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Author: John Pullen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-06-26
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1134010893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Pullen presents a critical history of the concept of the Marginal Profit Theory of Distribution looking at the contributions of its proponents (eg Stigler) and its critics (eg Pareto) and stressing the continuity of the debate.
Author: Athanasios Asimakopulos
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9400926618
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book brings together the work of scholars who have written for it independent essays in their areas of particular expertise in the general field of income distribution. The first eight chapters provide a review of the major theories of income distribution, while the final two are con cerned with problems of empirical estimates and inferences. One of these chapters presents estimates of factor shares in national income in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, while the other ex amines how relationships between the size distribution of income and economic development are being investigated. A convenient way of conveying an understanding of how economic theorists have dealt with the distribution of income is to examine separ ately each major approach to this subject. Each contributor was thus assigned a particular approach, or a major theorist. No attempt was made to avoid the apparent duplication that occurs when the same references are examined by different contributors. The reader gains by seeing how the same material can be treated by those looking at it from different perspectives. A chapter each has been devoted to Marx and Marshall.
Author: Martin Bronfenbrenner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-05
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 135151282X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a well-grounded restatement, defense, and development of the theory of income distribution in both its micro- and macroeconomic aspects. The author, an authority in the field who has spent many years developing the ideas in this book, balances neoclassical theories with Keynesian and ""radical"" approaches. He considers income distribution theory in terms of ideology, statistics, micro- and macroeconomics, income policies, and the poverty problem. The result is a distinctive and comprehensive treatment of a subject that has polarized many economists over many decades. Bronfenbrenner reacts against conventional theories that concentrate on output markets, virtually ignoring input prices. He also opposes the brand of institutionalism that regards ""democratic business unionism"" as an American institution that can do no wrong. Overall, Bronfenbrenner presents an eclectic defense of a ""traditional"" theory of economics that has been under attack from rival viewpoints with insufficient rebuttal, and that proves to be a powerful tool of analysis in dealing with this subject. The book is organized into three main parts: an ideological and statistical personal introduction to income distribution, microeconomic distribution theory, and macroeconomic distribution theory. A final chapter considers incomes policies, with a rather skeptical view of the prospects for political control of income distribution within a basically free economy. The manuscript has been widely used and class tested over the past thirty-five years. The book will be useful to professional economists. It may be used as a basic text in courses on income distribution and as a supplementary text in microeconomic theory.
Author: Jesus Felipe
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2013-10-31
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1782549684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis authoritative and stimulating book represents a fundamental critique of the aggregate production function, a concept widely used in macroeconomics.
Author: Charles Britt Moss
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2022-02-25
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9811241279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProduction economics is that branch of microeconomics that examines producer decisions. This book focuses on the empirical estimation of these relationships using primal, dual, and differential specifications. The primal specification models production decisions based on the production function — estimation of the input/output relationship and the derivation of optimization behavior from this technical relationship. The dual approach estimates production decisions using economic information such as input and output prices. The textbook then develops the linkages between these relationships. The differential specification is an alternative approach derived from changes in the first-order conditions from cost minimizing behavior. In each case, the theoretical development is followed by different empirical specifications that can be used to estimate the producer's choice.
Author: J. Marchal
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1968-01-15
Total Pages: 753
ISBN-13: 1349152455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald M. Topkis
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011-02-11
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 140082253X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe economics literature is replete with examples of monotone comparative statics; that is, scenarios where optimal decisions or equilibria in a parameterized collection of models vary monotonically with the parameter. Most of these examples are manifestations of complementarity, with a common explicit or implicit theoretical basis in properties of a super-modular function on a lattice. Supermodular functions yield a characterization for complementarity and extend the notion of complementarity to a general setting that is a natural mathematical context for studying complementarity and monotone comparative statics. Concepts and results related to supermodularity and monotone comparative statics constitute a new and important formal step in the long line of economics literature on complementarity. This monograph links complementarity to powerful concepts and results involving supermodular functions on lattices and focuses on analyses and issues related to monotone comparative statics. Don Topkis, who is known for his seminal contributions to this area, here presents a self-contained and up-to-date view of this field, including many new results, to scholars interested in economic theory and its applications as well as to those in related disciplines. The emphasis is on methodology. The book systematically develops a comprehensive, integrated theory pertaining to supermodularity, complementarity, and monotone comparative statics. It then applies that theory in the analysis of many diverse economic models formulated as decision problems, noncooperative games, and cooperative games.
Author: Ching-Yao Hsieh
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-09-25
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1315495082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1986. Since the late 1960s the seeming inability of traditional monetary and fiscal policies to combat " stagflation" and address other macroeconomic issues has accelerated the erosion of confidence in the prevailing economic paradigm , the " neoclassical synthesis." * Dissensions among the members of the economics profession on both sides of the Atlantic have grown in number. By the 1970s, a majority of economists had recognized a " crisis" in economic theory. Parallel to this development, a crisis has also emerged in the Marxian camp. This volume is a discussion from the various schools of thought around three of the salient common grounds follows: the theory of a monetary economy, the disequilibrium foundations of a general equilibrium theory, and a rekindled interest in institutional factors.
Author: Dwivedi D.N.
Publisher: Vikas Publishing House
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 670
ISBN-13: 9325986701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMicroeconomics: Theory and Applications provides a comprehensive and authentic text on the theory and applications of microeconomics. The book has been thoroughly revised with new chapters and sections added at appropriate places and meets the study requirements of regular students of microeconomics and of those preparing for competitive examinations. An effort has been made to present microeconomic theories lucidly and comprehensively and to delineate the application of microeconomic theories to business decision-making and to analyse the economic effects of indirect taxes, subsidy and pricing policies of the government. Key Features • Coverage of all topics taught in Indian universities and business schools • Complex theories are explained with self-explanatory diagrams • Plenty of numerical problems • Questions from various universitiy question papers are given at the end of each chapter New in this Edition • More examples and mathematical treatment of economic theories • Substantial revision and updating of several chapters • Two additional chapters: (i) Application of Competitive Market Theory, (ii) Theory of Sales Maximization and Game Theory
Author: Donald R. Stabile
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-10-29
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 3030019985
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a new interpretation of the Employment Act of 1946. It argues that in addition to Keynesian economics, the idea of a living wage was also part of the background leading up to the Employment Act. The Act mandated that the president prepare an Economic Report on the state of the economy and how to improve it, and the idea of a living wage was an essential issue in those Economic Reports for over two decades. The author argues that macroeconomic policy in the USA consisted of a dual approach of using a living wage to increase consumption with higher wages, and fiscal policy to create jobs and higher levels of consumption, therefore forming a hybrid system of redistributive economics. An important read for scholars of economic history, this book explores Roosevelt’s role in the debates over the Employment Act in the 1940s, and underlines how Truman’s Fair Deal, Kennedy’s New Frontier and Johnson’s Great Society all had the ultimate goal of a living wage, despite their variations of its definition and name.
