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The Accumulation of Capital

by Joan Robinson

Pages: 440

Contributors: Joan Robinson

Publisher: Macmillan Company

Place of Publication: London

Publication Year: 1965

Subjects: Saving And Investment

Table of Contents

Title Page

Preface

Contents

Book I: Introduction

Chapter I: The Classes of Income

Chapter 2: The Meaning of Wealth

Chapter 3: The Meaning of Money

Chapter 4: Capital and Income

Chapter 5: Consumption and Investment

Chapter 6: The Meaning of Equilibrium

Book II: Accumulation in the Long Run

Chapter 7: A Simple Model

Section I: Accumulation with One Technique

Chapter 9: Technical Progress

Section II: The Technical Frontier

Chapter 11: The Evaluation of Capital

Chapter 12: The Technical Frontier in A Golden Age

Chapter 13: Productivity and the Real-Capital Ratio

Chapter 14: Accumulation Without Inventions

Chapter 15: A Surplus of Labour

Section III: Accumulation and Technical Progress

Chapter 17: Accumulation with Biased Progress

Book III: The Short Period

Chapter 19: Prices and Profits

Chapter 20: Wages and Prices

Chapter 21: Fluctuations in the Rate of Investment

Chapter 22: Cycles and Trends

Book IV: Finance

Chapter 23: Money and Finance

Chapter 24: The Rates of Interest

Book V: The Rentier

Chapter 25: Consumption of Profits

Chapter 26: Consumption and Accumulation in the Long Run

Chapter 27: Rentiers and the Trade Cycle

Chapter 28: Rentiers and Finance

Book VI: Land

Chapter 29: Land and Labour

Chapter 30: Factor Ratios and Techniques

Chapter 31: Land and Accumulation

Chapter 32: Land, Labour and Accumulation

Chapter 33: Increasing and Diminishing Returns

Book VII: Relative Prices

Chapter 34: Supply and Demand

Book VIII: International Trade

Chapter 35: External Investment

Chapter 36: International Investment

Conclusion

Notes on Various Topics

Diagrams

The Value of Invested Capital

Index

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