Economic analysis / Kenneth E. Boulding.

Preface to the first edition, xv -- Preface to the third edition, xix -- Part I. Demand and supply -- 1. The Task and Method of Economic Analysis, 3 -- 2. Specialization and exchange: the task of economic organization, 15 -- 3. Some applications of the elementary theory of exchange, 31 -- 4. Price determination in perfectly competitive markets, 45 -- 5. Supply and demand in a competitive market, 63 -- 6. Some applications of supply and demand analysis, 81 -- 7. Production and consumption. The concept of "normal" price, 107 -- 8. Some further applications of supply and demand analysis, 132 -- 9. The principle of equal advantage, 168 -- 10. Some applications of the principle of equal advantage, 182 -- 11. The elementary theory of distribution, 197 -- 12. Some further applications, 217 -- Part II. Macroeconomics -- 13. Economic aggregates and averages, 237 -- 14. The measurement of economic aggregates, 257 -- 15. Macroeconomic models: models of production and consumption, 287 -- 16. Macroeconomic models: models of monetary circulation and exchange, 308 -- 17. The financial system, 332 -- 18. Saving and interest, 359 -- 19. International economic relations, 386 -- 20. Dynamic macroeconomic models, 416 -- 21. Economic fluctuations and growth, 443 -- 22. The impact of government, 467 -- Part III. Elements of the marginal analysis -- 23. The nature of business enterprise, 491 -- 24. Forms of business organization, 505 -- 25. General principles of the marginal analysis: transformation functions, 520 -- 26. The profit-making process and the theory of maximization, 544 -- 27. The derivation of supply curves from cost curves, 563 -- 28. Production functions and cost functions, 585 -- 29. Problems in the theory of monopoly, 605 -- 30. Imperfect competition, 628 -- 31. Applications of the marginal analysis: the regulation of competition and monopoly, 651 -- 32. The elementary theory of consumption, 680 -- 33. Equilibrium, process, and policy, 702 -- Part IV. More advanced studies in analytical techniques -- 34. Three-variable analysis of a firm, 733 -- 35. Three-variable analysis of a firm (continued), 761 -- 36. Indifference curves and the theory of optimum choice, 787 -- 37. Further applications of indifference curve analysis, 810 -- 38. Time, production, and valuation, 839 -- 39. The equilibrium of an enterprise in time, 862 -- Appendix-the literature of economics, 884 -- Index, 897.