The Principles of Economics with Applications to Practical Problems: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Principles of Economics with Applications to Practical Problems, credited to Frank Albert Fetter, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Principles of Economics with Applications to Practical Problems, by Frank Albert Fetter (1863-1949). Frank Albert Fetter was an American economist of the Austrian school, but referred to himself as a member of the “American Psychological School” instead. Fetter contested the position that land is theoretically distinct from capital, arguing that such a distinction was impractical. His stand on this issue led him to oppose ideas like the land value tax. Fetter also asserted that just as the price of each consumer good is determined solely by subjective value, so the rate of interest is determined solely by time preference. He maintained that time valuation was prerequisite to the determination of the market rate of interest, and he emphasized the time valuation element in all consumption and production choices. Fetter taught at Cornell University, Indiana University, and Stanford University. He was the first chairman of Princeton University's Department of Economics and Social Institutions, an interdisciplinary department that incorporated history, politics, and economics. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Principles of Economics with Applications to Practical Problems
• Author credits: Frank Albert Fetter
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 58
• Listed recording duration: 21:32:50

Catalogue topics

• economics
• time-value
• labor
• labour
• diminishing returns
• capital
• political economics

Opening tracks: first 24 of 58

1. 00 - Preface — 7:33
2. 01 - Chapter 1 - The Nature and Purpose of Political Economy — 13:54
3. 02 - Chapter 2 - Economic Motives — 13:24
4. 03 - Chapter 3 - Wealth and Welfare — 13:54
5. 04 - Chapter 4 - The Nature of Demand — 22:07
6. 05 - Chapter 5 - Exchange in a Market — 21:56
7. 06 - Chapter 6 - Psychic Income — 19:27
8. 07 - Chapter 7 - Wealth and Its Direct Uses — 17:13
9. 08 - Chapter 8 - The Renting Contract — 19:45
10. 09 - Chapter 9 - The Law of Diminishing Returns — 29:39
11. 10 - Chapter 10 - The Theory of Rent — 14:26
12. 11 - Chapter 11 - Repair, Depreciation, and Destruction of Wealth — 22:32
13. 12 - Chapter 12 - Increase of Rent-Bearers and of Rents — 20:48
14. 13 - Chapter 13 - Money as a Tool in Exchange — 24:14
15. 14 - Chapter 14 - The Money Economy and the Concept of Capital — 24:19
16. 15 - Chapter 15 - The Capitalization of All Forms of Rent — 34:49
17. 16 - Chapter 16 - Interest on Money Loans — 25:23
18. 17 - Chapter 17 - The Theory of Time-Value — 27:40
19. 18 - Chapter 18 - Relatively Fixed and Relatively Increasable Forms of Capital — 15:50
20. 19 - Chapter 19 - Saving and Production as Affected by the Rate of Interest — 20:37
21. 20 - Chapter 20 - Labor and Classes of Laborers — 28:03
22. 21 - Chapter 21 - The Supply of Labor — 29:30
23. 22 - Chapter 22 - Conditions for Efficient Labor — 21:04
24. 23 - Chapter 23 - The Law of Wages — 23:25

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