Chapter II: Supply and Demand, and the Value of Money
_Hiatus_ between general theory of value and theory of value
of money 46-47
Partly because former has been developed by different writers
from those who have developed latter 47-49
But chiefly because supply and demand, cost of production,
etc., _assume_ fixed value of money, and are theories of
_price_, rather than _value_ 49
Supply and demand useful but superficial formula, common
property of many value theories 49-50
Crude and unanalyzed in Smith and Ricardo; first made precise
by J. S. Mill, who gives essentials of modern doctrine 49-51
Boehm-Bawerk's pseudo-psychology spoils Mill's clean-cut
doctrine 51-52
Supply and demand assumes fixed _value_ of money-unit, and
hence inapplicable to money itself 52-56
But supply and demand does _not_ assume fixed _price-level_ 56-57
Cairnes _vs._ Mill 57-58
Mill's unsuccessful effort to apply supply and demand to
money 59-62
Walker's attempt 62
Supply and demand in the "money market" 62-63
Chapter III
COST OF PRODUCTION AND THE VALUE OF MONEY
Types of cost theory: modern cost doctrine is "money costs"
doctrine, and inapplicable to value of money 64
Labor cost: Smith; Ricardo; Ricardo's confession of failure;
"real costs" in Senior and Cairnes; Mill's "money-outlay"
cost doctrine, and Cairnes' criticism; but "money-cost"
has survived 64-67
Because "real cost" doctrine does not square with facts 67-69
"Money-cost" of producing money-metal 69-70
Austrian cost doctrine runs still in money terms, assuming
value, money, and fixed value of money 70-71
"Negative social values" as "real costs" note, 71
CHAPTER IV
THE CAPITALIZATION THEORY AND THE VALUE OF MONEY
Money as "capital good," and "money-rates" as rentals 72-73
Capitalization theory; formula; capital value passive
resultant of annual income and rate of discount 73-74
But in case of money, rental and rate of discount not
independent variables 74-76
And in case of money, capital value not passive shadow,
but active cause of income 76
Capitalization theory assumes money, and fixed value of
money 76-77
Assumed fixed value of money absolute, and not relative 77-78
Capitalization theory, in current formulation, inapplicable
to value of money 78-79
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