Chapter 162 of 163 · Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market by Murray N. Rothbard
Index of Subjects
- Ability and earnings, 1354
- Ability to pay, 1224–31
- Abundance, 654; see also Saving; Scarcity
- Acceleration principle, 860(n70), 868–74, 869(n78), 870(n79), 874(n82)
- Accounting, 198, 200, 843(n58), 863
- Action
- Adulteration, 1098, 1099(n19)
- Advertising, 666(n28), 738(n88), 888, 978, 978(n93), 981(n97), 1071
- Aesthetics, 74
- Affluence, growth, and government, 962–89
- Aggression, 101, 877; see also Government
- Agriculture, 487
- Air, 8(n10), 92
- Air pollution, 182
- Alienation, 1317–18
- Altruism, 1321–23
- Anarchism, 1347
- “Anarchy of production,” 876, 1024
- Animals, 2(n5), 172
- Antitrust laws, 907, 1117–21
- Arbitrage, 119
- Association, law, 98
- Austria, 534(n20)
- Austrian School of economics, xx, xxviii–xxxi, liv, lviii
- business cycle, 1007, 1008(n115)
- costs, 343(n16), 588
- economists, 356, 356(n21)
- investment, 535
- land and labor, 481
- marginal utility theory, 356(n21)
- praxeology; See Praxeology
- present state of, lix
- price, 817
- production, 481, 627(n70)
- progress of, lviii, lix
- taxation, 909, 1160
- time, 1199(n43), 1201
- vs. neoclassical economics, 1124(n53)
- Autistic intervention, 877
- Average physical product, 37(table 1), 468–75, 469(table 13), 472(fig. 59), 473(table 14)
- Averages, 838, 839(n56)
- Balance of payments, 198, 205, 210, 822–26, 825(table 16), 824(n43), 1011(n119)
- Bankruptcy, 1011, 1028
- Bankruptcy laws, 180, 551(n38)
- Banks and banking
- Belgium, 810(n35)
- central, 1013(n122), 1015, 1016(n125), 1017(n126)
- checks, 804
- credit expansion, 873, 1008, 1013
- demand deposits, 804, 804(n30, n31)
- deposit insurance, 1009(n118)
- fraud, 802, 809(n33), 1009(n117)
- free, 1013, 1013(n122)
- government, 811, 1009(n117)
- Holland, 810(n35)
- loans, 793
- money warehouses, 800–04
- 100 percent reserve, 804, 807, 810–11, 831(n47), 1007(n114)
- promissory notes, 811(n37)
- purposes, 800
- receipts, 801, 802, 803, 804(n31), 808
- reserve, 804, 806, 810(n34), 1016(n125)
- savings, 804(n30)
- Switzerland, 810(n35)
- time deposits, 804(n30)
- see also Money; Trade
- Bargaining
- Barter, lvi
- Basing-point system, 621(n67), 1121, 1122(n49)
- Beggars, 1321(n16)
- Begging, 943, 943(n59)
- Behaviorism, 1, 43(n27), 482; see also Human action
- Belgium, banks, 671(n35)
- Belonging, sense of, 100
- Benefit principle of taxation, 923, 1225(n66), 1235(n79), 1242(n81), 1236–40, 1248(n85)
- Benefits
- at the expense of others, 880
- external, 1029–41, 1035(n149), 1037(n150), 1041(n152)
- government, 1029–1041
- money, 765
- mutual, 879
- psychic, 575
- saving-investment, 547–49
- taxation, 908, 932
- Betting, 555, 555(n44), 1333(n23)
- Bills of exchange, 821, 827–28
- Bimetallism, 828, 899, 1081
- Binary intervention, 877, 879, 881(n6), 907–994
- Biology, metaphor, 970, 1001
- Black market, 888, 893, 899, 901, 960
- Blacklist, 179
- Blackmail, 183(n49)
- Bonds, 445
- Booms, 937, 1002, 1006, 1006(n113), 1018–21,
- Bootleggers, 900, 902(n24)
- Borrowing, 417, 445, 551(n38), 913, 1025–28
- Boycott, 179
- Brand name, 664
- Bribery, 893, 893(n20), 896, 901
- Budget, government, 907–14
- Bureaucracy, 892(n19), 901, 908, 961, 1027
- Business
- acceleration principle, 868
- advertising, 666(n28), 738(n88), 888, 978
- calculation, 611(fig. 66)
- cartels, 636, 652, 659
- cost, 588–600
- cycles
- Austrian theory, 1007, 1008(n115)
- capitalism, 853
- causal sequence, 854(n64)
- credit expansion, 873
- depression, 581, 984, 1000, 1005
- errors, 852
- fallacies of, 1299
- inflation, 989–1024
- overoptimism and overpessimism, 854, 854(n64)
- pattern, 851, 1008
- Schumpeter's theory, 854–59
- secondary developments, 1004–08
- specific, 855(n66)
- decision-making, 602
- decision-rents, 603
- evenly rotating economy, 602
- excess capacity, 726
- expansion, 907(n28)
- fluctuations, 851–54
- forecasting, 64, 159, 293, 639, 732, 873
- government in, 946–52
- income, 601–05
- innovations, 546, 746, 858, 961
- inventories, 863(n71)
- joint-stock companies, 426–43, 438(fig. 53), 686(n51), 951(n65)
- loss, 684(n47)
- marginal, 603
- measuring changes, 848
- motivation, 666(n27)
- oligopoly, 722
- organization, 429
- size
- tax, 928–29, 930
- transactions, 648
- see also Entrepreneurship; Evenly rotating economy; Monopoly
- Buying and selling
- costs, 276, 340, 599, 736–38
- discrimination, 160
- entrepreneurship, 159
- exchange gains, 257
- marginal, 117, 238, 254, 275
- maximum and minimum, 108
- measurement, 117
- money, 758
- preferences, 206, 255, 741
- prices, 103, 106, 109(n23), 112, 127(table 3), 235, 739
- profit and loss, 289
- prohibited, 900
- restricted, 153
- revenue, 161
- speculation, 130, 873
- stock withheld, 137, 139
- time, 157
- utility, 239, 254, 275
- value scales. See Value scales, buyers and sellers
- zones, 250(n8)
- see also Demand; Supply
- Calculation
- Canals, private, 984(n99)
- Capital
- accumulation, production structure, 537–43, 1168(n21)
- Böhm-Bawerk's views, 58–59, 374(n6)
- choosing, 55, 415
- circulation, 535(n21)
- consumption, 47, 55, 534
- defined, 967
- evenly rotating economy, 399, 450, 480
- expanded, 436
- formation, 47–70, 966(n77)
- goods
- interest rate, 373
- investment, 207, 532, 719
- labor, 506(n36)
- limited, 639(n6)
- maintaining, 398
- marginal efficiency, 371(n5)
- national, 491
- permanence, 402
- production, 40–41, 479, 537
- stockholders, 426
- values
- see also Investments; Money; Production
- Capitalism
- business cycles, 855
- choice, 415
- corporate, 434
- criticism, 974
- decisions, 399
- demand, 406
- “economic power,” 346
- entrepreneurs, 510, 527, 536, 578, 639(n6)
- function, 374
- German theory, 973(n87)
- income, 368, 396, 518–19
- investments, 207, 532, 719
- money, individual stock and time preference, 410–16
- ownership, 333, 345–48
- producers’, 392, 395, 406
- production, 345–48, 410–16
- rent, 488–95
- savings, 345
- services, 347
- trial by intellectuals, 974(n89)
- see also Evenly rotating economy; Market economy
- Capitalists; see also Capitalism
- Capitalization, lvii, 488–95, 528(n13), 533(n17)
- Cartels
- Case probability, 60(n36)
- Cash balance, 203, 264, 759–60, 775, 805, 1168(n21), 1181(n33)
- Cash holding, 203, 850
- Caste system, 641, 881(n6), 902(n24), 1062(n5)
- Catallactics
- Catholic thought, 1335–36
- Cause and effect, 43(n27), 454, 591–92
- Center for Libertarian Studies, lix
- Central planning
- Champagne, fairs of, 1051
- Changes
- Changing economy, 509–55
- Charging what the traffic will bear, 663
- Charity, 943, 943(n58), 1258, 1314, 1318–21, 1321(n16, n17), 1354
- Checks and balances, 1054
- Chicago School, 705(n58), 912, 1196
- Children, 93(n12); see also Laws, child labor
- Choosing
- capital, 55, 415
- consumer, 629, 667, 885–86, 969(n80)
- differentiation, 666(n28)
- economizing, 5
- goods, 55, 294
- investment, 216, 219
- limited, 1034(n147)
- location, 1034
- marginal utility, 30, 278
- means and ends, 1–2, 5
- planning, 71, 279–80
- praxeology, 306, 481
- production, 482
- slavery, 81, 987(n102)
- voluntary, 84(n6), 635
- see also Valuation
- Circularity, 268, 454, 535(n21), 760–61
- Civil Aeronautics Board, 1095(n15)
- Civil disobedience, 1187
- Claims, types, 165
- Class probability, 553
- Clear and present danger, 1100(n22)
- Clearing system, 771, 771(n8), 821–26
- Coercion, 1326–29, 1345–46
- Coining money, 197(n7), 799, 800(n29)
- Commodity
- Communism, 172, 959, 959(n71, n72)
- Compensatory fiscal policy, 1023
- Competition
- cartels, 653–58
- cutthroat, 681–87, 684(n48)
- effects, 109
- environment, 675–76
- free, 653–58
- limited, 949
- location, 675–76
- monopolistic, 629–30; see also Monopoly
- prices, 635, 680, 704, 903
- pure, 593(n35), 720, 727(fig. 70), 732(fig. 71), 1352(n36), 1352
- right of, 657
- welfare ideas, 298, 723(n72)
- see also Market economy
- Conceptual realism, 1279(n19)
- Conflict
- Conscription, 878, 1113
- Conservation, 907(n28), 1037; see also Laws, conservation
- Conservatives, 615(n60), 934, 947, 955, 969, 992, 1028
- Constants, 845(n59), 849, 863
- Constitutions, 1291(n28)
- Construct, imaginary and model, 576(n15)
- Consumers
- action, 56, 280, 298
- advertising, 666(n28), 738(n88), 888, 978
- choice, 630, 667, 885, 969(n80), 1070–71, 1301, 1324
- credit, 983
- demand, 96, 297, 416, 672
- dictatorship and, 1303–06, 1303(n5)
- goods, 7
- income, 605
- innovations, 856(n67), 988(n103)
- irrationality, 666(n27)
- loan market, 371(n5), 375, 420, 435, 451(n44), 551
- marginal utility of money, 261–68
- morality, 632
- preferences, 207, 255, 514, 666(n28)
- rationality, 666(n27)
- risks, 548, 551, 681, 886
- satisfactions, 298–302
- scarcity, 12, 34, 330
- services, 12, 56, 605–06
- sovereignty
- spending. See Spending
- surplus, 259, 261
- tax, 914
- time, 9, 42, 404
- valuation, 569
- see also Entrepreneurship; Market economy
- Consumption
- antiproductive, 941
- budget studies, 862
- capital, 47, 55, 534
- catallactics, 630(n2)
- defined, 53
- economics of, lvi
- evaluated, 38
- function, 777, 778–79, 860–66, 864(n72), 865(n75), 867(n76)
- Galbraith's attack, 973, 984
- investment ratios, 860, 861(fig. 82), 997
- nonproductive, 941(n57)
- present and future, 278, 919, 919(n38)
- prices, 233–317; see also Prices
- Russian, 966
- savings, 400, 413(fig. 49)
- services, 333(n8)
- surplus, 259, 261
- see also Goods; Production
- Contracts
- Control
- Convertibility and valuation, 38–42, 65
- Co-operation
- Co-operatives, 433, 608, 608(n54), 1252(n88), 1280
- Copyrights and patents, 673(n38), 746(n93), 745–54, 748(n96, n97), 1133(n68); see also Patents
- Corporations, 430, 433, 1143–44, 1252(n88), 1281(n21), 1353; see also Joint-stock company
- Costs
- Austrian School, 343(n16)
- average, 592
- bibliographical references, 600(n48)
- business, 588–600, 733, 928
- buying and selling, 276, 341, 599, 736–38
- comparative, 98
- curve. See Curves, cost
- determined, 136, 734(fig. 72)
- external, 1035(n148)
- firm, 588–600
- fixed, 591
- human action, 262
- interest, 354(n19)
- labor, 577
- land, 342
- marginal and government, 950
- marginal private, 950(n63)
- marginal social, 950(n63)
- marginal utility, 264, 276–79
- money, prices, and A. Marshall, 275, 353–62, 588, 598–99, 674(n39)
- monopoly, 734(fig. 72), 736
- opportunity, 607
- principle, 1242, 1242(n80)
- production, xxxvi–xxxviii, 340–45, 353–62, 597, 618(n64), 737(n86)
- psychic, 104, 160, 262
- restriction, 704, 906
- revenues, 104, 135, 160, 209, 255
- rise and fall, 790(n25)
- selling, 276, 333(n8), 341, 599, 736–38, 737(n86)
- significance, 342(n14)
- storage, 157(n31)
- subjective, 343
- transportation, 618(n64), 619, 820
- use, 264, 276–79
- see also Market economy; Money
- Counterfeiting, 1145, 1249(n86)
- Countervailing power, 736(n83)
- Credit
- Credit expansion
- Crusoe economics, 43, 47, 79, 80, 95, 103, 187, 366, 537, 636(n4), 653, 726
- Curves
- cost, 589, 589(n29), 591, 592(n33), 595(n39), 598, 600(n47), 660, 727, 733, 736(n82)
- demand
- changes, 147
- competition, 720
- defined, 121, 724
- effect, 251(fig. 37), 675, 728(n75)
- elastic and inelastic, 641, 676, 722, 904, 1130(n64)
- example, 249(fig. 35)
- labor, 572(fig. 63), 573(fig. 64)
- land, 568, 568(fig. 62), 694
- long-run and short-run, 733
- marginal utility, 124
- modified, 132(fig. 19), 134(fig. 22), 251
- possible pattern, 121(fig. 14)
- prices, 894
- reservation, 250(fig. 36), 759
- shape, 733
- simplified, 132(fig. 18)
- total, 249(fig. 35), 760, 762
- vertical, 759
- speculation, 251
- stock, 249(fig. 35)
- supply
- time market
- total outlay, 128(fig. 17)
- see also Value scales
- Debt
- Defamation, 182
- Deflation, 917(n35), 1006, 1159(n13); seealso Money
- Demand
- capitalists, 406
- cash, 789
- consumer, 95, 297, 416, 672
- curve. See Curves, demand
- elasticity, 126–30, 676, 722, 1163(n16)
- excess, 118
- gold, 272, 899
- goods. See Goods, demand
- income, 416–20
- increase, 23, 239
- individual, 381(n8)
- labor, 406, 572(fig. 63), 573(fig. 64)
- land, 406, 568
- market, 155; see also Market economy
- money. See Money
- nonmonetary, 760
- price, 23, 115, 126, 138–39, 249–57
- production, 95, 416–20
- quantity, 153(fig. 28)
- renting, 294
- reservation, 137, 247, 253, 294, 756
- schedules. See Schedules
- silver, 899
- speculation, 130–37, 251, 768–71, 770(fig. 77)
- stock withheld, 137, 139
- total to hold, 137–42, 138(table 4), 139(fig. 23), 148(fig. 25), 247
- utility, 252
- Democracy, 890, 891(n18), 1065–67, 1279–81, 1280(n20), 1282(n23), 1286(n24, n25), 1288(n27)
- Depression, 581, 984, 1000, 1005
- Determinism, 978
- Dictatorship, 886, 886(n12)
- Direct exchange
- continuing markets, 142–52
- division of labor, 95–102
- demand, 126–42
- exchangeable goods, 162–69, 214, 215(n14)
- interpersonal action, 79–94
- land, 170
- limitations, 187–89
- prices, 106, 142
- property, 169
- society, contractual, 84–94, 99
- specialization and stock production, 153–61, 156(fig. 29)
- speculation, 130–37
- stock, 137–42, 139(fig. 23), 153–61
- supply and demand schedules, 137–42
- terms, 103–06
- violence, 79–84
- voluntary action, 84–94
- see also Exchange
- Discounting, 453–78, 480
- Discrimination, 159–60, 666(n28)
- see also Valuation
- Distribution
- Disutility, 44, 49
- Diversity, 1309
- Dividends, 433, 440
- Dollar, origin, 197(n7)
- Durable goods. See Goods, durable
- Earnings, implicit, and market calculation, 606–09
- Econometricians, 325(n2)
- Econometrics, liv, 1357–69
- Economic
- Economics
- action, 72–77, 280(n26), 324(n1)
- Austrian School. See Austrian School
- basis, 2
- calculation, 614, 843–44
- Cambridge, liv
- Crusoe, 47, 80, 95, 103, 537, 636(n4)
- defined, 162, 875(n1)
- education, 744, 954
- epistemological character, 865
- firm, theory, 506(n36)
- fragmentation of, lii
- Galbraith's views, 973–88
- indifference concept, 307
- interdisciplinary mixtures with, lii
- interrelations, 589(n28)
- Keynes’ views, 582
- land, 171, 485
- location and spatial relations, 617–22
- market economy, 84–185
- mathematics, 75, 306, 325, 785
- neoclassical, 424, 582, 1124(n53)
- of growth, 1335
- population, 562, 860(n70)
- praxeology, 72–77
- prediction, 64, 159, 293, 639, 731, 873
- public policy and, 1357–69
- resources, 171–72, 174(n42), 486
- Ricardian, 718–19
- scarcity. See Scarcity
- science, 357
- Schumpeter's views, 450, 729, 851–52
- technology, and size of firm, 645–51
- unemployment, 581, 783, 790
- unions, 713
- violent intervention in market, 875–1041
- benefits, external, 1029–1041
- binary, 877, 880, 907–94
- booms, 1018–21
- borrowing, 1025–28
- budget, 907–14
- business, 946–52, 989–1024
- centers of calculational chaos, 952–53
- coercion and free market, 1024–25
- compensatory fiscal policy, 1021–24
- conflict and command posts, 953–55
- control
- credit expansion, 989–1004, 1008–18
- free market and coercion, 1024–25
- Galbraith and sin of affluence, 973–88
- goods, collective, 1029–41
- government
- income tax, 914–19
- industry tax, 927–31
- inflation, 989–1024
- introduction, 875–76
- land tax, 934–37
- mathematical, liv
- neutral tax, 919–27
- ownership, public, 955–57
- planning, central, 958–61
- price control, 892–900
- product control, 900–07
- productivity, contribution, 938–41
- purchasing power tax, 937
- resource-using activities, 944–46
- sales tax, 930–34
- shifting and incidence, 927–30
- social security, 957
- socialism, 614, 958–61
- subsidies, 942–44
- taxation, 914–38
- transfer payments, 942–44
- triangular intervention, 878, 892–907
- typology of intervention, 877–78
- unemployment, 582
- unhampered, 2, 84–185
- utility
- values, land, 171, 934–37
- welfare, 623(n69), 876(n2), 879(n3), 1360–62
- Economists
- Economy
- changing, 509, 527–36
- imaginary construction, 143(n29), 534, 576(n15), 627, 876
- money, 195, 233, 268, 281
- primitive, 47, 79, 95, 103, 537, 636(n4)
- progressing. See Progressing economy
- retrogressing, 532, 532(n16), 536
- Russian, 959, 959(n72), 966, 971(n84)
- stationary, 533, 627
- see also Entrepreneurship; Evenly rotating economy; Market economy
- Education, 577, 744, 954, 982(n98)
- Egypt, steel mills, 966(n77)
- Elasticity of demand, 126–30, 676, 721
- Eminent domain, 1139–41, 1140(n72), 1141(n73, n74)
- Empiricism, liv
- Employment, 582, 605780(fig. 79); see also Labor
- Ends. See Means and ends
- England
- Entrepreneurs, 1125(n55), 1140(n72)
- Entrepreneurship, 1313, 1359
- act, 64
- aim, 569
- appraisement, 316
- booms, 1018
- capitalist, 510, 527, 536, 578, 639(n6)
- change, 509–55
- decision-making ability, 598
- durable consumers’ goods, 288, 296
- forecasting, 64, 159, 293, 639, 732, 873
- function, 434, 509, 511
- income, 588–616
- innovations, 210, 546–47, 856
- interest, 549–52
- investment, 210, 517–27, 547–49, 950
- labor, 605
- production, 509–55
- profits and loss, 509–16, 527–36, 607, 885, 895
- purpose, 349
- risks, 548, 550, 682, 886
- scarcity, 639(n6)
- transportation costs, 619
- see also Consumers; Market economy
- Egalitarianism, 1234(n78), 1308–12
- Environment, 3, 675–76; see also Location
- Envy, 1068
- Epistemology, 865
- Equality
- Equilibrium
- basis, 539
- capital value, 292
- changing, 321
- exchange, 146(table 5)
- final, 108, 134(fig. 21), 321, 325(n2), 727(fig. 70)
- general, lvii, 589(n28), 910
- interest rate, 418(fig. 51), 735(fig. 73)
- mathematics, 325(n2)
- money value, 761(fig. 74)
- partial, 910
- prices
- process, 372
- speculation, 250
- supply and demand, 139
- unemployment, 783
- zone, 250(n8)
- Ethics
- Eudaemonism, 1356(n37)
- Evenly rotating economy (ERE), xxxiv(n35), xxxviii
- Excess capacity, 67(n38), 642, 726–36, 764, 770, 874(n82)
- Exchange
- action, 20, 70–72, 279
- aggression, 101
- autistic, 84
- barriers. See Trade
- bills, 827–28
- combinations, 102
- commodity, 189, 191(fig. 31)
- compulsory, 84
- continuing, 142
- contracts, 176
- credit, 166
- demand, 126–42, 756
- direct, lvi, 79–185
- division, 85, 95
- equal, 880, 880(n5)
- equation, 831–42
- equilibrium, 146(table 5)
- gains, 257–61
- gold, 273
- goods. See Goods, exchange
- importance, 87
- indirect, 187–231
- interlocal, 617–24, 818–26
- interpersonal, 84
- isolated, 107
- marginal utility, 86
- market, 187
- medium. See Money
- monetary, lvi
- motivation, 100
- pattern, 199
- prices, 106, 142–52
- production and consumption, 88, 630(n2)
- property, 92, 169
- quantity, 146(table 5)
- rate, 828–31
- reasons, 103
- resources, 223
- services, 162
- types, 163, 168–69
- value, 88, 99, 131, 223, 758
- voluntary, xciv 84–94, 876(n2)
- see also Market economy
- Expenditures. See Spending
- Experts, 1072, 1301
- Exploitation, 84, 743, 881, 881(n6), 1352
- Exports and imports
- External diseconomies, 181
- Factors of production. See Production
- Factory Acts, 1118(n36)
- False assumptions, liv
- Farm program, 1367–68
- Fascist system, 959
- Fees, 1247(n84)
- Fines, 1154(n7)
- Fire in crowded theater, 1339
- Firms. See Business
- Fiscal policy, compensatory, 1023
- Fish, ownership, 174
- Fisheries, 1127(n59)
- Forecasting, 64, 159, 293, 639, 732, 876, 1357
- Forests, 1126, 1126(n57), 1132
- Franchises, 1138
- Fraud, 183, 802, 1009(n117), 1099(n19), 1346
- Freedom
- Free market. See Market economy
- Free rider, 965, 1036
- French, railroads, 951(n65), 1265(n8)
- Gains
- Gambling, 555, 555(n44), 1333, 1333(n23), 1334(n24)
- Georgists
- Germany, 683(n46), 973(n87), 1021
- Gerrymandering, 1282
- Gold
- Goods
- alienable, 164
- capital. See Capital goods
- choosing, 55, 294
- collective, 1019, 1029–41, 1292(n29)
- complementary, 285
- consumers’. See Consumers, goods; Consumption
- demand
- durable
- export-import, 202
- exchange
- exchangeable, 1324, 1350–56
- fixed stock, 149, 255
- “free,” 8(n10)
- homogeneous, 666(n27, n28), 667, 694, 700, 967
- inalienable, 164
- labor, 43
- marginal utility, 976
- marketable, 1323, 1350 ff.
- monetary attributes, 826–31
- movement, 610(fig. 65)
- nonexchangeable, 214, 215(n14), 1324
- ownership, 92, 332
- perishable, 53
- present and future
- prices
- producers’. See Producers; Production
- purchasing, 199, 237
- relationship, 28
- selling, 127(table 3), 206, 254, 739
- specific and nonspecific, 38, 522
- stolen, 180(n46)
- substitutes, 282, 286
- supply, 23, 116, 139
- total outlay of sale, 127(table 3)
- types, 33
- utility, 252, 288, 296, 299, 375, 385
- valued, 21, 288, 296, 299, 375, 384
- warehouse receipts, 165
- see also Product
- Government
- action, interpersonal, 84, 957(n69)
- activity, “collective goods” and “external benefits,” 1029–41, 1257(n3), 1292(n29)
- affluence and growth, 962–88
- arguments, 962(n75), 1026
- Austria, 534(n20)
- banks and banking, 810, 1009(n117)
- benefits, 1029–41
- borrowing, 1025–28, 1027(n136, n137), 1028(n139)
- budget, 907–14
- bureaucratic, 892(n19), 900, 908, 961, 1027
- business basis, fallacy, 946–52, 1261ff.
- charity, 943, 943(n59)
- central planning, 958–61
- coercion, 1024, 1030
- communistic, 173, 959, 959(n71, n72)
- compensatory fiscal policy, 1023
- competition in, 1034(n147)
- compulsory school attendance, 955
- conservation, 1037
- credit-expansion promoter, 1014–18
- criminals, 884, 945
- debt, 1027(n136, n137), 1028, 1028(n139)
- defense, 1270
- democratic, 890, 891(n18)
- dictatorship, 886, 886(n12)
- education, 954
- Egyptian, 966(n77)
- England, 178(n45), 669, 972, 984(n99)
- expenditures, 1149–51, 1167(n19), 1253–95
- experts, 889
- free market, utility ex ante and ex post, 885–91
- French railroads, 951(n65)
- Galbraith's views, 962–88
- German, 683(n46), 973(n87), 1021
- gifts to, 1057(n1), 1245–52
- grants, 545(n33), 669
- growth, 962–88
- “immortality,” 957(n69)
- Indian, 970(n83)
- industry, 613(n57)
- inefficiencies, 951
- inflation, 895, 1021
- interference. See Intervention
- investment, 966, 1259, 1262
- lending, 1274–75
- loans, 1026
- majority rule, 432, 883
- national product and, 1292–94
- needs, 983
- output, 969(n80)
- ownership, 953, 955, 1030, 1129(n63), 1259–78, 1266(n10), 1271(n13), 1276–79, 1278(n18), 1337–40
- Point Four, 542(n31)
- police, 944, 984, 1031, 1032
- poor relief, 942, 943(n58)
- post office, 951, 951(n64, n65), 952, 955, 956(n67)
- pricing, marginal costs, 950
- production, 939, 966
- productive contribution, 938–41
- profit-making enterprise, 86, 948
- propaganda, 982
- public utility, 516(n3)
- rivers, 954
- roads, 945, 946(n61), 948, 952(n66), 986, 1032
- sales, 1293(n30)
- savings, effects, 68, 1026
- schools, 954, 955, 986, 1269, 1271, 1271(n13)
- seas, 954
- services, 944, 950, 951(n65), 984, 1259ff., 1265(n8)
- shortages and, 1260
- social security, 957
- social utility, 882
- socialistic, 614, 659, 875, 935(n48), 958, 965, 971(n84)
- Soviet, 959, 959(n72), 966, 971(n84)
- spending. See Spending
- subsidies. See Subsidies
- subway, 952, 952(n66)
- streets, 1338
- tax. See Taxation
- unemployment relief, 944, 985
- uniformity, 1268(n12)
- unions, 897(n22)
- voluntary nature of, 883, 883(n10)
- waste, 66, 637, 647, 941, 1041(n152)
- water supply, 944
- world, 1051
- Grazing, 1126(n57), 1127, 1127(n58)
- Gresham's Law, 898, 1080, 1083, 1144
- Group relations, 2–3, 433
- Growth
- Happiness, 18
- Harmony, 876(n2), 881
- Hayekian paradigm
- Hedonism, 1356(n37)
- Hegemonic relations, 82, 100, 636, 877–88
- “Hidden persuaders,” 981(n97)
- History, 74, 192, 258(n13)
- Hoarding
- Holland, banks and banking, 810(n35)
- Homestead principle, 1126, 1126(n57), 1127(n58), 1209, 1209(n54), 1212(n57), 1213, 1356
- Hoover Commission Task Force Report, 961(n74)
- Human action
- analysis, 43(n27), 875(n1)
- assumptions, 324(n1)
- behaviorism, 43(n27), 482
- capital formation, 47–70
- causal force, 323
- concept, 1–33
- consumer, 56, 281, 297
- convertibility and valuation, 38–42, 65
- co-operation, 99, 697
- costs, 262
- deliberate, 7(n9)
- determining, 306
- economics, xxii, 72–77, 280(n26), 324(n1)
- equality of utility, 307–08
- ex ante and ex post, 277, 885
- exchange, 20, 70–72, 279
- fundamentals, 1–77, 319–20
- goals, 658(n18)
- group relations, 2–3, 433
- indifference, 307, 309
- interaction, 79, 85
- interpersonal, 84, 957(n69)
- invasive and noninvasive, 93, 176
- labor vs. leisure, 42–47, 217, 344
- law
- mathematics, 326, 327(n5)
- means and ends, 8–13, 17–21, 658(n18)
- morality, 177, 633, 636, 641
- planned, 11, 280(n25)
- praxeology, 72–77, 877
- production
- qualitative, 324, 845
- rational, 310, 666(n27)
- real, 260
- stages, 159
- things, 835
- time, 13–17, 13(fig. 1)
- types, 94
- uncertainty, 7, 60, 265, 376, 552
- valuation, 17–21, 38, 309; see also Want-satisfaction
- violence, 80, 82, 875
- voluntary, 84
- Human rights, 1338
- Idleness
- Imaginary constructions, xxxiv
- Immigration. See Laws, immigration
- Import quota, 903
- Imports. See Exports and imports
- Income
- averaging, 1179(n31)
- benefits, 924
- business, 601–05
- capitalist, 368, 396, 518
- consumer, 605
- designated, 602–03
- distribution, 912
- earning process, 352
- entrepreneurs, 588–616
- exports and imports, 822
- factor, 335(fig. 40), 369(fig. 41), 478–79
- gross, 395
- inflation, 992
- interest, 368
- labor, 368, 605
- land, and labor, 368, 528, 605
- maximizing, 213–31, 561(n6)
- money, 198–206, 210, 224
- national, 397, 777(n12), 862
- net, 396
- post, demanders, 416–20
- productive, 557–627
- psychic, 213, 217, 221, 575, 633
- real, 525, 561(n6), 916
- social, 776–85, 778(fig. 78), 780(fig. 79), 859, 861(fig. 82)
- sources, 468–79, 606
- spending. See Spending
- tax, 914–19, 916(fig. 86), 920, 934, 934(n47)
- underdeveloped countries, 914(n34)
- voluntary, 81, 85
- wealth, 656, 743, 988(n103), 889
- Indeterminacy, 365, 716–17
- Index numbers, 845, 847(n60)
- India, 970(n83)
- Indifference, 307, 309
- Indirect exchange
- emergence, 189–93
- expenditures, 198–213
- implications of emergence of money, 193–95
- income, 198–206, 213–31, 298
- limitations of direct exchange, 187–89
- maximizing income and allocating resources, 213–31
- monetary unit, 196–98
- money, 193–206, 299
- pattern, 187–231, 190(fig. 30)
- producers’ expenditures, 206–12
- see also Exchange
- Individual
- Industrial Revolution, 972
- Industry
- acceleration principle, 868
- basing-point system, 621(n67)
- booms, 937, 1002, 1006(n113), 1018
- government, 613(n57)
- interest return, 734, 736, 909(n31)
- location, 619
- oil, 684(n48), 686(n51)
- planned, 613(n57)
- processes, 543(n32)
- steel, 579
- tax, 927–30
- taxicab, 906
- West German, 683(n46)
- see also Technology
- Inelasticity, 635, 641, 676, 722
- Inequality. See Equality
- Infant industry argument, 1105–07, 1135
- Inflation, lvii, lix, 119, 1077, 1158, 1158(n12)
- business cycle, 989–1024
- compensatory fiscal policy, 1021–24
- credit expansion, 989–94
- defined, 990(n106), 1022(n131)
- depressions, 581, 984, 1000, 1005
- effects, 991, 1005, 1083(n5),
- Galbraith's views, 984, 993–94
- German, 1021
- government fighting, 1021
- incomes, 993
- Keynesian, 784
- money supply, 1071
- prices, 1021, 1078
- process, 895
- tax, 1019
- wages, 784
- Infringement, 1343
- Inheritance, 1038
- Innovations
- Interpersonal relations, lvi
- Insurance, 1052, 1314–15
- Integration, vertical, 609–16, 610(fig. 65), 611(fig. 66)
- Interaction, 79–80, 85
- Interest
- contract, 437(n35)
- cost, 354(n19), 735
- defined, 509
- earning by firm, 734
- George's view, 1201(n45)
- income, 368
- investment, 859–60
- Keynesian theory, 786
- originary, 539(n27)
- rate
- capital, 373
- changes, 466(fig. 57), 547–52
- contractual, 437(n35), 441
- determination, 362, 421(fig. 52)
- entrepreneurs, 550–52
- equilibrium, 418(fig. 51), 735(fig. 73)
- evenly rotating economy, 362, 375, 446, 735, 909(n31)
- Keynes’ views, 788(n22)
- land, 405(n24)
- loan, 793, 1027
- long-run and short-run, 447(fig. 54)
- market, 539–40, 550–52, 792, 999
- natural, 371(n5), 793, 1005
- present and future, 348–53, 393(n14)
- prices, 371, 735(fig. 73)
- production, 367–451, 549–52
- purchasing power, 773–76, 792–98, 859–60
- pure, 348–53, 370, 375–79, 790
- return, 734, 735(fig. 73), 909(n31)
- Schumpeter's views, 450
- spread, 521(fig. 61)
- time structure, 375–79, 414(fig. 50), 418(fig. 51), 445–51, 449(fig. 55)
- uniform, 408(fig. 47), 617
- zero, 450
- International trade, theory of, 1101
- Intervention
- analyzed, 875, 875(n1)
- autistic, 877, 1058, 1060(n4)
- bank, 997
- binary, 877, 879, 1058–63, 1060(n4), 1094(n13), 1116(n40), 1149–1295, 1253(n1)
- cartels, 634, 636
- checked, 884
- classified, 877
- coercive, 879
- conflict and, 1061–65
- consequences, 878, 879(n3)
- cumulative, 1367–69
- defined, 877
- depression, 581, 984, 1000, 1005
- praxeology, 875(n1), 877
- public utility, 702
- triangular, 878, 892–907, 1059, 1060, 1060(n4), 1075–1147
- transportation, 952
- types of, lvii
- typology, lvii, 877–78, 942
- utility, 878–85
- violent, 875–1041; see also Economics, violent intervention in market
- Invasion of property, 176–85, 182(n48)
- Inventions, 540, 961
- Inventories, 863(n71)
- Investments
- Austrian School, 535
- booms, 1006(n113)
- capital, 209, 532–33, 719
- choosing, 216, 219
- consumption, 860, 861(fig. 82), 997
- decisions, 63
- decreased, 532
- determined, 539
- earnings, 441
- entrepreneurship, 210, 517–27, 547–49, 950
- government, 967
- growth, 963
- Indian, 970(n83)
- interest, 859–60
- joint, 426, 438(fig. 53)
- Keynesian system, 860
- labor efficiency, 719
- malinvestments, 180, 1002, 1027
- marginal value product, 477
- multiplier, 866
- net, 517–27
- opportunities, 63(n37)
- period, 543
- planned, 54
- processes, 538(n26)
- production, 329, 426, 517–27, 539, 547–49
- profit and loss, 514
- reasons, 225
- renting, 294
- stock companies, 426, 951(n65)
- saving, 436, 533, 547–49, 872, 916(fig. 86)
- spending, 210
- subsidized, 965, 1037
- technology, 542
- theory, 535
- time preference, 531, 539, 995
- uncertainty, 60, 552
- underdeveloped countries, 542, 914(n34), 966(n77), 970
- wealth, 657, 743, 940, 1041(n152)
- yield, 423
- see also Capital, goods; Entrepreneurship; Speculation
- Invisible hand, 100, 100(n18), 876(n2)
- Isolation, 339
- Joint-stock company, 426–43, 438(fig. 53), 800, 951(n65)
- Judgment. See Valuation; Value scale
- Judiciary, independent, 1286
- Jungle, the, 1324–26, 1324(n20), 1329
- Jury service, compulsory, 878
- Keynesian paradigm, lviii
- Keynesian system
- acceleration principle, 868–74
- consumption function, 860–66
- critique of, lv(n44)
- economics, 1259
- employment, 582, 776, 778(fig. 78)
- expenditures, 776–85, 778(fig. 78), 780(fig. 79)
- fallacies, 859–68
- hoarding, 776–92
- income, social, 776–85, 778(fig. 78), 780(fig. 79), 859, 861(fig. 82)
- inflation, 784
- interest and investment, 789, 859, 861(fig. 82), 868
- liquidity preference, 785–92
- loan market, 371(n5), 792
- multiplier, 866–68
- theory, lvii
- unemployment, 776–85, 778(fig. 78), 780(fig. 79), 782(fig. 80)
- Kidnapping, 742(n90)
- Knowledge, technological, 527
- Labor
- allocated, 221, 648
- backward supply curve, 573
- capital, 506(n36)
- cost of training, 577
- demanders of present goods, 406, 572(fig. 63), 573(fig. 64)
- direct, 605
- disrupted, 950
- divisible factors, 95–102, 597
- division of, 96
- efficiency, 719
- employment, 582, 605, 780(fig. 79)
- goals, 879(n4)
- goods, 43
- Hutt's views, 631
- land, 368, 407, 481, 506(n36), 557–88
- legislation, 897(n22)
- leisure, 42–47, 217, 344
- management, 565, 598, 601
- marginal utility, 44, 217
- mobility, 586(n24)
- money reserve, 757
- monopoly, 717–19
- nature, 564–66
- pricing, 704–16
- prison, 1154(n7)
- ownership, 333
- rent, 557–88
- rights, 714(n66)
- scarcity, 365, 559, 692
- services, 206, 405, 564, 605, 757
- specific and nonspecific, 522
- submarginal, 563
- supply, 572–78, 572(fig. 63), 573(fig. 64)
- unemployment. See Unemployment
- unions
- arguments, 716–19
- building, 1100(n21)
- craft, 708
- coercion, 897, 897(n22), 975
- consequences, 714
- economics, 713
- efficiency and “Ricardo effect,” 718–19
- indeterminacy zone, 716–17
- industrial, 709
- minimum wage, 897
- praxeology, 712
- pricing of labor, 704–16
- private governments, 715
- Ricardo effect, 718–19
- strikebreaking, 712
- unemployment, 709
- voluntary, 897
- wages, 704, 705(n58), 718, 790
- work rules, 714
- value, 342(n14)
- see also Consumers; Producers; Production; Wages
- Laissez faire, 1048–49, 1056, 1300, 1340–56
- Land
- abundance, 366
- capitalization, 528–29, 530
- characteristics, 493
- costs, 342
- demand, 406, 568
- distribution, 618, 936(n50), 1204(n48)
- economic, 172, 485
- exchange, 169
- feudal, 1211–13, 1212(n56)
- first ownership, first user, 529
- Georgists, 171, 175, 570–72, 934–37, 936(n50), 937(n51), 1037
- geographic, 485
- goods
- grants, 405(n33)
- ground, 528, 935, 1037
- identified, 10
- income, 368, 528
- interest rate, 405(n24)
- labor, 368, 406, 481, 506(n36), 557–88
- marginal, 559, 694
- monopoly, 692
- owners, 170, 175, 333, 934–37, 936(n50)
- prices, 566, 569–70
- production, 169, 479–88, 557–88
- profits, 527
- raw, 169–75
- rent, 557–88
- resources, 485, 496, 570
- scarcity, 559, 692
- single tax, 937(n51)
- socialization, 935(n48)
- soil maintenance, 487
- speculation, 570–72, 1202(n46)
- submarginal, 563
- supply, 566–72
- tax, 934–37, 937(n51), 956(n68)
- urban, 486
- value, 171, 934–37, 1131(n65), 1199–1200
- zero-rent, 563
- see also Property
- Law
- Laws
- child labor, 1111–12, 1112(n36), 1113(n37)
- closing, 1115
- compulsory attendance, 1112, 1271(n14)
- conservation, 1089, 1122–33, 1122(n50), 1123(n51), 1124(n52), 1125(n55), 1126(n56), 1129(n62), 1132(n66)
- emigration, 1108(n32)
- immigration, 1107–10, 1109(n33), 1110(n34), 1146–47
- legal tender, 1083, 1083(n6)
- maximum hour, 1088–89, 1089(n10)
- minimum wage, 1114, 1114(n39)
- Leasing, 1128
- Lebensraum, 1146–47
- Legal tender. See Laws, legal tender
- Leisure
- Liability, limited, 1144(n78)
- Libertarian Law Code, 1053(n4)
- Licensing, 878, 903, 1094–96, 1095(n14), 1097(n16), 1141–42, 1142(n75), 1258(n4)
- Liquidity preference, 785–92, 791(n26)
- Loans
- Location
- Logic, 75
- deductive, liv
- Log-rolling, 102
- Long-run values, 359
- Losses. See Profits and losses
- Luck, 1333–34
- Ludwig von Mises Institute, lix, lx
- Lumpy factors, 1353
- Luxury, 987
- Macroeconomics, xxii, 269(n19)
- Marginal utility and choice, xxi
- Majority rule, 883, 1065–67, 1066(n9), 1067(n10)
- Maladjustment, 512(n1), 515, 1006(n113)
- Malinvestments, 180, 1002, 1027–28
- Malthusian controversy, 562
- Management, 564, 598, 601–02; see also Business; Entrepreneurship; Government; Ownership
- Marginal private costs, 950(n63)
- Marginal productivity, 453–507, 506(n36)
- Marginal social costs, 950(n63)
- Marginal utility
- Austrian School, 356(n21)
- buying and selling, 117, 239, 254, 276
- choice, 30, 279
- costs, 264, 276–79
- determined, 260
- equalization, 302
- exchange, 10, 86
- goods, 976
- labor, 46, 218
- law, 21–33, 73, 125
- leisure, 46, 218, 574(n14)
- measured, 27–28, 260, 314
- money
- product, 453–78, 461(fig. 56), 469(table 13), 472(fig. 59), 473(table 14), 500–04
- productivity, 578–80, 590, 1266(n10), 1347–56
- purchasing power, 263
- supply, 28, 260
- “total,” 314
- valuation, 30(fig. 4), 314, 453–78, 500–04
- want-satisfaction, 27
- Market economy
- attacks on, 338, 623, 1008
- banks and banking, 803–04
- binary intervention, 877, 880
- calculation and implicit earnings, 606–09
- capital. See Capital
- cartels, 905
- coercion, 1024–25
- consumer, action, 280, 339(n12), 451(n44), 629; see also Consumers
- continuous, 281
- credit expansion, 429–30, 439
- debtors, 180
- defense of, 1047–56, 1067, 1100, 1251
- economics, 79–1041
- error reduced, 885
- exchange, 187
- government, utility ex ante and ex post, 885–91
- harmony, 881, 876(n2)
- influence, 645, 966
- interest rate, 539, 550–52, 792, 999
- intervention, 875–1041
- invasive and noninvasive acts, 93, 176
- investments. See investments
- Keynes’ critique, 780
- loan, 371(n5), 377, 420–25, 435–43, 451(n44), 551
- mercantilist view, 880
- money, lvi, lvii, 235, 267, 375
- monopoly. See Monopoly
- natural, 551(n38)
- ownership. See Ownership
- penalties on, 1115–16
- poverty, 943, 943(n58), 975
- prices
- “present,” 292(n31)
- principle, 1365–69
- protection, 1047–56, 1067, 1100, 1251
- production. See Production
- purchasing power, 237
- purely free market, 1250(n87)
- purposes, 99, 609
- reactions, 999
- regional problems, 777(n12)
- research, 980
- savings. See Savings
- social utility, 879, 882, 891
- sovereignty, 629
- speculation, 157
- spending. See Spending
- stabilizing plans, 847
- static, 726(n74)
- stock companies, 426, 951(n65)
- summary, 624–27
- taxation, 912
- testing, 114
- trade, 959(n72)
- unemployment, 582, 783
- unhampered, 79–1041
- wages, 782(fig. 80), 783(fig. 81)
- see also Business; Capitalism; Choosing; Curves; Demands; Entrepreneurship; Schedules
- Markets, artificial, 1321(n16)
- Marriage contracts, 164(n35)
- Marshallian tax views, 910
- Marxism, 415, 765(n6), 1062
- Material, and economic, 12, 162
- Materialism, 1321–24
- Mathematics
- assumptions, 324(n1)
- Austrian, 627(n70)
- econometrics, 325(n2)
- equations, 323, 324, 616(n62), 831, 834(n54), 836
- functions, 306, 323, 326, 867
- equilibrium, 325(n2)
- gambling, 555
- human action, 326, 327(n5)
- in economics, 75, 306, 323, 324, 325(n2), 326(n3), 327(n4, n5), 470(n7), 785, 866
- indifference, 307
- liquidity preference, 785
- logic, 75
- logistics, 75
- marginal product, 37(table 1), 475–78, 500–04
- multiplier, 866–68
- numbers, 845
- praxeology, 75, 217
- probability theory, 60(n36), 553
- use, 313, 326(n3), 327(n5), 470(n7)
- value scales, 19
- variables, 845(n59)
- Means and ends
- Measurement
- Medicine, 743, 744(n92)
- Mercantilism, 880
- Mergers, cartels and corporations, 643–44
- Metaphors in economics, 970, 1001, 970(n81, n82)
- Microeconomics, xxii, 269(n19)
- Middle Ages, 1315–17
- Migration. See Location
- Minimum wage. See Laws, minimum wage
- Minorities, 1280(n20)
- Mint, monopoly of, 1082(n4), 1270
- Misesian paradigm, lix
- Model-building, 1358(n3)
- Monetary unit, 196–98, 237, 312, 620
- Money
- accounts, 198, 202, 863
- acquiring, 200, 209
- allocated, 219
- balance of payments, 198, 205, 210, 822–26, 825(table 16), 1011(n119)
- bills of exchange, 827–28
- bimetallism, 828, 899
- British Currency School, 1012
- buying and selling, 758
- cash holdings, 203, 850
- certificates, 803
- changes, 415, 762–64, 811–15
- checks, 804
- circularity, 268, 454, 535(n21), 760
- claims, 800-04
- clearing system, 771, 821–26
- co-existing, 828–31
- coining, 197(n7), 799, 800(n29)
- commodity, 192, 204, 764, 798–800, 851
- concept, 192
- consumer, 198, 201, 261, 298
- costs, 276, 353–62, 588, 674(n39)
- credit. See Credit; Credit expansion debts, 177, 178(n45), 439(n36), 440, 1028
- deflation, 917(n35), 1006
- demand, 650(n10), 756–62, 763(fig. 75), 767–98, 770(fig. 77), 816
- dollar origin, 197(n7)
- economy, 195, 233, 268, 281
- emergence, 189–95
- exchange
- expenditures. See Spending
- exports and imports, 202
- fiat, 1014, 1018(n127)
- gold. See Gold
- goods, attributes, 826–31
- Gresham's Law, 899
- holding, 276(n22)
- idle, 760, 767, 804(n30)
- income, 198–206, 210, 224
- inflation. See Inflation
- Keynesian system, 860
- labor demand, 757
- labor services, 206, 406
- marginal utility
- market, 235, 267, 375, 767–68
- Marshall, costs, and prices, 353–62
- Marshallian theory of quasi rents, 558
- measure of values, 851
- merging of assets, 426, 696; see also Joint-stock company
- nature, 851
- neutral, 773, 818
- nonproductive, 765
- numéraire, 851
- obtaining, 376
- 100-percent reserve, 804, 807, 810-11, 831(n47), 1007(n114)
- ownership, 194
- parallel standards, 831(n47)
- prices
- profits, 293, 811
- progressing economy, 560–61, 771, 817
- purchasing power. See Purchasing power of money
- quantitative, 849(n62)
- quasi, 827
- ranked, 261
- real, 917(n35)
- receipts, 803, 804(n31), 808
- regression, 268–76, 274(fig. 38), 1021
- relation, 526(n11), 756–64, 811–15
- reservation, 757
- silver, 828, 899
- speculative demand, 768–71
- stabilization, 843–51
- standard, 805
- stock
- subjective value, 764
- substitutes, 805–09, 1009
- supply, 650(n10), 756–62, 798–811
- token coins, 804
- turnover, 532(n15)
- use, 264, 386(n11)
- wages, 531, 782(fig. 80)
- warehouse, 800-04
- see also Banks and banking; Capital; Exchange
- Monopoly and competition, 1143–44
- antitrust laws, 907, 1117–21
- bilateral, 636(n4), 726
- cartels, 636–61, 907
- Chamberlin and selling costs, 736–38, 736(n84), 737(n86)
- charging what the traffic will bear, 663
- competition, 629–754, 732(fig. 71)
- consequences of shift, 732(fig. 71)
- consumer sovereignty, 629–36
- copyrights, 673(n38), 745–54, 746(n93), 748(n96, n97)
- corporations, 643–53
- cost, 734(fig. 72), 735
- countervailing power, 736(n83)
- creation, 670(n33)
- cutthroat, 681–87, 684(n48)
- defined, 661–71, 661(n22), 667(n29), 669(n30), 670(n32)
- domestic, 906(n27)
- England, 669
- environment, 675–76
- equilibrium, 727(fig. 70), 735(fig. 73)
- excess capacity, 726–36
- free competition, 653–58
- gain, 677–80, 691, 906
- grants, 903, 906, 1089–1147
- Hutt's views, 631–36
- illegal, 661(n22)
- imperfect, 720–38
- individual sovereignty, 629–30
- instability, 651–53
- labor, 704–19
- land, 692
- licenses, 903
- location, 698–702
- medicine, 744(n92)
- mergers, 643–44
- monopolistic competition, 664(n26), 720–38
- monopoly, 629–754, 1299
- monopsony and oligopoly, 717–18
- natural, 701–04, 703(n56)
- neoclassical theory, 672–75, 673(fig. 67)
- oil, 684(n48), 686(n51)
- patents, 745–54, 746(n95), 748(n96, n97), 753(n101)
- prices, lvii, 1090, 1130(n64), 1299
- privileges, 906(n27), 907(n28), 1143(n76)
- profit and gain, 677–80, 1090
- quasi, 903, 906
- refutation of, 1090(n11)
- scarcity, 692
- size, 645–51, 658–61
- technology, 645–51
- unhampered market, 687–98
- wages, 705, 705(n58)
- Monopsony and oligopsony, 717–18
- Montaigne fallacy, 880
- Morality, 177, 632, 636, 641
- Motivation, 1, 100, 324, 666(n27)
- Multiplier, 866–68
- Murder, 79, 81, 94, 877
- National defense, 1031
- “National income,” 397, 397(n15), 401, 401(n19), 777(n12), 988(n104)
- National product statistics, 1292–95
- Natural liberty, 1341–44
- Natural resources
- Navigation, private, 984(n99)
- Nazi system, 959
- Negotiable instruments, 181
- Neighborhood effects, 1292(n29)
- Neoclassical
- New York City taxicab industry, 906
- New York University, lx
- Noise, 182(n48)
- Oligopoly, 722
- Oligopsony and monopsony, 717–18, 1103(n26)
- 100-percent reserve, 810-11, 831(n47), 1002, 1007(n114)
- Organized crime, 1087(n8)
- Ownership
- agreements, 164(n34, n35)
- air, 92
- air lanes, 174(n41)
- airwaves, 173, 173(n40)
- appropriated, 169
- capitalist, 333, 345–48
- children, 93(n12)
- control, 659(n19)
- evidences, 165
- fraud, 183, 802, 1009(n117)
- freedom, 176
- function, 602
- Georgists, 171, 175
- goods, 93, 332
- government, 953, 955, 1029
- group, 433
- invasion, 176
- joint, 333–40, 426, 433
- labor, 333
- land, 170, 175, 333
- money, 194
- product, 333–40, 345–48, 337(n10)
- public, 955–57
- rights, 670, 745, 934(n47), 955
- rules, 800
- self, 92, 185, 164(n35)
- stock company, 427, 438(fig. 53), 951(n65), 800–01
- terms, 92
- water, 173, 174(n42)
- Parallel standards, 831(n47)
- Partnerships, 430; see also Joint-stock companies
- Past, influence, 65
- Patents and copyrights, 745–54, 746(n95), 748(n96, n97), 753(n101), 1133–38, 1133(n68, n69)
- Peasants, medieval, 1315(n14)
- Peddlers, outlawing, 907, 1315(n14)
- Permanence, 402(n20), 483, 484(n15, n16), 485(n19)
- Physical science model, liv
- Physics, 323, 326, 845
- Planning, 11, 279–80, 958–61, 1153(n6);
- see also Government; Prohibition
- Point Four, 542(n31)
- Politics, 886, 1058, 1058(n2), 1254 ff.
- Poor relief, 942, 943(n58), 1257–58
- Population, 561, 562(n7), 860(n70), 1109–10, 1316
- Positivism, xl–1
- Post offices, 951, 951(n64, n65), 955, 956(n67), 1265(n8), 1270
- Poverty, 942, 943(n58), 975, 1316–21, 1321(n17)
- Power, 1326–33
- Praxeology
- action, lix, 72–77, 877, 1025
- aesthetics, 74
- application of, xxxviii–l
- Austrian economics and, xxxii–xxxiv, liv, lv
- basis, 1–2, 307
- choosing, 306, 481
- defined, 299
- economics, 72–77
- ethics, 72, 74, 1297–1356
- function, 1025
- history, xxiii, 74
- intervention, 875(n1), 877
- mathematics, 75, 785
- philosophy, 73
- prediction, 64, 159, 293, 296
- principle, 99, 569(n12)
- psychology, 73, 74
- purchasing power, 849(n62)
- quantitative laws, 549
- technology, 74
- unions, 712
- utilities, 882(n8)
- vs. positivism, xl–1
- see also Human action
- Predictability, 1336
- Preferences
- Prices
- analyzed, 491
- bargaining, 362–66 , 456(n3)
- basing-point system, 621(n67)
- booms, 937, 1002, 1018
- buying and selling, 104, 106, 109(n23), 113, 127(table 3), 235, 739
- changes, 142–52, 288(table 10), 522
- competitive, 635, 681, 704, 903
- consumption, 16, 233–317
- control, 658(n17), 664(n26), 892–900, 893(fig. 83), 895(fig. 84), 1075–86, 1362(n8), 1365
- costs, xxxvi–xxxviii, 276–79, 356, 353–62, 588
- demand, 23, 114, 127, 139, 249–57
- determination, xxii, 106–26, 224, 238–57, 291, 663, 704(n57), 734(fig. 72), 815–18
- differential, 423, 996
- discrimination, 738, 742(n90), 745
- effects, 282
- equality, 695
- equilibrium. See Equilibrium, prices
- evenly rotating economy, 354, 453, 492
- exchange, 107, 142–53, 257
- factor, 353–66, 453–507, 557–627
- falling, 526, 790, 790(n25), 791(n26), 796
- final, 108, 134(fig. 21), 321, 325(n2), 879(n4)
- formation, 689(fig. 68)
- gains of exchange, 257–61
- gold, 273
- goods, 16, 142, 280–98, 288(table 10), 522
- government and marginal costs, 950
- inflationary, 1021
- interest rate, 371, 735(fig. 73)
- interrelations, 280–88
- labor, 704–16
- land, 566
- level, 238(n2), 269(n19), 358(n23), 775, 832
- location, 818
- marginal utility, 235, 261–80, 311–15
- market. See Market economy
- Marshall's views, 353–62
- maximum and minimum, 104, 893(fig. 83), 896(fig. 85)
- measured, 130(n27)
- money. See Money, prices
- monopoly. See Monopoly
- movement, 812
- multiform, 739–45
- planning and range of choice, 279–80
- present, 292(n31)
- production. See Production
- real, 525
- rent, 292, 488
- restrictionist, 704, 907(n28), 1096, 1107–12, 1130
- rising, 790(n25), 795
- services, 16, 288–98, 362, 590, 950, 790(n24)
- socialistic, 967
- supply and demand, 23, 114–15, 127, 138, 249–57
- theory, xx, xxiii, 611
- trade, 959(n72)
- utility, 276–79, 302–11, 611
- value, 236, 316
- welfare comparisons and consumer satisfaction, 298–302
- see also Wages
- Priorities and allocations, 1088
- Privileges, 906(n27), 907(n28)
- Probability, 60(n36), 553
- Producers
- Product
- average and marginal, 37(table 1), 468–75, 469(table 13), 472(fig. 59), 473(table 14)
- capitalist, 345–48
- control, 900–07
- demand, 95, 504
- definition (Rolph's), 504
- differentiation, 666(n28)
- marginal physical, 466–75, 469(table 13), 472(fig. 59), 473(table 14), 500–04
- marginal value, 453–78, 461(fig. 56), 466(fig. 57), 500–04
- ownership, 333–40, 337(n10), 345–48
- physical, 468–75
- priced. See Prices
- prohibition, 901
- value determined, 648
- see also Goods
- Production
- action principle, xxxix, 319–20, 332
- aggregate, 394
- Austrian theory, xxvi–xxviii, 627(n70)
- average physical product, 468–75, 472(fig. 59)
- bargaining, 362–66
- beneficiaries, 547–49
- booms, 1018
- capital, 47, 479–88, 527–43
- capitalism, xxxv–xxxvi, 345–48, 410–16
- centers, 507
- changing economy, 509–55
- choosing, 483
- classes, 10
- consumers, xxxv, 605–06
- convertibility, 38, 65
- cost, xxxvi–xxxviii, 340–45, 353–62, 588–600, 596, 618(n64)
- decisions, 687–88
- defined, 9
- demand, income, 416–20
- direction, 517
- discounting, 453–78, 504–07
- distribution fallacy, 622–24
- divisibility, 593
- effects, 142
- efficiencies, 597
- entrepreneurship and change, 509–55
- evenly rotating economy, 320–29, 513
- excess capacity, 726
- exchange, 88, 630(n2)
- expenditures, 206, 939
- factors
- concept, 9, 33–47, 593–94
- evenly rotating economy, 513
- income, 335(fig. 40), 369(fig. 41)
- indivisible, 593
- nonspecific, xxxix–xl
- original, lvii
- ownership, 333–40, 337(n10), 345–48
- pricing
- produced, lvii
- specific, xxxvi–xxix, 329–33, 331(fig. 39)
- world of purely specific, xxxvi, xxxvi(n37), xxxviii, xxxix
- future, 48
- general pricing of factors, 453–88
- gold, 776(n10)
- goods, 348–53, 391, 479–88, 630(n2)
- government, 939, 967
- Hayek's views, 517
- income
- increased, 42, 596
- innovation, 546–47
- insurance, 552–55
- interest rate, 367–451, 549–52
- introduction, 557
- inventions, 540, 961
- investments, 328, 426–27, 517–27, 539, 547–49
- joint-stock companies, 426–43
- labor, xxxv–xxxvii, 9, 42–47, 557–88
- land, xxxv, 170, 479–88, 557–88
- law of returns, 33–38, 468
- limited, 947
- loan market, 420–26, 435–43
- location and spatial relations, 617–22
- marginal physical product, 468–75, 472(fig. 59), 500–04
- marginal productivity, 578–80, 590
- marginal value product, 453–78, 461(fig. 56), 469(table 13), 504–07
- market, calculation and earnings, 606–09, 624
- Marshall's views, 353–62
- money, 353–62, 410–16
- natural resources, 496–500, 497(table 15)
- original, lvii
- ownership, 333–40, 345–48, 337(n10)
- particular factor prices and productive income, 557–627
- period, 9, 14, 51, 68, 483, 591(n32)
- permanence, 402(n20)
- phase, 646–47
- pricing
- process, 208(fig. 32), 539, 543, 959
- profit and loss, 509–16, 527–36, 650
- progressing economy, 549–50
- purchasing goods, 199, 237
- purpose, 649–50
- raw materials, 618(n64)
- rent, 488–95, 557–88
- restricted. See Monopoly
- risk, 552–55
- Rolph's discount theory, 504–07
- saving, 547–49, 788
- schedules, 390–410
- Schumpeter's views, 450
- services, 333(n8), 590, 605
- size of firm, 609, 645
- Soviet, 966
- specific, 329–33, 331(fig. 39)
- specialization, 95, 133, 153–61
- stages of, 102, 208(fig. 32), 407(fig. 46), 520
- structure, 8–9, 319–66, 524–43
- taxation, 914
- techniques, 544–47
- technology, 540, 647
- time market, 8–9, 42, 375–416, 443–50
- uncertainty, 552–55
- use, 649
- valuation, 34, 38–42
- value scales, 379–89
- vertical integration, 394, 609–16
- war, 927
- Productivity, marginal, 453–507, 506(n36)
- Profits and losses
- altruist view, 1323(n19)
- buying and selling, 289
- capital gains, 1174–80
- capital values in changing economy, 527–36, 1175(n26)
- competitive, 676, 684(n47)
- entrepreneurial, 509–16, 527–36, 682, 885, 895
- evenly rotating economy, government, 68, 948
- investments, 516
- land, 528
- large-scale, 795
- monetary, 293, 811–15
- monopoly, vs. monopoly gain to a factor, 677–80
- motive, 590, 948
- production. See Production
- progressing economy, 532, 535
- psychic, 277
- retrogressing economy, 532, 532(n16), 536
- social function, 514
- Progressing economy
- Prohibition, 901, 902(n24), 960, 1086–89
- Propaganda, 982
- Property
- acquired, 92, 183
- air pollution, 182
- appropriation, 169–76
- exchange, 91, 169
- frauds, 183, 803, 1009(n117)
- inalienable, 164
- intangible, 165
- invasion, 176–85
- physical, 183
- smoke, 182
- rights, lvi, 432(n29), 934(n47), 1047–48, 1127(n59), 1140(n72), 1161(n15), 1337–40, 1347 ff.
- see also Government; investments; Land; Ownership
- Proportional representation, 1283–84
- Protective tariff, 903, 906
- Provision, period, 17, 68
- Psychology, 73, 74, 308
- Public
- Purchasing power of money (PPM), 1332
- acceleration principle, 868–74
- balance of payments, 822–26, 825(table 16)
- bills of exchange, 827–28
- business
- changes, money relation, 762–64
- commodity, 238, 798–800
- consumption function, 860–66, 861(fig. 82)
- decline, 768
- demand, 756–98
- employment, 780(fig. 79), 783(fig. 81)
- equality, 620
- equation of exchange, 831–42
- evenly rotating economy, 767–68
- exchange, 818–22, 828–42
- gains and losses, 811–15
- geographic uniformity, 818–21
- goods
- hoarding, 776–92, 780(fig. 79)
- interest rate, 773–76, 792–98, 859–60
- introduction, 755
- investment and interest, 859–60
- Keynesian system, 776–92, 780(fig. 79), 859–68, 861(fig. 82)
- liquidity preference, 785–92
- marginal utility, 263
- market, 237, 767–68, 782(fig. 80), 783(fig. 81)
- measuring, 843–47
- Mises’ view, 269(n18)
- 100-percent reserve, 810–11
- parity, 829
- praxeology, 849(n62)
- “price level,” 238(n2)
- prices, determination: goods side and money side, 815–18
- quasi, 826–28
- ranking, 303
- relations, 756–67, 811–15
- Schumpeter's business cycles, 854–59
- secular demand, 771–72
- social income, 776–85, 778(fig. 78), 780(fig. 79), 861(fig. 82)
- speculative demand, 768–71
- spending, 776–85, 778(fig. 78), 780(fig. 79)
- stabilization, 847–51
- stock, 756–67, 798–800
- substitutes, 805–09
- tax, 937, 1023
- Purchasing power of money, lv
- Railroads, 545(n33), 594
- Rationalism, 310, 666(n27)
- Rationing, 902, 1087–88, 1088(n9)
- Realism, 1361(n7)
- Reasoning, 1, 74–75, 228–29, 454
- Redistribution, 988(n103)
- Regression, money, 268–76, 273(n20, 21), 276(n22), 1021
- Religious observance, 878
- Rent
- capitalization, 488–95
- concept, 560(n3)
- contracts, 295
- decision-making, 602
- defined, 290, 490(n24)
- demand, 294
- durable goods, 289
- evenly rotating economy, 558
- gross, 558
- investment, 294
- labor and land, 557–88, 692
- Marshallian theory, 558
- net, 558
- prices, 292, 488
- quasi, 559
- services, 290, 525
- time preference, 296
- wages, 559
- zero, 559
- Report requirements, 1115
- Representation, 1281 ff.
- Republics, 1066(n8), 1286(n25)
- Research, 750, 974(n91), 980
- Resources
- administered, 280(n26)
- allocating, 213–31
- classified, 497(table 15)
- depletable, 484(n15), 496–500, 694(n54), 1124(n54)
- economic, 172, 173(n42), 485
- exchangeable, 223
- idle, 692, 702
- industrial, 909
- land, 485, 496, 570
- natural, 171, 174(n42), 485, 496–500, 497(table 15)
- readjust, 909
- replaced, 497
- tastes and techniques, 562(n8)
- using, 938, 944–46
- variety, lvi
- wasted, 500(n33)
- see also Capital
- Restrictions, 704–16, 907, 907(n28); seealso Government
- Retrogressing economy, 532, 532(n16), 536
- Returns, 33–38, 320, 350, 467(n6), 468; see also Interest; Spending
- Revenue
- Review of Austrian Economics, lix
- Revolt, 81
- Ricardo effect, 718–19, 719(n70)
- Risks, 548, 550–55, 682, 886
- Roads, private, 984(n99)
- Robbery, 499
- Rotating economy. See Evenly rotating economy
- Russia, 959, 959(n72), 966, 971(n84)
- Sacrifice
- Safety codes, 1099–1101, 1100(n21)
- Satisfaction. see Want-satisfaction
- Savings
- aggregate, 517
- capitalists, 69, 346
- compulsory, 966
- consumption, 400, 413(fig. 49), 788
- determined, 539
- exceeded, 420
- government effects, 68, 1026
- gross, 397, 421
- growth, 963
- independent, 55(n33)
- investments, 436, 533, 547–49, 872, 916(fig. 86)
- money, 413(fig. 49)
- net, 397, 519(fig. 60)
- penalized, 918
- plain, 69
- planned, 54
- production, 421, 547, 788
- rate of return, 350
- stock company, 426, 435
- time preference, 410, 518, 531, 539, 916
- uncertainty and, 1313
- Scales. See Value scales
- Scarcity
- Schedules
- Schools, governmental, 945, 948, 954, 986
- Science, 357
- Securities and Exchange Commission, 1099, 1099(n20), 1346
- Security, 1313–15
- Self-interest, knowledge of, 1300–02
- Selfishness, 1321–24
- Selling. See Buying and selling
- Services
- capitalists, 348
- consumer, 12, 54, 605–06
- duration, 16, 290, 482
- exchangeable, 162
- free, 944
- government, 944, 950, 951(n65), 984
- importance, 68
- labor, 206, 405, 564, 606, 757
- market. See Market economy
- movement, 610(fig. 65)
- personal, 255, 605–06
- priced, 16, 288–98, 362, 590, 790(n24)
- production and consumption, 333(n8), 590
- rent, 525
- time preference, 289(n30)
- unit, 557
- see also Labor
- Shareholders, 431, 439
- Sherman Antitrust Act, 661(n22)
- Shifting and incidence, tax, 927–34
- Short-run values, 358
- Silver, 828, 828(n46), 899
- Sin of affluence, Galbraith, 973–88
- Single tax, 935, 935(n48), 937(n51), 956(n68)
- Slavery, 81, 94, 878, 987(n102)
- Small business costs, 1116(n40)
- Smoke, 182
- Social
- Social security, 957, 1271
- Socialism, 1272–76, 1366–67
- Soviet Russia, Society
- Soil, 487
- Sovereignty
- Soviet Russia, 958(n70), 959, 959(n71, n72), 960(n73), 961(n74), 969(n80), 971(n84), 1275
- Spatial relations, 617–22
- Specialization, 95, 102, 132–33, 153–61, 156(fig. 29)
- Speculation
- basis, 7
- buying and selling, 131
- demand, 130–37, 251, 768–71, 770(fig. 77)
- equilibrium, 250
- land, 570
- market, 157
- necessary, 510
- risks, 548, 550–55, 682, 885
- schedules, 131–35, 249
- self-correcting, 251
- supply and demand, 130–37, 251, 767–68, 770(fig. 77), 789–90
- see also Business; Investments; Profits and losses
- Spending
- allocated, 220, 948
- binary intervention, 938–61
- consumer, maintained, 403
- income, 198, 368, 396, 776–85, 778(fig. 78), 780(fig. 79), 823
- indirect exchange, 198–213
- investments, 210
- Keynes’ views, 776–85
- money, 198–206, 298
- present and future, 392, 403
- producer, 206–12, 938
- public, 938, 1041(n152)
- research, 750
- social, 863
- subsidy, 912–13, 926, 938
- unemployment, 776–85
- waste, 941
- see also Taxation
- Stabilization, 847–51, 865(n75)
- Standard Oil myth, 686(n51)
- Starvation, 654
- State
- State of rest, 143(n29)
- Stationary economy, 533, 627
- Stock
- companies, 426–43, 438(fig. 53), 801
- increase, effect, 150(fig. 26)
- market, 1276(n17)
- money, 204, 410–16, 412(fig. 48), 413(fig. 49), 762–64, 763(fig. 76)
- specialization and production, 153–61
- speculation, 130–37
- supply and demand, 130–42
- total demand to hold, 137–42, 139(fig. 23)
- withheld, 137, 139
- see also Goods
- Subsidies, 1094(n13), 1155(n9)
- Subway, 952, 952(n66), 1267(n11)
- Supply
- curves. See curves
- elasticity, 128
- equilibrium, 139
- labor and land, 566–78, 572(fig. 63), 573(n64)
- money, 798–811
- present goods, 395, 422
- prices, 23, 115, 127, 139, 249–57
- quantity, 26(fig. 3), 115(table 2)
- schedules. See Schedules
- speculation, 130–37
- units, 86
- utility, 26, 260
- variation, 466(fig. 57)
- see also Demand
- Supreme Court, 1050
- Surplus, 258, 261
- Switzerland, banks, 810(n35)
- Tabular standard, 848
- Taft-Hartley Act, 897(n22)
- Tariff, 826, 903, 906, 906(n27), 1101–07, 1102(n25), 1103(n26, n27), 1104(n28), 1129(n62), 1146
- Tastes, 562(n8)
- Tax
- Taxation, 1048, 1054–56, 1150(n2), 1151–1252
- ability to pay and, 1224–31, 1225(n66), 1235(n79)
- analysis, 910
- Austrian approach, 910
- barter, 914(n34)
- benefit principle, 908, 923, 932–33, 1225(n66), 1235(n79), 1236–38, 1242(n81), 1248(n85)
- binary intervention, 881(n6), 914–37
- business, 928–29, 930
- Chicago School, 912
- collection, 1034(n147)
- community, 881(n6)
- compulsory, 939(n54), 947, 1032
- consumption, 933
- cost principle, 922
- costs of collection, 1216–18, 1242(n81)
- development retarded, 914(n34)
- economic effects, 908, 914
- equal, 919
- excess purchasing power and, 1079(n2)
- free market, 912
- incidence; see also Taxation, shifting
- income, 914–19, 916(fig. 86), 920, 934
- industry, 927–30
- inflation, 1019
- justice and, 1216
- kind, 914(n34)
- land, 934–38
- Marshallian views, 912
- neutral, 908, 919–27, 1154, 1216, 1236, 1244–45
- payers and consumers, 908
- payment, 927
- production and consumption, 914
- progressive, 925, 1170(n23), 1183(n34), 1191–1194
- purchasing excess, 937, 1023
- revenue, 913, 938(n52), 1244
- sacrifice and, 1231–36, 1232(n76), 1233(n77), 1234(n78), 1235(n79), 1248(n85)
- sales, 930–34, 931(n45), 1256–62, 1157(n11), 1161(n15)m 1183(n34)
- shifting and incidence, 930–34, 1156–64
- single, 935, 937(n51), 956(n68)
- social security, 957
- spending, 909
- voluntary, 1246(n82), 1249(n86), 1250–52
- wages, 928, 1171
- Walrasian views, 910
- wartime, 926
- Taxes
- burdens and bounties, 880, 907, 932, 1197(n42)
- capital, accumulated, 1183–91, 1178(n27, n29)
- capital gains, 1174–83
- chain store, 1115
- consumption, 1161–62, 1169(n22), 1170(n23), 1172(n24), 1180–83
- corporate, 1115, 1159, 1171–73
- cost of collection, 1216–18
- equal, 1230, 1240–44
- excess profits, 1173
- excise, 1157(n10, n11), 1161(n15), 1162–64
- fictitious, 1151(n3)
- gift, 1185
- income, 1161, 1161(n15), 1164–83, 1174(n25), 1183–91, 1221–24
- inheritance, 1185
- licenses, 1093
- poll, 1247(n83)
- property, 1185–90, 1187(n36)1157(11), 1161(n15), 1183(n34)
- sales, 1156–62, 1157(n11), 1161(n15), 1183(n34)
- savings, 1170(n23)
- uniform, 1218–24, 1174(n25), 1178(n29)
- on wealth, 1190–91
- withholding, 1116(n40)
- Techniques, production, 544–47, 562(n8)
- Technocrats, 546(n35), 650(n10)
- Technology
- Textbook, contemporary, liii
- Theft, 177
- Thrift, 1036; see also Investments
- Timber, 1126(n56)
- Time
- action, 13–17, 13(fig. 1)
- banks and banking, 804(n30)
- barter, 271
- buying and selling, 157, 1102
- consumer, 8, 42, 404
- Georgist view of, 1199(n43)
- influence, 4
- market
- maturing, 70
- money regression, 268, 1021
- period, 455(n2)
- preference, lvii, 1124(n54), 1159, 1166–67, 1170(n23), 1278
- capitalists, and individual money stock, 410–16
- consumers, 377, 404, 451(n44), 789
- forces affecting, 443–44
- importance, 167, 320
- individual
- investments, 531, 539–40, 788, 995
- Knight's views, 504
- Mises-Fetter theory of, lvii
- production, 9, 42, 46, 51, 402
- rate, 62
- rentals, 296
- savings, 411, 517–18, 530–31, 539
- schedules. See Schedules, time preference
- services, 289(n30)
- structure and interest rate, 445–49, 449(fig. 55)
- want-satisfaction, 16(fig. 2), 50
- production and consumption, 8, 42, 46
- value scales, 379–89
- waiting, 15, 537
- working, 14
- Tolstoyans, 1251
- Total
- Trade
- Trademark, 664
- Traffic-manager analogy, 1334
- Transfer payments and subsidies, 942–44, 1253–58
- Transportation costs, 619, 820
- Triangular intervention, 878, 892–907
- Typology of intervention, 877–78, 942
- Uncertainty
- Underdeveloped countries, 542, 914(n34), 966(n77), 967(n78, n79), 970, 970(n83), 971(n85), 973(n87), 1334–35
- Unemployment
- Unions. See Labor, unions
- Use-value, 131, 223, 224, 253
- Utility
- buying and selling, 239, 254, 276
- costs, 266, 276–78
- equality, 307
- ex post: free-market and government, 885–91
- fallacies, 302–11
- goods, 288, 296, 375, 385
- intervention, direct effects, 878
- mathematics, 326(n3), 327(n5), 470(n7)
- measured, 28, 258, 313
- prices, 276–79, 302–11, 611
- size of unit, 307
- social, 879, 882, 891
- stock of money, 263, 764–67
- supply, 25, 260
- see also Marginal utility
- Vagrancy laws, 1119(n44)
- Valuation
- action, 309; see also Human action
- capital. See Capital
- change, 40, 527
- communistic, 172, 959, 959(n71, n72)
- consumer and producer, 569–70
- convertibility, 38–42, 65
- discounting, 453–507
- determination, 278(n23), 649
- ends, 17–21
- exchange, 88, 99, 131, 223, 758
- goods, 20, 288, 296, 343, 375, 384
- inequality, double, 103
- labor, 342(n14); see also Labor
- land, 171, 934–37
- long-run, 359
- maladjustments, 512(n1)
- marginal utility. See Marginal utility
- Marshall's views, 357
- Mises's views, 314
- prices, 236, 316–17
- process, 6, 20
- producer, 315, 569(n12)
- self-determined, 738
- services, 288
- short- and long-run, 357
- socialistic, 614, 659, 875, 958, 966
- speculation, 7, 510
- subjective, 343
- technological, 329
- unit, 288
- use, 131, 223, 224
- wealth, 657, 743, 988(n103), 989
- weighed, 11
- see also Value scale
- Value paradox, 22, 33
- Value scales
- action, 309
- buyers and sellers, 106–26, 111(fig. 12), 123(fig. 15), 125(fig. 16)
- exchange, 85, 88(figs. 5 and 6), 99(fig. 7)
- goods, kinds, 214
- income, 218, 633
- individual, 107, 239, 379–89
- marginal utility, 30(fig. 4)
- market, 243
- mathematics, 19
- money, 219, 261
- preference, 6, 17
- prices, 236, 836
- quantity of supply of means, 26(fig. 3)
- time, 6, 379–89, 383(table 11)
- Variation, human, 97(n16), 577(n16)
- Vertical integration, 367, 394, 609–16, 610(fig. 65), 610(n55), 611(fig. 66)
- Violence, 79–84, 875–1041
- Voting, 886, 890, 1070–74, 1247–52, 1288(n27), 1289–91
- Wages
- defined, 509, 559
- determination, 716
- difference, 577
- implicit, 565(n9), 601(n49), 606
- income, 575, 781
- increase, 578(n19), 579(n20)
- indeterminacy, 716
- inflation, 784
- land, rents, 557
- managerial, 601
- minimum, 784, 897
- monopoly, 705
- payment, 479
- rates
- rents, 558
- restrictionist, 707(fig. 69), 907
- services, 525
- taxation, 928
- unemployment, 585, 782(fig. 80), 783(fig. 81)
- union, 704, 705(n58), 718
- Wagner Act, 897(n22)
- Wagner-Taft-Hartley Act, 1114
- Waiting time, 15, 537
- Walrasian tax views, 910
- Want-satisfaction
- advertising, 666(n28), 738(n88), 888, 978, 978(n93)
- attained, 654
- collective, 1030
- consumer and welfare comparisons, 298
- disutility, 44, 49
- Galbraith's views, 977
- leisure, 43
- marginal utility, 27
- means and ends, 879(n4)
- satiation, 73
- scale, 18
- time, 15, 16(fig. 2), 49
- see also Human action; Valuation; Value scales
- War, 94, 926
- Wards, 1355
- Waste, 66, 637, 647, 941, 1041(n152)
- Water
- Wealth, 657, 743, 988, 988(n103); see also Capital; Income; Investments; Money
- Welfare economics, 1360–62
- Welfare, comparisons and consumer satisfaction, 298–302, 723(n72)
- Wicksteedian theory of price, 817
- World
- Worst on top, 1266(n9)
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