Preface
Introduction
Part 1: The Nature of an Economic System
1. Social Economic Organization
Part 2: The Method of Economic Analysis
2. The Methodology of Positive Economics
by Milton Friedman
3. Operational Propositions in Economic Theory
by Donald F. Gordon
4. Assumptions in Economic theory
by Ernest Nagel
Part 3: Demand
Utility Theory and Consumers´ Surplus
5. The Meaning of Utility Measurement
by Armen A. Alchian
6. Professor Hicks´Revision of Demand Theory
by Fritz Machlup
The Demand Curve
7. The Marshallian Demand Curve
by Milton Fridman
8. The Marshallian Demand Curve
by Martín J. Bailey
9. Bandwagon, Snob, and Veblen Effects in the Theory of Consumers´Demand
by Harvey Leibenstein
Part 4: Supply
Production, Costs, and Pricing
10. Omissions in the Treatment of the Law of Variable Proportions
by Om P. Tangri
11. The Division of Labor is Limited by the Extent of the Market
by George J. Stigler
12. Cost and Outputs
by Armen A. Alchian
13.Mathematical or "Linear" Programming
by Robert Dorfman
Applications of the Theory of Production
14. The Factor Proportions Problem in Underdeveloped Areas
by R. S. Eckaus
15. Some Economic Aspects of Fissionable Materials
by Stephen Enke
Part 5: Market Structure
The Polar Cases of Competition and Monopoly
16. What id Perfect Competition?
by Joan Robinson
17. The Concept of Monopoly and the Measurement of Monopoly Power
by Abba P. Lerner
Imperfect Competition
18. Excess Capacity and Monopolistic Competition
by J. M. Cassels
19. Advertising Expenditures: A Suggested Treatment
by Norman S. Buchanan
20. The Plateau Demand Curve and Utility Theory
by G. Warren Nutter
21. Duopoly, Oligopoly, and Emerging Competition
by G. Warren Nutter
22. Multiple-Plant Firms, Cartels, and Imperfect Competition
by Don Patinkin
23. Price Discrimination in Medicine
by Reuben A. Kessel
Part 6: Microeconomics of Income Distribution
24. Euler´s Theorem and the Problem of Distribution
by Joan Robinson
25. A Reformulation of Naive Profit Theory
by Martin Bronfenbrenner
26. The Grometry of Capital and Interest: A Suggested Simplification
by Donald Dewey
27. The Effects of Unions on Resource Allocation
by Albert Rees
Part 7: General Equilibrium, Welfare, and Allocation
General Equilibrium, Welfare, and Allocation
28. The Simple Analytics of Welfare Maximization
by Francis M. Bator
29. Efficient Allocation of Resources
by T. C. Koopmans
The Distinction Between Private and Social Benefits and Costs
30. The Problem of Social Cost
by Ronald Coase
31. The Anatomy of Market Failure
by Francis M. Bator
32. Externality
by James M. Buchanan and William Craig Stubblebine