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Selected Essays On Economic Policy

By G. C. Harcourt

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2001
ISBN
0333946324, 9780333946329
Open Library ID
OL10558818M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2955875 bytes)
Pages
371\371
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

This volume contains classic essays on economic policy written by one of its great exponents. The opening essay traces the author's evolving structures of thought about economics and the policy proposals that came from them over this period. Section 2 contains essays that set the background to the policy recommendations. In section 3 the role of investment incentives is analyzed. Section 4 is concerned with the influence of accounting conventions on private decision-making and government policy in both capitalist and planned economies. Section 5 contains a number of package deals, all designed to fit within the constraint of the philosophy of governments in power. The last section, general essays, ranges from a scheme for the payment of prisoners to the celebration of the views on policy of great economists, from Colin Clark, through Nicky Kaldor to John Cornwall.

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