Economic analysis / Kenneth E. Boulding.

VOLUMEN I. Microeconomics -- Preface to the first edition, xix -- Preface to the fourth edition, xxiii -- Part I. Elementary price theory -- 1. The task and methods of economic analysis, 3 -- 2. Exchange as the organizer of specialization, 15 -- 3. Some applications of the elementary theory of exchange, 33 -- 4. An elementary model of the price system, 45 -- 5. Applications of the elementary model: economic development, 70 -- 6. Allocation and distribution: the principle of equal advantage, 86 -- 7. The theory of market price in perfectly competitive markets, 107 -- 8. Supply and demand in a competitive market, 124 -- 9. Some applications of the theory of market price, 144 -- 10. The theory of normal price, 168 -- 11. Applications of supply and demand analysis, 196 -- 12. Further applications of supply and demand analysis, 220 -- 13. The prices of factors of production, 246 -- 14. The dynamics of demand and supply, 271 -- Part II. The theory of economic behavior, 299 -- 15. The economic organization, 301 -- 16. The firm as an economic organization, 324 -- 17. The theory of the trading firm, 346 -- 18. The manufacturing firm, 375 -- 19. The derivation of supply curves from cost curves, 402 -- 20. Production functions with one variable input, 423 -- 21. Further problems in the theory of monopoly, 445 -- 22. Imperfect competition, 468 -- 23. Applications of the marginal analysis: the regulation of competition and monopoly, 492 -- 24. The elementary theory of household decisions, 520 -- 25. Three-variable analysis of a firm, 543 -- 26. Three-variable analysis (continued), 572 -- 27. Indifference curves and the theory of optimum choice, 604 -- 28. Applications of indifference curve analysis: welfare economics, 627 -- 29. Capital, time, and valuation, 650 -- 30. Time in economic decisions, 672 -- Appendix: the literature of economics, 697 -- Index, 711.