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

✍ Scribed by Athanasios Asimakopulos; Robert D. Cairns

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 291
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

J.C. Weldon was a superb analyst with a deep, abiding interest in economic, social, and political problems. This collection of papers, written in honour of his memory, examines a number of the issues that went to make up his wide ranging professional interests.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Notes on the Contributors
John C. Weldon (1922-87): An Appreciation
The Publications of John C. Weldon
1 Introduction
2 Economics: The Trunk and the Branches
3 The Rise and Fall of the Public Sector in the Estimation of the Economists
4 Group Self-interest: The Positive Analysis of Cooperative Behaviour
5 Probability and Rationality in Economics
6 On the Publicness of Fiat Money
7 The Role of Information in Trade Theory
8 Metzler's Tariff Paradox and the Transfer Problem
9 On Models of the Wheat Boom in Canadian Economic History
10 Can We Avoid Another Great Depression?
11 The Rise of Unemployment since the 1950s
12 Public Pensions: A Social Response or a Misuse of Individual Saving?
13 Intergenerational Redistribution
14 Pension Reform and Elderly Women: Some Evidence for Ontario Urban Centres
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