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Papers on Welfare and Growth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scitovsky, Tibor.
- Series:
- Routledge library editions. Economics. Welfare economics and economic policy ; 8.
- Routledge library editions. Economics. Welfare economics and economic policy ; 8
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (271 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The volume is divided into three parts:A: Economic Growth and Related Problems (covering international trade and economic integration, including a comparative study between Europe and America)B: Theoretical Welfare Economics (welfare propositions in economics, profit maximization and its implications and the Theory of Tariffs)C: Practical Welfare Economics (the price of economic progress, equity and international payments).
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Papers on Welfare and Growth; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; A: Economic Growth and Related Problems; 1. A Study of Interest and Capital; 2. Capital Accumulation, Employment and Price Rigidity; 3. Two Concepts of External Economies; 4. Monopoly and Competition in Europe and America; 5. Growth-Balanced or Unbalanced?; 6. lnternational Trade and Economic Integration as Means of Overcoming the Disadvantages of a Small Nation; B: Theoretical Welfare Economics; 7. A Note on Welfare Propositions in Economics; 8. A Reconsideration of the Theory of Tariffs
- 9. A Note on Profit Maximization and its Implications10. The State of Welfare Economics; C: Practical Welfare Economics; 11. Some Consequences of the Habit of Judging Quality by Price; 12. Ignorance as a Source of Oligopoly Power; 13. What Price Economic Progress?; 14. A Critique of Present and Proposed Standards; 15. On the Principle of Consumers' Sovereignty; 16. Equity; 1'7. International Payments in Laputa; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-203-70858-X
- 1-299-47939-1
- 1-135-03302-1
- 9780203708583
- OCLC:
- 842972223
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