白瑞雪和白暴力编著的《价值与价格通论》内容介绍：The works systemically establishes theoretical models and systems of inflation,and discusses inflation from the perspectives of factors, causes and kinds, mean-while, it classifies inflation into four classes and seven kinds. Moreover, it makes a sufficient analysis on the economic reality. Various kinds of inflation in modern China are researched in depth, and the principles tackling those inflations are illustrated.
The works breaks through the traditional analysis on inflation from the aspects of demand and supply in modern economics. Moreover, it reveals the fact that the theory of supply and demand in modern economics is the phenomenological description on inflation, which is the expressive form of various kinds of inflation discussed in the book.
Chapter One Two Kinds of Factors of General Price Level and Inflation:
Structural Factors and Aggregate Factors
Section One Analysis on General Price Level and Its Factors
1.1 Basic Concepts: Price System, General Price Level, and
Two Kinds of Money
1.2 Structural Determinants of General Price Level and Its
Change: Changes in Absolute Price System and
Relative Price System
1.3 Aggregate Determinants of General Price Level and
Its Change
1.4 Comparison between Precious-metal Money System and Paper
Money System: Change of General Price Level is the
Systematical Feature of Paper Money System
Section Two Analysis on Inflation and Factors Relevant to It in
Paper Money System
2.1 Basic Concepts: Inflation and Its Measure
2.2 Structural Factors Relevant to Inflation
2.3 Aggregate Factors Relevant to Inflation
Summary
Chapter Two Inflation by Paper Money Expansion:
Paper Money Expansion, Paper Money Devaluation and
Inflation
Section One Definition and Discrimination of Basic
Concepts
1.1 Paper Money Expansion and "Increase in Paper Money
Amount in Circulation"
1.2 Paper Money Devaluation and "Decrease in Value Magnitude
Represented by Unit Paper Money"
1.3 Initiative Expansion of Paper Money and Passive Expansion of
Paper Money
1.4 Paper Money Expansion and Inflation
Section Two Initiative Expansion of Paper Money:
Inflation by Paper Money Expansion
2.1 Principle of the Inflation by Paper Money Expansion
2.2 Cases of the Inflation by Paper Money Expansion
2.3 Dealing with the Inflation by Paper Money Expansion:
Monetary Policy
Section Three Expansion of Paper Money and Increase of
Aggregate Demand:
A Popular Misunderstanding
3.1 On Quantity Theory of Money
3.2 On Keynesian School
Summary
Chapter Three Passive Expansion of Paper Money:
A Key Category
Section One Passive Expansion of Paper Money and Inflation
1.1 Passive Expansion of Paper Money
1.2 Causes of Passive Expansion of Paper Money
1.3 Opinions on Passive Expansion of Paper Money
Section Two Transfer of Money and Inflation
2.1 Change of Real Interest Rate and Transfer of Money Amount
2.2 Money Transfer Caused by Inflation
Section Three Passive Expansion of Paper Money and Failure of
Monetary Policy
Summary
Chapter Four Inflation by Operation of Value Laws:
Inflation Effect by Relative Change in Labor
Productivities
Section One Change of Labor Productivities and Change of
Relative Price System
Section Two Downward Rigidity of Absolute Price
2.1 Meaning of Downward Rigidity of Absolute Price
2.2 Formation of Downward Rigidity of Absolute Price
Section Three Selection of Dynamic Reference Commodity:
"Top-price-based" Laws
3.1 Referentially Relative Price
3.2 Relative Price Difference
3.3 Determination of Referential Commodity (1)
Section Four Rise in Absolute Price and Inflation:
Ratchet Effect
4.1 Determination of Absolute Price in Term t + 1
4.2 Rise in Absolute Price in Term t + 1 and Inflation
4.3 Inflation Effect by Relative Changes between Labor
Productivities: Inflation by Operation of Value Laws
Section Five "Systematic Characteristics of Market Mechanism" in
Paper Money:
Inflation Effect by Microeconomic Behavior
Section Six A Simple Numerical Example
6.1 Assumptions
6.2 Explanation of Inflation
Section Seven Case:
Largely Inflation by Operation of Value Laws
Summary
Appendix of Chapter Four An Inherent Contradiction of Socialist
Economy: A Cause of Transition from Socialist Planned
Economy to Market Economy
Chapter Five Inflation by Market-push (Ⅰ):
Inflation Effect by Operation of Market Mechanism
Chapter Six Inflation by Market-push (Ⅱ):
Inflation Effect by Demand Rigidity
Chapter Seven Summary of Inflation Effect by Micro-economic Behavior:
Failure of Monetary Policy
Chapter Eight Inflation by Shrinkage in Productive Labor
Chapter Nine Inflation by Demand Expansion
Chapter Ten Inflation by Self-excitation
Chapter Eleven Phenomenal Forms of Various Kinds of Inflation:
Theory of Supply-and-Demand in Modern
Economics
Chapter Twelve Comprehensive Causes of Inflation and Principles to
Tackle Inflation
Appendix One Index of Main Concepts
Appendix Two Index of Main Symbols
Appendix Three Issues to be Researched in Further
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