CONTENTS -- EDITORIAL FOREWORD -- EDITOR'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION -- F. A. HAYEK The Pure Theory of Capital PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTORY -- THE SCOPE OF THE INQUIRY -- EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS AND THE CAPITAL PROBLEM -- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ANALYSIS IN REAL TERMS -- THE RELATION OF THIS STUDY TO THE CURRENT THEORIES OF CAPITAL -- THE NATURE OF THE CAPITAL PROBLEM1 -- THE DURATION OF THE PROCESS OF PRODUCTION AND THE DURABILITY OF GOODS: SOME DEFINITIONS -- CAPITAL AND THE ' SUBSISTENCE FUND' -- INVESTMENT IN A SIMPLE ECONOMY -- THE OUTPUT FUNCTION AND THE INPUT FUNCTION -- THE CONTINUOUS PROCESS OF PRODUCTION -- THE POSITION OF DURABLE GOODS IN THE INVESTMENT STRUCTURE -- THE PRODUCTIVITY OF INVESTMENT -- PLANNING FOR A CONSTANT OUTPUT STREAM -- COMPOUND INTEREST AND THE INSTANTANEOUS RATE OF INTEREST -- THE MARGINAL PRODUCTIVITY OF INVESTMENT AND THE RATE OF INTEREST -- INPUT, OUTPUT, AND THE STOCK OF CAPITAL IN VALUE TERMS1 -- THE MARGINAL VALUE PRODUCT OF INVESTMENT: THE PROBLEM OF ATTRIBUTION ( IMPUTATION) -- TIME PREFERENCE AND ITS EFFECTS WITH CONSTANT RETURNS ON INVESTMENT1 -- TIME PREFERENCE AND PRODUCTIVITY: THEIR RELATIVE IMPORTANCE -- CAPITALISTIC PRODUCTION IN A COMPETITIVE COMMUNITY -- THE GENERAL CONDITIONS OF EQUILIBRIUM -- THE ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL -- THE EFFECT OF THE ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL ON THE QUANTITIES PRODUCED AND ON RELATIVE PRICES OF DIFFERENT COMMODITIES -- THE ADJUSTMENT OF THE CAPITAL STRUCTURE TO FORESEEN CHANGES -- THE EFFECTS OF UNFORESEEN CHANGES AND IN PARTICULAR OF INVENTIONS -- THE MOBILITY OF CAPITAL -- ' SAVING', ' INVESTMENT', AND THE ' CONSUMPTION OF CAPITAL' -- THE RATE OF INTEREST IN A MONEY ECONOMY -- FACTORS AFFECTING THE RATE OF INTEREST IN THE SHORT RUN -- LONG-RUN FORCES AFFECTING THE RATE OF INTEREST.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN INTEREST RATES: CONCLUSIONS AND OUTLOOK -- APPENDIX I Time Preference and Productivity -- APPENDIX II The ' Conversion of Circulating Capital Into Fixed Capital' -- APPENDIX III ' Demand for Commodities Is Not Demand for Labour' -- The Doctrine of ' Derived Demand' -- APPENDIX IV A Comment1 -- APPENDIX V Time-Preference and Productivity: A Reconsideration1 -- INDEX OF DEFINITIONS OF SOME TECHNICAL TERMS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.