Income: an introduction to economics/ by A.C. Pigou.

Includes bibliographical foot-notes.

I. The national income: definition and measurement -- II. Internal influences affecting income-getting power -- III. External influences affecting income-getting power -- IV. The allocation of income-getting power among different sorts of production -- V. The role of government in production -- VI. The proportion of income-getting power at work on the average and by different times -- VII. The distribution of income among people -- Epilogue.

"Based on and in the main reproduces seven lectures given in Cambridge ... in the Lent term of 1945.Its purpose is to provide an outline sketch of an important part of economics that shall be intelligible and, if possible, interesting to non-economists. The first chapter, while logically necessary to the development of the argument, is, I am afraid, rather arid; some readers may prefer ti start with Chapter II..." -- from Prefatory note.

"This little book has been centered round the idea of Income. ... This way of introducing Economics to students beginning the subject, or to the general reader, has, as it seems to me, considerable advantages. It is less forbidding than an approach, say, by way of 'the laws of demand and supply', and, since it lends itself to statistical illustration, is, in a sense, realistic. A very substantial part of the subject matter of Economics can be indicated and discussed, of course at an elementary level,along these lines; -- and that without entering at any length upon matters of controversy.. ..." - from Epilogue.

From the library of Karl and Elizabeth Niebyl.