Pricing and equilibrium : an introduction to static and dynamic analysis / by Erich Schneider ; translated from the original german by T. W. Hutghison.

Foreword, ix -- Introduction, xi -- Chapter I. The economic plan of the household, 1 -- I. The determinants of the household's consumption plan, 1 -- 2. The quantitative relationships between demand, tastes, prices, and total consumption-spending, 4 -- 3. The individual demand function and the indifference map of the household, 8 -- 4. Elasticity of demand in relation to price and income, 20 -- 5. The relation between individual monetary demand and physical demand, 29 -- 6. The derivation of the aggregate demand function from the individual demand functions, 37 -- 7. The micro-economic and the macro-economic consumption function, 38 -- 8. The long-term economic plan of the household (dynamic demand functions), 46 -- Chapter 2. The economic plan of the firm, 50 -- 1. Objectives, modes of behaviour, and forms of market, 50 -- I. The objectives of the firm, 50 -- 2. The modes of behaviour of the firm, 51 -- 3. Competition between Sellers, 59 -- II. The Revenue plan of the firm for a single economic period, 67 -- 1. The revenue plan of a seller acting as a quantity-adjuster, 67 -- 2. The revenue plan of a seller facing an expected price-sales relation, 68 -- 3. The revenue plan of a multi-product firm supplying made-to-order" goods, 75 -- III. The cost plan of a going firm for a single economic period (the short-term cost plan), 76 -- I. The cost plan of a single-product firm, 76 -- 2. Marginal cost and marginal product (the laws of returns), 86 -- 3. The cost plan of a multi-product firm, 92 -- IV. The profit plan of a going firm for a single economic period (the short-term profit plan), 96 -- A. The profit plan of a single-product firm, 96 -- 1. The profit plan of a firm acting as a quantity adjuster, 96 -- 2. The profit plan of a seller facing an expected price- sales relation, 108 -- 3. The problem of price-discrimination, 118 -- B. The profit plan of a multi-product firm, 126 -- V. The purchasing plan of a going firm for a single economic period (the demand of a firm for factors of production), 130 -- I. The firm's demand for factors of production, 130 -- 2. The relation between the demand for a factor of production and the demand for the product, 131 -- VI. The long-term economic plan of a firm, 158 -- Chapter 3. Statics and dynamics in economic theory, 182 -- Chapter 4. The problem of equilibrium in a closed economy, 189 -- I. The concept of economic equilibrium, 189 -- II. Partial equilibrium, 196 -- 1. The equilibrium price of a good with a constant supply per unit of time, 196 -- 2. The equilibrium price of a good with a variable supply per unit of time, 208 -- 3. The equilibrium price of a good with given and unchanging stocks, 229 -- 4. The liquidity theory of interest as a partial equilibrium theory, 234 -- 5. The problem of equilibrium under a supply monopoly, 238 -- 6. The problem of equilibrium under heterogeneous competition between two suppliers, 243 -- 7. The problem of equilibrium under bilateral monopoly, 259 -- 8. The problem of equilibrium in the labour market, 274 -- g. The problem of equilibrium in the market for land, 283 -- III. Total equilibrium in a closed economy, 286 -- 1. Partial and total equilibrium, 286 -- 2. Total equilibrium in a stationary exchange economy without production (the case of a pure exchange economy), 208 -- 3. Total equilibrium in a stationary exchange economy with production, 307 -- Further problems, 318 -- Index of authors, 323 -- Index of subjects, 325.