The Value of MoneyAnderson, Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester)
General
The Value of Money
Anderson, Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester)
Money
But not differentiated on basis of states of consciousness
of individual immediately moved by them, because many
minds in organic interplay involved 28-33
Economic social value (a) of consumers' goods and services:
"utility" and scarcity; "marginal utility"; social
explanation of marginal utility; marginal utilities the
conscious _focus_ of economic values of consumers' goods;
but only minor part of these values; individuals, classes
and institutions heavily weighted by legal, moral, and
other social values, in power over economic values of
consumers' goods 33-38
Economic social value (b) of labor, land, stocks, bonds,
"good will," etc.; based only in part on values of
consumers' goods; partially independent, directly
influenced by contagion, and centers of power and
prestige 38-41
Pragmatic character of theory 41-43
Relation of social values to individual values 43-45
CHAPTER II
SUPPLY AND DEMAND, AND THE VALUE OF MONEY
_Hiatus_ between general theory of value and theory of value
of money 46-47
Partly because former has been developed by different writers
from those who have developed latter 47-49
But chiefly because supply and demand, cost of production,
etc., _assume_ fixed value of money, and are theories of
_price_, rather than _value_ 49
Supply and demand useful but superficial formula, common
property of many value theories 49-50
Crude and unanalyzed in Smith and Ricardo; first made precise
by J. S. Mill, who gives essentials of modern doctrine 49-51
Boehm-Bawerk's pseudo-psychology spoils Mill's clean-cut
doctrine 51-52
Supply and demand assumes fixed _value_ of money-unit, and
hence inapplicable to money itself 52-56
But supply and demand does _not_ assume fixed _price-level_ 56-57
Cairnes _vs._ Mill 57-58
Mill's unsuccessful effort to apply supply and demand to
money 59-62
Walker's attempt 62
Supply and demand in the "money market" 62-63
Chapter III
COST OF PRODUCTION AND THE VALUE OF MONEY
Types of cost theory: modern cost doctrine is "money costs"
doctrine, and inapplicable to value of money 64
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