Essays in the Theory of Economic Growth
Author : Joan Robinson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 13,74 MB
Release : 1965-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1349006262
Author : Joan Robinson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 13,74 MB
Release : 1965-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1349006262
Author : Barrington Moore
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 39,35 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1501726420
Barrington Moore, Jr., one of the most distinguished thinkers in critical theory and historical sociology, was long concerned with the prospects for freedom and decency in industrial society. The product of decades of reflection on issues of authority, inequality, and injustice, this volume analyzes fluctuating moral beliefs and behavior in political and economic affairs at different points in history, from the early Middle Ages in England to the prospects for liberalism under twentieth-century Soviet socialism. The social sources of antisocial behavior; principles of social inequality; and the origins, enemies, and possibilities of rational discussion in public affairs—these are among the topics Moore considers as he seeks to uncover the historical causes of some accepted forms of morality and to assess their social consequences. The keynote essay examines how moral codes grew out of commercial practices in England from medieval times through the industrial revolution. Moore pays special attention to conceptions of honesty and the temptation to evade that inform the volume as a whole. In the other essays, he considers particular political issues, viewing "political" in its broadest sense as an unequal distribution of power and authority that carries a strong moral charge. Free of preaching and advocacy, his work offers a rare reasonable assessment of the morality of major social institutions over time.
Author : Jagdish N. Bhagwati
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 31,13 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262022293
Volume I, Wealth and Poverty, addresses domestic or internal development problems.
Author : Maurice Dobb
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 22,15 MB
Release : 2011-03-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0853451176
This important essay dates from the end of the fifties. During this era, the dominant theories of economic growth were based on conditions of private ownership of capital and where investment is primarily under the control of private individuals or firms. Dobbs, however, considers the alternatives. He asks: Do such theories have a more universal application? Can they be applied to planned economies? If they can, in what form may such an application be made? Half a century later, with the global regime of unfettered international capital markets in a state of utter collapse, the time has come for a return to the possibility of rational social and economic planning. This short clear book is again a necessary theoretical starting point for a post-capitalist future.
Author : Joakim Persson
Publisher :
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 13,73 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 9789171537973
Author : Moses Abramovitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 12,12 MB
Release : 1989-04-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521333962
The essays in this book explore the forces behind modern economic growth and, in particular, the causes of the extraordinary surge of growth since the Second World War. The introductory essay is an extended treatment of how economists now view the growth process and its causes. Other essays consider the contributions of capital formation, education, and the changed nature of industries and occupations. Professor Abramovitz asks why elevated incomes failed to bring the social progress and personal satisfaction that people had looked for. The final chapters in the book take up the causes of our discontent and consider whether the Welfare State has itself become an obstacle to further economic progress.The essays in this book explore the forces behind modern economic growth and, in particular, the causes of the extraordinary surge of growth since the Second World War. The introductory essay is an extended treatment of how economists now view the growth process and its causes. Other essays consider the contributions of capital formation, education, and the changed nature of industries and occupations. Professor Abramovitz asks why elevated incomes failed to bring the social progress and personal satisfaction that people had looked for. The final chapters in the book take up the causes of our discontent and consider whether the Welfare State has itself become an obstacle to further economic progress.
Author : Timothy Guinnane
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 29,11 MB
Release : 2003-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0804766932
Combining theoretical work with careful historical description and analysis of new data sources, History Matters makes a strong case for a more historical approach to economics, both by argument and by example. Seventeen original essays, written by distinguished economists and economic historians, use economic theory and historical cases to explore how and why "history matters." The chapters, which range in subject matter from the economic theory of irreversible investment to the nineteenth-century decline in U.S. rural fertility to the English poor law reform, are unified by three themes. The first explores the significance, causes, and consequences of path dependence in the evolution of technology and institutions. The second relates to the ways in which economic and political behavior are profoundly shaped and constrained by the cultural and political context inherited from history at a particular point in time. The final theme demonstrates the importance of integrating economic theory into historical research in the gathering and interpretation of data.
Author : Paul A. David
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 38,25 MB
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1483261204
Nations and Households in Economic Growth: Essays in Honor of Moses Abramovitz is a collection of papers that reflect the broad sweep of Moses Abramovitz’s interests within the disciplines of economics and economic history. This work is organized into two parts encompassing 14 chapters. The first part discusses the individual and social welfare significance of quantitative indices of economic growth. This part also deals with the mechanisms of economic-demographic interdependence and their bearing particularly upon “long swings in the rate of growth. The second part highlights the changing role of international relations in processes generating national economic development and domestic economic instability. This book will be of value to economists, historians, and researchers.
Author : Maurice Dobb
Publisher :
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Economics
ISBN :
Author : George Bitros
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 14,14 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781782543602
The distinguished contributors in this volume provide a variety of essays, which are written in honor of Emmanuel Drandakis. These essays fall into four uniform areas of economics: economic growth, general equilibrium, labor economics and game theory and applications. The editors focus on a select set of issues that stand high on the agenda of academic research. They provide fresh insights and approaches to the analysis of these issues, and thus open up wider avenues for our understanding of the dilemmas posed for theory and policy. Readers are offered new empirical evidence on such thorny social problems as, for example, unemployment, the intergenerational transmission of human capital and the response of wages to price and endowment changes.