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Capitalist enterprise and social progress / by Maurice Dobb.

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Dobb, Maurice, 1900-1976

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Studies in economics and political science ; no. 81Publication details: London : George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1925.Description: x, 400 pages : diagrams ; 23 cmSubject(s):

LOC classification:

HB 501 .D56 1925

Contents:

Part one. Analytical - Chapter one: The framing of the problem -- Chapter two: Entrepreneur theories -- Chapter three: The entrepreneur function -- Chapter four: Capitalist undertaking -- Chapter five: Profit theories -- Chapter six: The profits of undertaking -- Chapter seven: The theory of monopoly and advantage -- Chapter eight:Profit and economic change -- Chapter nine: Advantage and class -- Chapter ten: Monopoly and social theory -- Chapter eleven: The effects of monopoly --

Part two. Historical - Chapter twelve: The origins of town enterprise -- Chapter thirteen: The struggle for market control -- Chapter fourteen: The town monopoly -- Chapter fifteen: The beginnings of capitalist enterprise -- Chapter sixteen: The transition in England -- Chapter seventeen: The national market and mercantilism -- Chapter eighteen: The rise of the wage-system -- Chapter nineteen: The first period of capitalist undertaking -- Chapter twenty: The nineteenth century -- Chapter twenty - one: An unfinished page --

Part three. Applied - Chapter twenty-two: The problems of economic control -- Chapter twenty-three: The problems of economic control -- Chapter twenty-four: Crossways.

Summary: "Part 1 of this volume analyses the main issues in the theory of Applied Economics. Part 2 surveys the rise of capitalist enterprise and indicates the importance of certain institutions in the growth and working of the economic system at the start of the twentieth century. The concluding chapters stress the relevance of these considerations to the problems facing politicians and administrators." -- Routledge

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOKS	Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks	The Karl H. Niebyl Collection	HB 501 .D56 1925 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan		NPML19070012

"No. 81 in the series of monographs by writers connected with the London School of Economics and Political Science." -- title page.

Part three. Applied - Chapter twenty-two: The problems of economic control -- Chapter twenty-three: The problems of economic control -- Chapter twenty-four: Crossways.

"Part 1 of this volume analyses the main issues in the theory of Applied Economics. Part 2 surveys the rise of capitalist enterprise and indicates the importance of certain institutions in the growth and working of the economic system at the start of the twentieth century. The concluding chapters stress the relevance of these considerations to the problems facing politicians and administrators." -- Routledge

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