Book:Alec Cairncross/Introduction to Economics/Second Edition

Alec Cairncross: Introduction to Economics (New and Enlarged Edition)

Published $\text {1955}$, Butterworth & Co.

Subject Matter

• Economics

Contents

Preface

Part I: Introductory

1 The Economic Problem

2 Some Preliminary Conceptions

3 The Existing Resources: The Factors or Agents of Production

4 The National Economy

Part II: The Structure of Industry

5 Specialisation: (1) Division of Labour

6 Specialisation: (2) Localisation of Industry

7 Large-Scale Production

8 Small-Scale Production

9 The Finance of Large-Scale Production

10 The Growth of Large-Scale Production

Part III: Supply and Demand

11 The Existing Order: a Preliminary Survey

12 The Price Mechanism

13 Supply and Demand

14 Demand

15 Supply: Cost and Price

16 Monopoly and Competition

17 Supply: Cost in Relation to Output

18 Supply: Cost in Relation to Time

19 Inter-relationships of Supply and Demand

20 Social Aspects of Pricing

Part IV: The Distribution of Income

21 The Distribution of Income

22 Wages

23 Interest and Profit

Part V: International Trade

24 The Theory of International Trade

Part VI: Money and Employment

25 Money

26 Changes in the Value of Money

27 The Causes of Monetary Instability

28 The Demand for Money

29 The Supply of Money: (1) Banking Operations

30 The Supply of Money: (2) The Creation of Credit

31 Money and Foreign Exchange

32 Unemployment and the Trade Cycle

Part VII The State and the Economic Order

33 The Rise and Decline of Laissez-Faire

34 The Rôle of the State

(1) The State and Inequality

(2) State Control of Industry

(3) The State and Employment

25 The State and Economic Planning

Index