantageous
Circumstances.
§ 5. Opposing Views of the Law of Rent.
§ 6. Rent does not enter into the Cost of Production of Agricultural
Produce.
Book III. Exchange.
Chapter I. Of Value.
§ 1. Definitions of Value in Use, Exchange Value, and Price.
§ 2. Conditions of Value: Utility, Difficulty of Attainment, and
Transferableness.
§ 3. Commodities limited in Quantity by the law of Demand and
Supply: General working of this Law.
§ 4. Miscellaneous Cases falling under this Law.
§ 5. Commodities which are Susceptible of Indefinite Multiplication
without Increase of Cost. Law of their Value Cost of Production.
§ 6. The Value of these Commodities confirm, in the long run, to
their Cost of Production through the operation of Demand and Supply.
Chapter II. Ultimate Analysis Of Cost Of Production.
§ 1. Of Labor, the principal Element in Cost of Production.
§ 2. Wages affect Values, only if different in different
employments; “non-competing groups.”
§ 3. Profits an element in Cost of Production.
§ 4. Cost of Production properly represented by sacrifice, or cost,
to the Laborer as well as to the Capitalist; the relation of this
conception to the Cost of Labor.
§ 5. When profits vary from Employment to Employment, or are spread
over unequal lengths of Time, they affect Values accordingly.
§ 6. Occasional Elements in Cost of Production; taxes and
ground-rent.
Chapter III. Of Rent, In Its Relation To Value.
§ 1. Commodities which are susceptible of indefinite Multiplication,
but not without increase of Cost. Law of their Value, Cost of
Production in the most unfavorable existing circumstances.
§ 2. Such commodities, when Produced in circumstances more
favorable, yield a Rent equal to the difference of Cost.
§ 3. Rent of Mines and Fisheries and ground-rent of Buildings, and
cases of gain analogous to Rent.
§ 4. _Résumé_ of the laws of value of each of the three classes of
commodities.
Chapter IV. Of Money.
§ 1. The three functions of Money—a Common Denominator of Value, a
Medium of Exchange, a “Standard of Value”.
§ 2.
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