# Social Value: A Study in Economic Theory, Critical and Constructive Author: Anderson, Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester), 1886-1949 Genre: Category: Economics Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38047 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Social+Value%3A+A+Study+in+Economic+Theory%2C+Critical+and+Constructive+Anderson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary Social Value concept recently become important, chiefly in America, and primarily through the influence of Professor J. B. Clark--Value and "social marginal utility"--Relation of social-value theory to Austrian theory: Professor Clark's view; views of Böhm-Bawerk, Wieser, and Sax--Statement of the author's position: conceptions of social utility and social cost unsatisfactory, but social value concept a necessity for the validation of economic theory--Plan of procedure: study of logical requirements of valid value concept; failure of current theory to justify such a concept; cause of this failure in faulty psychology, epistemology, and sociology presupposed by current economic theory; rec... ## Chapters - [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/31/index.md) - [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/30/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/34/index.md) - [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/21/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/39/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/37/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/41/index.md) - [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/32/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/27/index.md) - [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/20/index.md) - [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/33/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/35/index.md) - [chapter IV. The doctrine appears in Professor Veblen's recent article in](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/29/index.md) - [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/23/index.md) - [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/36/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/24/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/40/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/28/index.md) - [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/25/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/26/index.md) - [chapter II, I am in hearty accord, in so far as the issues raised in that](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/38/index.md) - [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/10/index.md) - [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/11/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/14/index.md) - [chapter XI where this argument is materially strengthened. The points here](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/22/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/13/index.md) - [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/1/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/7/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/16/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/18/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/17/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/4/index.md) - [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/8/index.md) - [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/12/index.md) - [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/15/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/6/index.md) - [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/19/index.md) - [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-value-a-study-in-economic-theory-critical-and-constructive-38047/chapters/5/index.md)