The nature of capital and income

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Identifikator:: 102659555X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-82920

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Fisher, Irving http://d-nb.info/gnd/118533541

Title:: The nature of capital and income

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: The Macmillan Company

Year of publication:: 1923

Scope:: XXI, 427 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2019

Collection:: Economics Books

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PREFACE THIS book is an attempt to put on a rational foundation the concepts and fundamental theorems of capital and income. It therefore forms a sort of philosophy of eco- nomic accounting, and, it is hoped, may supply a link long missing between the ideas and usages underlying prac- tical business transactions and the theories of abstract economics. To some readers it may seem that certain elementary topics have been treated at undue length ; but, as experience shows that economic structures built on hasty and inadequate generalizations inevitably collapse, it seems hardly possible to take too much pains in making the foundations secure. On the other hand, topics which are in their nature technical or which digress from the main theme — and in particular mathematical formule — have been relegated to appendices. Many of the theses maintained will undoubtedly fail to command assent on a first reading, for in any orderly presentation of a subject it is impossible to forestall all objections as they occur. The aim has been to pre- serve a definite sequence by which each step prepares the way for those which follow; but this plan has ne- cessitated the postponement of some topics beyond the point at which a consciousness of their difficulties might begin to trouble the reader. He is therefore asked to stay judgment until he has finished the work, and, if necessary, to reread those parts in which his diffi- culties were first encountered. This suggestion is espe- cially urged in regard to the treatment of income, the concept of which forms the central theme of the book. Many of the friendly critics to whom the manuscript has vu

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