The social framework of the american economy : an introduction to economics / Sir John Richard Hicks, Albert Gailord Hart, James W. Ford.

Introductory Chapter. Economic facts and economic theory, 3 -- Part I. The productive process, 17 -- I. Production and exchange, 17 -- II. Goods and services, 27 -- III. Consumption and investment, 36 -- Part II. The factors of production-labor, 47 -- IV. Population and its history, 47 -- V. The economics of population, 61 -- VI. The specialization of labor, 70 -- VII. The effort of labor, 70 -- Part III. The factors of production-capital, 91 -- VIII. Capital goods and their varieties, 91 -- IX. Private property in capital, 104 -- X. The national capital, 104 -- Part IV. The social product, 133 -- XI. The social product and the social income, 133 -- XII. Foreign payments and the national income, 154 -- XIII. The state and the national income, 173 -- XIV. The national income of the United States in, 1947 -- XV. The national income in real terms-index numbers, 198 -- XVI. National income and economic progress, 209 -- XVII. The inequality of incomes, 219 -- XVIII. Further horizons, 235 -- Part V. Supplementary chapters on social accounting, 241 -- XIX. The social-accounting system, 241 -- XX. The social accounts of the United Kingdom, 258 -- XXI. 1938 and 1949, 270 -- Appendix, 291 -- Index, 303.