Apriorism, 1, 9 Ability-<strong>to</strong>-pay principle, 211 Absolute advantage, 18 Acceleration principle, 147 Action, 3 Advertising, 129, 160, 164 Affluence, 164 Agio. See Interest Algebra, 150–51 Antitrust laws, 190, 194 Arrow-Debreu, 64 Autistic exchange, 17 Average physical product (APP), 84 Awareness, 17 Balance of payments, 32, 144 Bank/banking 100 percent reserve, 142–43 fractional-reserve (FRB), 142 run, 165 Barriers <strong>to</strong> entry, 125 Barter, economy, 35 See also Exchange, direct Basing-point pricing, 194 Belief, 2, 4 Bentham, Jeremy, 238 Bills of exchange, 145 Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen, 9, 62, 99, 102, 115 Boom, runaway, 165 See also Business cycle Bribery, 196 249 INDEX Bureaucracy, 121, 124 Buridan’s ass, 49 Business cycle, 146, 156, 164, 165 Bust. See Business cycle Calculation, economic, 28, 108, 112, 113, 116, 121, 124, 125, 162 Cannan, Edwin, 169 Capacity, paradox of excess, 128–29 Capital goods (fac<strong>to</strong>rs of production), 4, 5, 7, 82, 85, 104 complementary, 7 Capital, structure of, 163, 164 working, 104 Capitalists, 32, 59, 70 Capitalization, 40, 46 Caplan, Bryan, 185 Cardinality, 6, 51 Cartel/cartels, 121, 124–25 as similar <strong>to</strong> mergers <strong>and</strong> corporations, 124 one big, 125 compulsory, 190, 192 Cash balance, 32, 135, 137 Catallactics, 28 Chamberlin, Edward Hastings, 129 Chaos. See Calculation, economic Charity, poverty <strong>and</strong>, 233 Child labor laws, 190, 193 Choice, 1 Circular flow diagram, 34, 77 Clark, John Bates, 9
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