Economists in government : an international comparative study / edited by A.W. Coats.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coats, A. W. (Alfred William), 1924-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government economists--Congresses.

Government economists.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 365 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1981.

Contents:

Introduction / A.W. Coats

Britain, the rise of the specialists/ A.W. Coats

Australia, economists in a federal system / A. Petridis

India, the aftermath of empire / S. Ambirajan

Norway, the powerful servants / Trond Bergh

The United States, economists in a balkanized political system / William J. Barber

Israel, economists in a new state / Ephraim Kleiman

Hungary, economists in a socialist planning system / Egon Kemenes

Japan, the officer in charge of economic affairs / Ryutaro Komiya and Kozo Yamamoto

Italy, economists in a weak political system / Franco Ferraresi and Giuseppe Ferrari

Brazil, economists in a bureaucratic-authoritarian system / Paulo Roberto Haddad

Conclusions / A.W. Coats.

Notes:

Outgrowth of two conferences, the first held April 2-7, 1977 at the Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy and the second held March 25-31, 1979 at the Inter-University Centre for Postgraduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.

Originally published without preface or index as vol 13:3 of the journal History of political economy.

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

0822304597

OCLC:

7614879