Knut Wicksell [electronic resource] : selected essays in economics. Volume 2 / edited by Bo Sandelin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wicksell, Knut, 1851-1926.

Contributor:

Sandelin, Bo, 1942-

Standardized Title:

Essays. English. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Selected essays in economics

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume contains translations of articles originally written in Swedish and German and focus on money and price theory, population and Wicksell's book reviews including reviews of Leon Walras, Ludwig von Mises and John Bates Clark.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; ON USURY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF ECONOMIC THEORY; THE MONETARY PROBLEMS OF THE FUTURE; STABILIZING THE VALUE OF MONEY: A MEANS OF PREVENTING CRISES; THE MONEY RATE OF INTEREST AND COMMODITY PRICES; THE REGULATION OF THE VALUE OF MONEY; THE GOLD RESERVE OF THE RIKSBANK; THE RATE OF EXCHANGE AND THE BANK RATE; THE SCANDINAVIAN MONETARY SYSTEM AFTER THE {FIRST WORLD} WAR; A FEW REMARKS ON THE CHIEF CAUSE OF SOCIAL MISFORTUNES AND THE BEST MEANS TO REMEDY THEM, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO DRUNKENNESS; OVERPRODUCTION; OR OVERPOPULATION?

CAN A COUNTRY BECOME UNDERPOPULATED?FROM THE EMIGRATION INQUIRY, APPENDIX 18: STATEMENTS BY SWEDISH MEN OF SCIENCE; LON WALRAS, TUDES D'CONOMIE SOCIALE {STUDIES IN SOCIAL ECONOMY}; LON WALRAS, TUDES D'CONOMIE POLITIQUE APPLIQUE {STUDIES IN APPLIED ECONOMICS}; CHARLES GIDE, NATIONALEKONOMIENS GRUNDDRAG {THE PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS}; FERNANDO LINDERBERG, KARL MARX OG DEN HISTORISKE SOCIALISME {KARL MARX AND HISTORICAL SOCIALISM}; EDWIN R.A.SELIGMAN, THE SHIFTING AND INCIDENCE OF TAXATION

JOHN BATES CLARK, THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH: A THEORY OF WAGES, INTEREST AND PROFITS, and JOHN A.HOBSON, THE ECONOMICS OF DISTRIBUTIONGEORG FRIEDRICH KNAPP, DIE STAATLICHE THEORIE DES GELDES {THE STATE THEORY OF MONEY}; LUDWIG VON MISES, THEORIE DES GELDES UND DER UMLAUFSMITTEL {THE THEORY OF MONEY AND CREDIT}; KARL HELFFERICH, DEUTSCHLANDS VOLKSWOHLSTAND 1888 1913 {GERMANY'S NATIONAL WEALTH 1888 1913}; GOETZ BRIEFS, UNTERSUCHUNGEN ZUR KLASSISCHEN NATIONALKONOMIE {STUDIES IN CLASSICAL ECONOMICS}; JOHN STUART MILL, OM FRIHETEN {ON LIBERTY}; Index

Notes:

Translated from German or Swedish.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-73209-0

0-429-23197-0

1-134-73210-4

1-280-31833-3

9786610318339

0-203-44355-1

0-203-27644-2

9780429231971

OCLC:

437080483