The nature of price theory / H. H. Liebhafsky.

List of figures, xviii -- Part I. Introduction and basic concepts -- 1. Introduction, 3 -- 2. Some basic general concepts, 21 -- 3, basic quantitative concepts and relationships, 32 -- Part II. Elementary demand theory -- 4. The Marshallian theory of demand, 59 -- 5. Indifference curve analysis, 83 -- Part III. Production and costs -- 6. The "laws of return"; the theory of production, 119 -- 7. Cost of production, 151 -- Part IV. The product market -- 8. Supply; the determination of market price, 195 -- 9. The firm and industry under perfect competition, 216 -- 10. Monopoly; monopsony; bilateral bargaining, 247 -- 11. Conditions of monopoly and competition "intermingled", 269 Part V. The factor market -- 12. The marginal productivity theory , 303 -- 13. Wages, 333 -- 14. Economic rent, 353 -- 15. Interest and profits, 365 -- Part VI. Static welfare economics -- 16. Paretian optimality and neoclassical welfare analyses, 391 -- Part VII. Linear programming -- 17. Basic concepts of linear programming, 413 -- Part VIII. Beyond static price theory -- 18. Profits and progress: defenses and criticisms of price Theory, 449 -- Appendices. Advanced demand theory -- A. An arithmetical and graphical illustration or Slutsky's Basic demand equations, 473 -- B. The consumer's surplus, 503 -- C. Alternative explanations and econometric studies, 515 -- D. Index numbers and demand theory, 532 -- Index, 547.