Principles of Economics, The Appendices


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Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the book in 1881, and he spent much of the next decade at work on it.

His plan for the work gradually extended to a two-volume compilation on the whole of economic thought; the first volume was published in 1890 to worldwide acclaim that established him as one of the leading economists of his time. It brought the ideas of supply and demand, of marginal utility and of the costs of production into a coherent whole, and became the dominant economic textbook in England for a long period. The second volume, which was to address foreign trade, money, trade fluctuations, taxation, and collectivism, was never published at all. (Summary from Wikipedia)

This reading is based on the eighth edition, published in 1920. (6 hr 59 min)

Chapters

Appendix A: The Growth of Free Industry, Part 1 43:36 Read by Rhonda Federman
Appendix A: The Growth of Free Industry, Part 2 45:35 Read by Rhonda Federman
Appendix B: The Growth of Economic Science 39:19 Read by Rhonda Federman
Appendix C: The Scope and Method of Economics 37:36 Read by Rhonda Federman
Appendix D: Uses of Abstract Reasoning in Economics 9:59 Read by icyjumbo (1964-2010)
Appendix E: Definitions of Capital 13:05 Read by Sibella Denton
Appendix F: Barter 9:12 Read by Sibella Denton
Appendix G: The Incidence Of Local Rates 57:21 Read by webround
Appendix H: Limitations of the Use of Statical Assumptions 30:37 Read by Sibella Denton
Appendix I: Ricardo’s Theory of Value 11:56 Read by Sibella Denton
Appendix J: Doctrine of the Wages-fund 24:01 Read by Sibella Denton
Appendix K: Certain Kinds of Surplus 21:41 Read by Sibella Denton
Appendix L: Ricardo’s Doctrine As To Taxes 8:21 Read by Sibella Denton
Mathematical Appendix, Part 1 14:49 Read by Carl Manchester
Mathematical Appendix, Part 2 32:31 Read by Carl Manchester