VIII. The Pure Theory of Optimum Investment in Fixed Capital

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. I. Introduction 1
5. A Note on Terminology 21
6. Part One. History of the Theory of Marginal-Cost Price-Output Control
7. II. The First Foreshadowings of Marginal-Cost Price-Output Theory, 1885 to 1923 25
8. III. Marshall’s Tax-Subsidy Proposal 36
9. IV. The First Statements of the Theory of Marginal-Cost Control – Socialist Price-Output Theory from 1933 to 1939 56
10. V. The Application of Marginal-Cost Price-Output Theory to Railroad and Public Utility Rate Theory, 1938 to 1947 80
11. VI. The Development of Marginal-Cost Price-Output Theory as a General Price-Output Theory, 1942 to 1950 117
12. Part Two. A Restatement of Marginal-Cost Price-Output Theory
13. VII. The Pure Theory of Marginal-Cost Price-Output Control 173
14. VIII. The Pure Theory of Optimum Investment in Fixed Capital 204
15. IX. Methods of Financing Ideal Deficits 217
16. X. The Application of Marginal-Cost Price-Output Theory 226
17. XI. The General Economic Effects of Ideal Price-Output Control and Investment 262
18. Bibliography 273
19. Index 279