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(Worth every penny!)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Elements Of Value And Price\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Purpose And Nature Of Economics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: Choice And Value\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: Goods And Psychic Income\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Principles Of Evaluation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Trade By Barter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Money And Markets\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: Principles Of Price\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: Competition And Monopoly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Usance And Rent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: Agents For Changing Stuff And Form\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: Agents For Effecting Changes Of Place And Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11: Consumption And Duration\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12: The Principle Of Proportionality\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13: The Concept Of Usance-Value\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14: The Renting Contract\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15: Principles Of Rent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Valuable Human Services, And Wages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16: Human Beings And Their Economic Services\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17: Conditions For Efficient Labor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 18: The Value Of Labor And The Choice Of Occupations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 19: Principles Of Wages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: Time-Value And Interest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 20: Time-Preference\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 21: Rate Of Time-Preference\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 22: Money And Capitalization\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 23: Capitalization Of Monetary Incomes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 24: Saving And Borrowing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 25: Capitalization And Interest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart V: Enterprise And Profit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 26: Enterprise\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 27: Management\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 28: Profits And Costs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 29: Various Shades Of Profits\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 30: Costs And Competitive Prices\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 31: Monopoly-Prices; Large Production\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart VI: Dynamic Changes In Economic Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 32: The Problem Of Population\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 33: Volitional Doctrine Of Population\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 34: Decreasing And Increasing Returns\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 35: Basic Material Resources: Their Use, Consumption, And Conservation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 36: Machinery And Wages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 37: Waste And Luxury\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 38: Abstinence And Production\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 39: Value Theory And Social Welfare\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e****\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn excerpt from the beginning of \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 1\u003cbr\u003ePURPOSE AND NATURE OF ECONOMICS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e§ 1. Definition of economics. § 2. Economics contrasted with the natural sciences. § 3. Science as abstraction. § 4. Science and art. § 5. Place of economics among the sciences. § 6. Subdivisions of economics. § 7. Economy in the sense of the subject studied. § 8. Economy not parsimony. § 9. Social aims of economics. § 10. Economics in a democracy. Note on Economic laws and other terms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e§ 1. Definition of economics. Economics may be defined, briefly, as the study of men earning a living; or, more fully, as the study of the material world and of the activities and mutual relations of men so far as all these are the objective conditions to the gratification and to the welfare of men. The ideas of most persons on this subject are vague, yet it would be very desirable if the student could approach this study with an exact understanding of the nature of the questions with which it deals. Until a subject has been studied, however, a definition in mere words but slightly aids in marking it off clearly in our thought. The student must first try to see the general field of facts and of human interests that economics covers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e§ 2. Economics contrasted with the natural sciences. Economics may be contrasted with the natural sciences, which deal with material things and their mutual relations. A definition that suggests clear and familiar thoughts to the student seems at first much more difficult to get in economics than in the natural sciences. These deal with concrete, material things which we are accustomed to see, handle, and measure. If a child is told that botany is a study in which he may learn about flowers, trees, and plants, the answer is fairly satisfying, for he at once thinks of many things of that kind. When, in like manner, zoölogy is defined as the study of animals, or geology as the study of rocks and the earth, the words call up memories of many familiar objects. Even so difficult and foreign-looking a word as ichthyology seems to be made clear by the statement that it is the name of the study in which one learns about fish. It is true that there may be some misunderstanding as to the way in which these subjects are studied, for botany is not in the main to teach how to cultivate plants in the garden, nor ichthyology how to catch fish or to propagate them in a pond. But the main purpose of these studies is easily made clear at the outset; it is to know about the natural objects themselves. 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