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Steady State Capital Theory

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  • © 1971

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Authors:
  1. C. C. Weizsäcker

    1. Albert Weber-Institut für Sozial- und Staatswissenschaften, Universität Heidelberg, Deutschland

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems (LNE, volume 54)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-iii
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  2. Preface

    1. Preface

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      Pages 1-3

  3. Capital Theory without Capital (Preliminaries to Capital Theory)

    1. The Static Input-Output Model without Substitution

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      Pages 4-8

    2. The Static Input-Output Model with Substitution

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      Pages 8-11

    3. The Static Input-Output Model with more than One Nonproducible Factor of Production

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      Pages 11-14

  4. Circulating Capital

    1. A One Sector Model

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      Pages 15-18

    2. Many Goods, no Substitution

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      Pages 18-22

    3. Dated Labour Inputs and the Theory of Value and Exploitation

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      Pages 22-31

    4. Dated Labour Inputs and the Period of Production

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      Pages 32-36

    5. Böhm-Bawerks Law of Increased Productivity of Increased Round aboutness. The Point-Input - Point Output Model

      • C. C. von Weizsäcker
      Pages 36-39

    6. The Period of Production in More General Models

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      Pages 40-47

    7. Substitution. Switching of Techniques

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      Pages 47-52

    8. The Dynamic Nonsubstitution Theorem. Generalization of the Elasticity of Substitution.

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      Pages 53-60

    9. Wicksell Effect. Marginal Productivity of Capital

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      Pages 60-66

  5. Fixed Capital

    1. Machines

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      Pages 67-72

    2. The General Case of Joint Production and a General Nonsubstitution Theorem

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      Pages 72-78

  6. General Equilibrium of Steady States

    1. General Equilibrium of Steady States

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      Pages 79-96

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 97-104
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About this book

The following lecture notes were written shortly after I gave a course on capital theory in the winter-semester 1970/71 at the Univer­ sity of Heidelberg. While the general line of the argument is similar to the one in the course, I have modified and added a large number' of specific points in the process of writing the English version. I should like to emphasize the narrow limitations of the material covered in these notes. I have completely concentrated on steady states of stationary and exponentially growing economies, even up to the point where there is the danger of misleading the reader1 I have done this for several reasons. Other activities have not left me with a sufficient amount of time to be able to find the unifying principle of analysis and mode of presentation for the dynamic aspects of capi­ tal theory which would have made it worthwhile to add a sizeable book to the large body of literature in this field. On the other hand over the last couple of years I have become increasingly aware that some of the results in steady state capital theory (which could be derived without too much mathematical effort) are of relevance in present day dis­ cussions about the political role of economic theory and the relative merits of orthodox and radical economics. Also these results seemed not to be known by' mO$ of the participants in these discussions.

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  • Albert Weber-Institut für Sozial- und Staatswissenschaften, Universität Heidelberg, Deutschland

    C. C. Weizsäcker

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