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Syllabus.
PART II. Utility or one commodity a function of the quantities of all
COMMODITIES.
Chapter I. Two commodities with interrelated utilities.
§ 1. Introduction, ......
$ 2. Interdependence of utilities common,
§ 3. Effect on the cistern-analysis,
§ 4. Competing and completing commodities defined,
§ 5. Cistern-analysis correct but incomplete,
§ 6. The third definition of utility (Part I, Ch. I),
§ 7. Two commodities, .....
$ 8. Impossible combinations of two commodities,
$ 9. Curves of utility, .....
§ 10. Indifference curves, .....
§ 11. Partial income line tangent to indifference curve,§ 12. Different sensitiveness of competing and completingcommodities, .......
$ 13. Good and poor qualities of the same commodity,$ 14. “Maximum directions,” .....
$ 15. “Maximum directions” of all consumers parallel,$ 16. Production, .......
§ 17. Production and consumption, ....
Chapter II. Three or more commodities.
$ 1. Construction in three dimensions,
$ 2. Complicated dependence of utilities,
J 3. Equilibrium if only three commodities exist, .
§ 4. Passage to two dimensions by plane sections,
§ 5. to dimensions requisite, ....
§ 6. to dimensions used, .....
$ 7. Conditions of equilibrium, ....
§ 8. Passage to lower dimensions by “flat” sections
J 9. Analytical (vector analysis),
5 10. Peculiar cases of marginal utility,
Chapter III. Mechanical analogies.
§ 1. Mechanical analogies discussed, ....
$ 2. Analogies in parallel columns, ....
Chapter IV. Utility as a quantity.
$ 1. No need to compare two persons’ utilities, .
$ 2. How such a comparison might be made,
§ 3. How it could be applied to statistics, .
$ 4. Definition (3) (Part I, Ch. I) unessential in Part
II, .
§ 5. “Maximum directions” alone important,
§ 6. Integration of total utility probably impossible for
interrelated utilities, .....§ 7. Arbitrary constants unessential, ....
§ 8. Four attributes of utility unessential in the present
investigation, .......
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