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Extremely confusing and dull Очень запутанный и скучный Erittäin sekava ja tylsä Extremely confusing and dullThe property of confusingness is completely due to Kindle. At the same time as the screen has been improved and become almost satisfactory for easy reading and page numbering introduced as an alternative for location markings, this book is split into two parts: one with reasonable page numbering and the other provided with a single page number of 285. What is the sense of this big blunder? Of course no sense. The other property of dullness is a relative one, could be due to the author or to the reader. In this case I am ready to take it completely on my account. It is only confusing that I have just read another book by the same author about broadly the same subject matter, not finding it at all dull reading, but very entertaining instead! (This dull Principles of Economics and the other entertaining Elements of Economics of Industry). This dull Principles was published in 1890 and the entertaining Elements only two years later in 1892. Has the author been able to improve so completely or has the reader so completely dropped to a low mood. The latter seems more probable although does not feel so at all. There is, however, a hint that some other readers might have felt the same way as the present. Included in this present volume, in its latter equally sized part as the first, there is a comprehensive another treatment of the same subject matters as in the first part. Maybe it is more entertaining? But at least just now, this reader is too fed up with principles of economics to risk another adventure on the all-embracing next page of 285. Instead giving indignantly the lowest ever number of stars 2* as assessment of this book. ajk Очень запутанный и скучныйСвойство путаницы полностью связано с Kindle. В то же время, когда экран был улучшен и стал почти удовлетворительным для удобного чтения и нумерации страниц, представленной в качестве альтернативы для маркировки местоположений location, эта книга разделена на две части: одна с разумной нумерацией страниц, а другая - с одним номером страницы 285. В чем смысл этой большой ошибки? Конечно нет смысла. Другое свойство тупости является относительным, может быть связано с автором или читателем. В этом случае я готов полностью принять это на свой счет. Это только сбивает с толку, что я только что прочитал другую книгу того же автора о широко той же теме, не находя это вообще скучным чтением, но очень интересным вместо этого! (Это скучные Principles of Economics и прочие развлекательные Elements of Economics). Эти скучные «Принципы» были опубликованы в 1890 году, а «Интересные элементы» - только два года спустя, в 1892 году. Удалось ли автору добиться такого полного совершенствования, или читатель настолько упал до плохого настроения? Последнее кажется более вероятным, хотя вовсе не ощущается. Однако есть намек на то, что некоторые другие читатели чувствовали то же самое, что и настоящее. Включенный в этот настоящий том, в его последней равной по размеру части, как и в первой, есть еще один комплексный подход к тем же предметам, что и в первой части. Может быть, это более интересно? Но, по крайней мере, сейчас, этот читатель слишком сыт по горло принципами экономики, чтобы рисковать новым приключением на всеобъемлющей следующей странице 285. Вместо этого, с возмущением приводя самое низкое из когда-либо чисел звезд 2* в качестве оценки этой книги. g&a Erittäin sekava ja tylsäHämmennyksen ominaisuus johtuu täysin Kindlestä. Samaan aikaan kun näyttöä on parannettu ja siitä on tullut melkein tyydyttävää helppoa lukemista ja sivunumerointi on otettu käyttöön vaihtoehtona location sijaintimerkinnöille, tämä kirja on jaettu kahteen osaan: toiseen jossa on järkevä sivunumerointi ja toiseen jossa on vain yksi sivunumero 285. Mikä on tämän suuren köömmähdyksen idea ja järki? Ei tietysti mitään järkeä. Tylsyyden toinen ominaisuus on suhteellinen, johtuu tekijästä tai lukijasta. Tässä tapauksessa olen valmis ottamaan sen kokonaan tililleni. On hämmentävää, että olen juuri lukenut saman kirjailijan toisen kirjan laajasti tai pikemminkin tiukasti ottaen samasta aiheesta, enkä ole pitänyt sitä lainkaan tylsänä lukemisena, vaan sen sijaan erittäin viihdyttävänä! (Tämä tylsä Principles of Economics ja se toinen viihdyttävät Elements of Economics). Tämä tylsä julkaistiin vuonna 1890 ja viihdyttävä vain kaksi vuotta myöhemmin vuonna 1892. Onko kirjailija pystynyt parantamaan näin nopeasti vai onko lukija niin täysin pudonnut tylsyyteen? Jälkimmäinen näyttää todennäköisemmältä, vaikka ei tunnu siltä ollenkaan. On kuitenkin olemassa vihje, että jotkut muut lukijat olisivat voineet tuntea samalla tavalla kuin nykyinen. Tähän nykyiseen osaan sisältyy, sen jälkimmäiseen yhtä suureen osaan kuin ensimmäinen, kattava toinen käsittely samasta aiheesta kuin on ensimmäisessä osassa. Ehkä se on viihdyttävämpi? Mutta ainakin juuri nyt, tämä lukija on liian kyllästynyt taloustieteen periaatteisiin riskeeratakseen uuteen seikkailuun kaiken kattavalle seuraavalle sivulle. Sen sijaan annan harmistuneena kaikkien aikojen pienimmän määrän tähtiä 2* omana tämän kirjan arviointina. g&a
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Huomautukset Remarks Замечания20200118-KindleWhat do my 82 years old eyes still see! Reading Introduction to Marshall's Principles of Economics, screen bottom with page numbers instead of Locations, just the way I have been suggesting. Hurrah, Kindle! Hope only that this is a permanent innovation in Kindle, a good example for all other reading programs.Another praiseworth innovation from the reader's point of view is the adding of violet summaries, maybe direct transformations from the squared as used in another ebook by Marshall. |
20200124-KindleEither you are mad or you are driving me skitsofrenic with your completely foolish combination of location and page numbering and secret number, letter, Roman number confusion or has Marshall been sick and then recovered when writing Economics of Industry.! This last suspicion arises from the first 30 pages of the text, a confused bla bla compared with the text of Economics. Interesting to see what follows. Not intending of abandon the book, however.A constructive suggestion for you: Drop altogether the Kindle way of serving book to the reader. Make all your books Adobe Acrobat. I am reading another book in Acrobat. Ten times more pleasant than your skitsofrenic confusion. |
20200126-KindleIt seems more and more evident that these violet remarks constitute a good summary of the book. Why not publish them as a list at the end of the book? Indeed, they really constitute a gold summary of thd book. They should be used in all this kind of educative texts. I have established a new category for them in my reading notess and will myself separate this kind of notes if not provided originally like here. In mind another author who gives all along this kind of mini summaries. I regreet having written about skitsofrenic confusion. These summries change the situation. |
20200128Very dull reading. Too detailed and too abstract |
20200130-KindleOn behalf of millions of readers thank you very, very much for the improved bottom line! Current page number of total and even percentage of total. My time for making notes has shortened to half of what it used to be. Now on page 93 of 285. Only 33% and not 17% as the new bottom line maintains. But that is a minor blunder and not a big blunder as has been the whole use of location. I am pretty sure that no reader has complained, but many praised this really big improvement. Welcome reason and goodbye typing of unnecessary digits in notes!Thank you also for the frequent colored summaries of the text. They are really ingenious. I only wonder, wht is their origin, Marshall or Amazon. If M, he could almost have left out the long text. It is extremely dull, mole path under the soil in glaring contradiction to Marshall's later text in his book Economics of the Industry. Astonishing! Amazon helping the classic to be understood! Hoorray! |
20200210-KindleI am confused. All 285 pages of the book: reading completed, but still only 50% and aa lot of headings given with the page number 285. The device has turned extremely slow. Maybe because the internal memory is almost full, 5mb of 32gb. SD is almost unused, less than 5mb used of 32gb. I would perhaps try something, but am discouraged, because the book has been extremely dull reading.Highest possible praise and honour to Kindle for improvements of the reading screen! They have halved the time needed for making notes. Special thanks for the possibility of using page numbers instead of locations. Hope this continues with other books and I never more need see location markings.
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| 4 | 0001 | Introduction Peter Groenewegen |
| 4 | 0002 | Preface to the First Edition |
| 4 | 0003 | Preface to the Eighth Edition |
| 8 | 01 | BOOK I PRELIMINARY SURVEY 535 |
| 8 | 0101 | CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 535 |
| 8 | 010101 | I, I, 1. § 1. POLITICAL ECONOMY or ECONOMICS 536 |
| 8 | 02 | Book I Preliminary Survey |
| 8 | 0201 | 1 Introduction |
| 14 | 0202 | 2 The Substance of Economics |
| 26 | 0203 | 4 The Order and Aims of Economic Studies |
| 31 | 03 | Book II Some Fundamental Notions |
| 31 | 0301 | 1 Introductory |
| 34 | 0302 | 2 Wealth |
| 40 | 0303 | 3 Production, Consumption, Labour, Necessaries |
| 45 | 0304 | 4 Income. Capital |
| 51 | 04 | Book III On Wants and Their Satisfaction |
| 52 | 0401 | 1 Introductory |
| 53 | 0402 | 2 Wants in Relation to Activities |
| 56 | 0403 | 3 Gradations of Consumers’ Demand |
| 63 | 0404 | 4 The Elasticity of Wants |
| 72 | 0405 | 5 Choice between Different Uses of the Same Thing. Immediate and Deferred Uses |
| 76 | 0406 | 6 Value and Utility |
| 85 | 05 | Book IV The Agents of Production, Land, Labour, Capital and Organization |
| 85 | 0501 | 1 Introductory |
| 88 | 0502 | 2 The Fertility of Land |
| 90 | 0503 | 3 The Fertility of Land, continued. The Tendency to Diminishing Return |
| 98 | 05030001 | NOTE ON THE LAW OF DIMINISHING RETURN. |
| 104 | 0504 | 4 The Growth of Population |
| 117 | 0505 | 5 The Health and Strength of the Population |
| 124 | 0506 | 6 Industrial Training |
| 132 | 0507 | 7 The Growth of Wealth |
| 143 | 0508 | 8 Industrial Organization |
| 148 | 0509 | 9 Industrial Organization, continued. Division of Labour. The Influence of Machinery |
| 157 | 0510 | 10 Industrial Organization, continued. The Concentration of the Specialized Industries in Particular Localities |
| 163 | 0511 | 11 Industrial Organization, continued. Production on a Large Scale |
| 170 | 0512 | 12Industrial Organization, continued. Business Management |
| 181 | 0513 | 13 Conclusion. Correlation of the Tendencies toIncreasing and to Diminishing Return |
| 185 | 06 | Book V General Relations of Demand, Supply and Value |
| 185 | 0601 | 1 Introductory. On Markets |
| 186 | 0602 | 2 Temporary Equilibrium of Demand and Supply |
| 190 | 0603 | 3 Equilibrium of Normal Demand and Supply |
| 193 | 0604 | 4 The Investment and Distribution of Resources |
| 200 | 0605 | 5 Equilibrium of Normal Demand and Supply, continued, with Reference to Long and Short Periods |
| 207 | 0606 | CHAPTER V EQUILIBRIUM OF NORMAL DEMAND AND SUPPLY, CONTINUED, WITH REFERENCE TO LONG AND SHORT PERIODS |
| 216 | 0607 | 6 Joint and Composite Demand. Joint and Composite Supply |
| 224 | 0608 | 7 Prime and Total Cost in Relation to Joint Products. Cost of Marketing. Insurance against Risk. Cost of Reproduction |
| 229 | 0609 | 8 Marginal Costs in Relation to Values. General Principles |
| 234 | 0610 | 9 Marginal Costs in Relation to Values.General Principles, continued |
| 241 | 0611 | 10 Marginal Costs in Relation to Agricultural Values |
| 249 | 0612 | 11 Marginal Costs in Relation to Urban Values |
| 257 | 0613 | 12 Equilibrium of Normal Demand and Supply, continued, with Reference to the Law of Increasing Return |
| 260 | 0614 | 13 Theory of Changes of Normal Demand and Supply, in Relation to the Doctrine of Maximum Satisfaction |
| 269 | 0615 | 14 The Theory of Monopolies |
| 281 | 0616 | 15 Summary of the General Theory of Equilibrium of Demand and Supply |
| 285 | 07 | Book VI The Distribution of the National Income |
| 285 | 0701 | 1 Preliminary Survey of Distribution |
| 285 | 0702 | 2 Preliminary Survey of Distribution, continued |
| 285 | 0703 | 3 Earnings of Labour |
| 285 | 0704 | 4 Earnings of Labour, continued |
| 285 | 0705 | 5 Earnings of Labour, continued |
| 285 | 0706 | 6 Interest of Capital |
| 285 | 0707 | 7 Profits of Capital and Business Power |
| 285 | 0708 | 8 Profits of Capital and Business Power, continued |
| 285 | 0709 | 9 Rent of Land |
| 285 | 0710 | 10 Land Tenure |
| 285 | 0711 | 11 General View of Distribution |
| 285 | 0712 | 12 General Influences of Progress on Value |
| 285 | 0713 | 13 Progress in Relation to Standards of Life |
| 285 | 0714 | Appendix A The Growth of Free Industry and Enterprise |
| 285 | 0715 | 6 Interest of Capital |
| 285 | 0716 | 7 Profits of Capital and Business Power |
| 285 | 0717 | 8 Profits of Capital and Business Power, continued |
| 285 | 0718 | 9 Rent of Land |
| 285 | 0719 | 10 Land Tenure |
| 285 | 0720 | 11 General View of Distribution |
| 285 | 0721 | 12 General Influences of Progress on Value |
| 285 | 0722 | 13 Progress in Relation to Standards of Life |
| 285 | 0723 | Appendix A The Growth of Free Industry and Enterprise |
| 285 | 0724 | Appendix B The Growth of Economic Science |
| 285 | 0725 | Appendix C The Scope and Method of Economics |
| 285 | 0726 | Appendix D Uses of Abstract Reasoning in Economics |
| 285 | 0727 | Appendix E Definitions of Capital |
| 285 | 0728 | Appendix F Barter |
| 285 | 0729 | with Some Suggestions as to Policy |
| 285 | 0730 | Appendix H Limitations of the Use of Statical Assumptions in Regard to |
| 285 | 0731 | Increasing Return Appendix I Ricardo’s Theory of Value |
| 285 | 0732 | Appendix J The Doctrine of the Wages-Fund |
| 285 | 0733 | Appendix K Certain Kinds of Surplus |
| 285 | 0734 | Appendix L Ricardo’s Doctrine as to Taxes and Improvements in Agriculture Mathematical |
| 285 | 0735 | Appendix Index Comparative Index |
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1 (297) Finally, Cournot and Johann Heinrich von Thünen are thanked for drawing Marshall’s attention to the importance of the margin (and of marginalist analysis), especially in defining a stable equilibrium as a balance between an increment in demand and an increment in cost of production. 2 (358) and it is held that the Laws of Economics are statements of tendencies expressed in the indicative mood, and not ethical precepts in the imperative. 3 (400) there is one Fundamental Idea running through all their frames, so the general theory of the equilibrium of demand and supply is a Fundamental Idea running through the frames of all the various parts of the central problem of Distribution and Exchange. 4 (408) There is not in real life a clear line of division between things that are and are not Capital, or that are and are not Necessaries, or again between labour that is and is not Productive. 5 (419) our observations of nature, in the moral as in the physical world, relate not so much to aggregate quantities, as to increments of quantities, 6 (8) is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life; it examines that part of individual and social action which is most closely connected with the attainment and with the use of the material requisites of wellbeing. 7 (8) Contents Introduction Peter Groenewegen 8 (8) Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Eighth Edition 9 (11) Dreams of a past GoldenAge are beautiful but misleading. 10 (26) common sense, which is the ultimate arbiter in every practical problem. 11 (29) The scientific student of history is hampered by his inability to experiment and even more by the absence of any objective standard to which his estimates of relative proportion can be referred. 12 (30) The fact is that nearly all the founders of modern economics were men of gentle and sympathetic temper, touched with the enthusiasm of humanity. They cared little for wealth for themselves; they cared much for its wide diffusion among the masses of the people. They opposed antisocial monopolies however powerful. In their several generations they supported the movement against the class legislation which denied to trade unions privileges that were open to associations of employers; or they worked for a remedy against the poison which the old Poor Law was instilling into the hearts and homes of the agricultural and other labourers; or they supported the factory acts, in spite of the strenuous opposition of some politicians and employers who claimed to speak in their name. They were without exception devoted to the doctrine that the well-being of the whole people should be the ultimate goal of all private effort and all public policy. But they were strong in courage and caution; they appeared cold, because they would not assume the responsibility of advocating rapid advances on untried paths, for the safety of which the only guarantees offered were the confident hopes of men whose imaginations were eager, but not steadied by knowledge nor disciplined by hard thought. 13 (105) Adam Smith said but little on the question of population, for indeed he wrote at one of the culminating points of the prosperity of the English working classes; but what he does say is wise and well balanced and modern in tone. Accepting the physiocratic doctrine as his basis, he corrected it by insisting that the necessaries of life are not a fixed and determined quantity, but have varied much from place to place and time to time; and may vary more. |
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