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Economic Theory, Welfare and the State: Essays in Honour of John C. Weldon

✍ Scribed by Athanasios Asimakopulos, Robert D. Cairns, Christopher Green (eds.)

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1990
Tongue
English
Leaves
286
Edition
1
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Written to honour the memory of J.C. Weldon, this collection of essays seeks to reflect Weldon's professional interest in economic history and theory, including their relevance to social and political problems.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Economics: The Trunk and the Branches....Pages 12-27
The Rise and Fall of the Public Sector in the Estimation of the Economists....Pages 28-62
Group Self-interest: The Positive Analysis of Cooperative Behaviour....Pages 63-86
Probability and Rationality in Economics....Pages 87-99
On the Publicness of Fiat Money....Pages 100-120
The Role of Information in Trade Theory....Pages 121-129
Metzler’s Tariff Paradox and the Transfer Problem....Pages 130-142
On Models of the Wheat Boom in Canadian Economic History....Pages 143-155
Can We Avoid Another Great Depression?....Pages 156-175
The Rise of Unemployment since the 1950s....Pages 176-199
Public Pensions: A Social Response or a Misuse of Individual Saving?....Pages 200-217
Intergenerational Redistribution....Pages 218-237
Pension Reform and Elderly Women: Some Evidence for Ontario Urban Centres....Pages 238-259
Back Matter....Pages 261-268

✦ Subjects

Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods; Political Science

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