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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Wicksell's Life and Work -- I. Two Early Lectures -- Ends and Means in Economics (1904) -- The Influence of the Rate of Interest on Commodity Prices (1898) -- II. Theory of Production and Distribution -- Marginal Productivity as the Basis of Distribution in Economics (1990) -- On the Problem of Distribution (1902) -- The 'Critical Point' in the Law of Decreasing Agricultural Productivity (1916) -- III. On the Work of His Contemporaries

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Foreword -- Translator's Note -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Present-Day Position of Theoretical Political Economy -- 2. The Classical Theory of Value -- 3. The Theories of Value of the Harmony Economists and the Socialists -- I. The New Theory of Value -- 1. The Concept of Value according to Jevons, Walras and the Austrian School -- 2. Different Uses of the Same Kind of Commodity -- 3. Exchange at Given Prices -- 4. Isolated Exchange

Known as the ""economist's economist"" for his work on creating a synthetic economic theory, Swedish economist Knut Wicksell was a controversial, but highly influential figure in modern economic thought. His contributions to marginal productivity theory, income distribution and, most notably, his theory of interest would come to have a profound impact upon twentieth century economic theory, not least in the work of John Maynard Keynes.First published in English in 1934 and 1935, this Routledge Revival set is a reissue of Wicksell's two volume work on political economy, first