Selected Essays on Economic Policy
Selected Essays on Economic Policy

Author: G. Harcourt

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2001-01-26

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0230510566

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This volume contains classic essays on economic policy written by one of its great exponents. The opening essay traces the author's evolving structures of thought about economics and the policy proposals that came from them over this period. Section 2 contains essays which set the background to the policy recommendations. In section 3 the role of investment incentives is analysed. Section 4 is concerned with the influence of accounting conventions on private decision-making and government policy in both capitalist and planned economies. Section 5 contains a number of package deals, all designed to fit within the constraint of the philosophy of governments in power. The last section, general essays, ranges from a scheme for the payment of prisoners to the celebration of the views on policy of great economists, from Colin Clark, through Nicky Kaldor to John Cornwall.

Innovation, Economic Development and Policy
Innovation, Economic Development and Policy

Author: Jan Fagerberg

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2018-04-27

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1788110269

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This authoritative and enlightening book focuses on fundamental questions such as what is innovation, who is it relevant for, what are the effects, and what is the role of (innovation) policy in supporting innovation-diffusion? The first two sections present a comprehensive overview of our current knowledge on the phenomenon and analyse how this knowledge (and the scholarly community underpinning it) has evolved towards its present state. The third part explores the role of innovation for growth and development, while section four is concerned with the national innovation system and the role of (innovation) policy in influencing its dynamics and responding to the important challenges facing contemporary societies.

John R. Commons: Selected Essays
John R. Commons: Selected Essays

Author: Malcolm Rutherford

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-03-10

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1134775571

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John R. Commons is one of the most significant figures in the development of American economics. One of the founders of the Institutional school, Commons developed theories of the evolution of capitalism and of institutional change which continue to influence modern economics. These volumes collect, for the first time, his major essays and articles.

Selected Essays on Employment and Growth
Selected Essays on Employment and Growth

Author: Richard Ferdinand Kahn

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1972-05-11

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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Lord Kahn was a leading figure in the development of modern economic theory. Not only did he play a vital role in the conception of the new theories of employment and money in the inter-war period, but he also made important contributions to the further development of monetary theory and the theories of economic growth during the last half of the twentieth century. This selection of essays illustrates the broad range of Lord Kahn's achievement, from the path-breaking 'multiplier' article to a recent essay on the growth of corporate firms. It brings together both papers previously published in academic journals and papers published elsewhere, including his important evidence to the Radcliffe Committee and two radio talks on Lord Keynes.

Selected Essays in Monetary Economics (Collected Works of Harry Johnson)
Selected Essays in Monetary Economics (Collected Works of Harry Johnson)

Author: Harry Johnson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-07-18

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1135052506

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This volume consists of selected previously published key essays which have proved most useful for teaching advanced monetary economics. A short introduction was added which places the selection of essays and the issues they cover in the contemporaneous context of simultaneous high inflation and high unemployment. As relevant today as they were when they were first written, they enable the reader to anticipate intelligently what is likely to happen and why.