Essays in economic theory, growth, and labour markets : a festschrift in honour of E. Drandakis / edited by George Bitros, Yannis Katsoulacos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Drandakis, Emmanuel.

Bitros, George.

Katsoulacos, Y. S., 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics.

Labor market.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

a xviii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [2002]

Contents:

Part I. Economic Growth

1. Some Early Conferences on Growth Theory / Lionel McKenzie 3

2. Discounting and the Growth of Net National Product / Amitava Bose, Swapan Dasgupta, Tapan Mitra 19

Part II. General Equilibrium

3. Equilibrium selections / Beth Allen, Jayasri Dutta, Herakles Polemarchakis 33

4. Extensive Form Implementation of Weak Fine Core Allocations through Penalties / David W. Bernotas, Dionysius Glycopantis, Nicholas C. Yannelis 55

5. Nonlinear Neighborhood Interactions and Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital / Yannis M. Ioannides 75

6. Beliefs and the Neutrality of Money / Costas Azariadis 113

7. Towards a General Theory of Real Capital / George C. Bitros, Elias G. Flytzanis 125

Part III. Labor Economics

8. Endowment Changes, Price Response, and the Behavior of Wages / Ronald W. Jones 151

9. The Pace of Work and Pay / Walter Y. Oi 159

10. The Incidence of Increased Unemployment in the Group of Seven, 1970-94 / Edmund S. Phelps, Gylfi Zoega 177

11. Labor Incentives and Manumission in Ancient Greek Slavery / Stanley L. Engerman 211

Part IV. Game Theory and Applications

12. Agency Games / Neelam Jain, Leonard J. Mirman 223

13. The Role of Beliefs, Knowledge, and Rationality in Non-Cooperative Games / James W. Friedman, Claudio Mezzetti 243

14. The Economics of Research Joint Ventures / Yannis Katsoulacos, David Ulph 259.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1840647396

OCLC:

49305542