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AldineTransaction Introduction, Preface, Preface to Price Theory: A Provisional Text, 1. Introduction, 2. Theory of Demand, 3. The Welfare Effects of Taxes, 4. The Utility Analysis of Uncertainty, 5. The Relationships Between Supply Curves and Cost Curves, 6. The Law of Variable Proportions and a Firm's Cost Curves, 7. Derived Demand, 8. The Theory of Distribution with Fixed Proportions, 9. The Theory of Marginal Productivity and the Demand for Factors of Production, 10. Marginal Productivity Analysis: Some General Issues, 11. The Supply of Factors of Production, 12. Wage Determination and Unemployment, 13. Wages i n Different Occupations, 14. Relation Between the Functional and Personal Distribution of Income, 15. The Size Distribution of Income, 16. Profits, 17. The Theory of Capital and the Rate of Interest, Appendix A. Reading Assignments, Appendix B. Problems, Index