Tuesday, March 27, 2012

The Behavior of Prices

The Behavior of Prices
Frederick C. Mills

Book Description: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., New York, 1927. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, Blue cloth boards with gilt title to cover and spine, First Edition, Stated First Printing, Published December 1927, Foreword by Edwin F. Gay and Wesley C. Mitchell, Illustrated with 171 Tables and 81 Charts, Indexed, 598 pp.

Book Condition:
Good, Spine chipped and top and bottom extremes, covers heavily rubbed and soiled, corners bumped, heavy shelfwear, dampstain to text block that lightly affects the bottom corner of most pages (barely noticeable), signatures starting to separate, one of the content pages has torn and repaired with tape (tape yellowing), internally very clean, some tanning to end papers and pages, otherwise free of marks, no dust jacket.

Contents:
Introduction, CHAPTER 1: MEASURABLE CHARACTERISTICS OF COMMODITY PRICES, Section I. Price Changes Between Specific Dates, II. Variability of Commodity Prices, III. Trends of Commodity Prices, IV. Timing, Duration and Amplitude of Individual Price Changes During General Price Movements, V. Relations Between Prices and Price Determining Factors: Price Flexibility, VI. Relations Among Commodity Price Characteristics, VII: Summary, CHAPTER II: REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN COMMODITY PRICES AND IN PRICE BEHAVIOR, Section I. Regional Differences in Price, II. Regional Differences in Price Behavior, III. Conclusion, CHAPTER III: THE MEASUREMENT OF PRICE INSTABILITY: PRICE RELATIVE IN COMBINATION, Section I. Price Relationship and Economic Processes: Price Instability, II. The Description of Price Relatives in Combination, III. Changes in the Level of Wholesale Prices, IV. Price Dispersion, V. Price Displacement, VI: On the Characteristics of the Population of Prices, VII. Relations Among Measures of Price Instability, VIII. Summary, CHAPTER IV: MEASURES OF PRICE BEHAVIOR IN COMBINATION: Section I. Group Characteristics of Measures of Price Variability and Trend, II. Group Characteristics of Measures of Cyclical Price Movements, III. Summary, Appendix, Index. -- end. 598 pp. Collectible First Edition, Stated First Printing.

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