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Equity and efficiency in economic development : essays in honour of Benjamin Higgins / edited by Donald J. Savoie and Irving Brecher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Savoie, Donald J., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development.
- Economic policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (440 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The ideological foundations of the contributors range from personalized neo-Marxism, through "extreme centre" neo-Keynesianism, to hard-line neoclassical mathematical economics. Despite this diversity there is a surprising degree of consensus. No contributor advocates centralized planning and none expects a free market to cure all economic ills. Opinions vary as to how well the market actually works, but all agree that equity and efficiency are essential goals which most consider to be complementary rather than mutually exclusive. In the concluding chapter it is suggested that current economic problems are caused not so much by government intervention as by the nature of that intervention. The authors believe that the recent ideological convergence may lead to a new paradigm, a theory of the optimal blend of market and management that will be flexible enough to deal with the varying conditions of diverse societies, thus simplifying the task of creating a smooth-running global economy. The contributors are Irma Adelman, Mark Blaug, Kenneth Boulding, Irving Brecher, Albert Breton, John S. Chipman, André Gunder Frank, Martha Fuentes Frank, Niles Hansen, Murray C. Kemp, Robin Marris, Richard Musgrave, Walt Rostow, Donald J. Savoie, Nicholas Spulber, and Paul Streeten. Higgins himself contributes a chapter on basic concepts and collaborates with Donald Savoie on the final chapter.
- Contents:
- Intro; Contents; Tables and Figures; Preface; Introduction; PART ONE: CONCEPTS; PART TWO: FACTS; PART THREE: POLICY; PART FOUR: INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS; Selected Works of Benjamin Higgins; Contributors; 1 Equity and Efficiency in Development: Basic Concepts; 2 Development, Equity, and Liberation; 3 Development, Efficiency, and Equity in Historical Perspective; 4 Equity and Efficiency in the ""Mature"" Socialist Society, the USSR; 5 What Is the Evidence on Income Inequality and Development; 6 Fiscal Equity and Economic Development; 7 The Status and Efficiency of Regional Development Policies
- 8 Regional Policies for Equity: Can They Be Justified?9 Equity, Efficiency, and the Managerial Paradigm; 10 Hunger; 11 The Overexpansion of Higher Education in the Third World ; 12 New Directions in Canada's Foreign Aid? The Winegard Report and Beyond ; 13 The Static Welfare Economics of Foreign Aid: A Consolidation; 14 Trade Restrictions versus Foreign Aid As a Means of Improving a Country's Welfare; 15 The Underdevelopment of Development; 16 Towards a New Paradigm? Two Views
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "Selected works of Benjamin Higgins": p. [421]-425.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-85565-4
- 9786612855658
- 0-7735-6299-0
- OCLC:
- 1380733051
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