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Northrup Buechner 210 $aLanham $cUniversity Press of America, Inc.$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (365 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7618-5481-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aOBJECTIVE ECONOMICS; TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE METHOD AND CONTEXT; I. The Method of Economics; A. Induction; B. Other Things Equal; C. How to Evaluate This Book; II. Laissez-Faire Capitalism; Money; CHAPTER TWO OBJECTIVE ECONOMIC VALUE; I. The Modern Meaning of Value; The Role of Philosophy; II. The Objective versus the Intrinsic and the Subjective; A. The Intrinsic; B. The Subjective; C. The Objective; III. Intrinsic Value versus Subjective Value; A. Intrinsic Value; B. Subjective Value; IV. Objective Value; A. Introduction 327 $aB. The Standard of Objective Economic ValueC. Knowledge and Objective Economic Value; Three meanings of value; D. Optional Values Are Objective Values; E. Nonobjective Values Are Objective Disvalues; F. Objective Value versus Subjective Value; G. Objective Economic Value; CHAPTER THREE FUNDAMENTAL ECONOMIC CONCEPTS; I. Supply and Demand; A. The Importance of a Theory of Price; B. The Historical Role of the Law of Supply and Demand; C. The Meaning of Supply and Demand; D. The Law of Supply and Demand; II. Goods and Services; III. Market; IV. Capital and Wealth; V. Price 327 $aA. The Doctrine of Relative PricesB. The Objective Price; C. The Opportunity Cost Doctrine; D. The Intrinsic Conception of the Real Price; Intrinsic price in Adam Smith; VI. Competition; CHAPTER FOUR FOUNDATIONAL THEORIES; I. The Theory of Consumer Choice; A. Hierarchies of Values; B. Consumer Choice; C. The Diminishing Marginal Value of Money; II. The Law of Demand; III. The Principle of Gains from Trade; IV. The Theory of Objective Business Costs; A. Alternative Concepts of Business Costs; B. Problems in the Calculation of Business Costs; 1. Anomalies of cost allocation; Labor costs 327 $aMaterials costsMachine costs; Handling and carrying costs; Administrative costs; Advertising and promotion costs; 2. Erroneous cost calculations; 3. Costs calculated by reference to the selling price; 4. Summing up; C. The Theory of Objective Costs; CHAPTER FIVE INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF OBJECTIVE PRICES; I. The Three Theories of Price; A. The Intrinsic Theory of Price; B. The Subjective Theory of Price; C. Marshall's Theory of Price; D. The Objective Theory of Price; II. Background Considerations; A. Case 1; B. Case 2; C. Case 3; III. How Prices Are Created 327 $aA. Preliminary Comments on TerminologyB. The Markets of a Free Economy; C. The Five Methods of Price Creation; CHAPTER SIX SOME ONE SETS THE PRICE; I. Introduction; The Calculation of Profit; II. Demand; Socially Objective Value; III. Unit Costs; A. Average Cost Pricing; B. Variable Cost Pricing; C. Marginalism; D. The Required Relation of Cost to Price; E. 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