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Abstract/Sommario: Major durables, income and wealth - The obserations - preliminary analysis of durable ownership - A model of durable ownership - The estimation of the parameters - Discussion of the results - The possibility of aggregation - Non-technical summary.

Abstract/Sommario: Understanding macroeconomic developments and policies in the twenty-first century is daunting : policymakers face the combined challenges of supporting economic activity and employment, keeping inflation low and risks of financial crises at bay, and navigating the ever-tighter linkages of globalization.

Abstract/Sommario: Growth in post-war Belgium - A theory of investment for mature economies - Investment policies in post-war Belgium.

Abstract/Sommario: Introduction. The Rt. Hon. the earl of Halsbury - The scientific basic: R.H. macmillan - Automation in engineering production: Frank G. Woollard - The trade union approach to automation: H.R. Nicholas - Administrative applications of automation: W. R. Spencer - Social asoects of automation: Michael Argyle - Automation today: E.M. Hugh-Jones.

Abstract/Sommario: In conference - the size of the problem - the challenge of change - the new challenge - the problem of size - why do men work? - education - industry and the community - priorities - conclusions.

Abstract/Sommario: Population - manpower - industrial production - agriculture, distibution and transport - foreign trade - prices - incomes - national income and expenditure.

Abstract/Sommario: General surveys - commodities - transport and communication - miscellaneous.

Abstract/Sommario: Introduction - choice of technique and determination of relative proces - two sectors, no factors - the determination of relatoive putputs; duality - distribution and production; labour a factor - durable goods - essays in applied economics; input - output - introduction to dynamic programming.

Abstract/Sommario: The new pattern of Local Authorities - preparatory work by former authorities - creating the new authorities - relations between counties and districts - functions - staff - finance - the associations of local authorities - conclusion.

Abstract/Sommario: Introduction - the volume of capital imports - the character of capital imports - the sources of capital - conclusion.

Abstract/Sommario: Prometheus unbound - the assize of money - rotten herrings and revolution - the case for gold - conquering the monster - appendix : crisis of paper currencies.

Abstract/Sommario: Introduction - method - commodity production - capital and exploitation - accumulation - the transition to capitalism - the circuit of industrial capital - crises - notes on theory of distribution - Marx's economics and contemporary capitalism.

Abstract/Sommario: General introduction - parties and processes - economic influences in industrial relations-

Abstract/Sommario: The evolution of futures markets - concpet of risk and the futures market organisation - the theory of speculation - the theoryof storage - the theory of inter-temporal price relations.

Abstract/Sommario: The phenomenon - agricultural overpopulation and forced labour - full employment in an unfree society - the lessons of soviet experience.

Abstract/Sommario: Welfare abd the state revisited - the extension of the external economies argument - towards an economic theory of the state.

Abstract/Sommario: Two early lectures - theory of production and distribution - on the work of his contemporaries - foreign trade problems.

Abstract/Sommario: General view - population and returns - accumulation and effective demand - education and the growth of knowledge - organisation and policy - the place of money in the theory of development - the desiderability of economic development.

Abstract/Sommario: Rapid growth usually produces ugliness, untidiness and sprawl.

Abstract/Sommario: This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the Seventh General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, which was held at Tutzing, near Munich,

Abstract/Sommario: Historical survey - the operation of finance houses - principles and policy - instalment credit overseas - towards a free society.

Abstract/Sommario: The history of mathematical economics before Cournot must in some respcts be regarded as consisting of antiquarian curiosa.

Abstract/Sommario: Introduction - Europe - Middle East and Africa - East Asia and Australia - Central America and the Caribbean - South America - Appendix.

Abstract/Sommario: De - control of British shipping - work of the sections of the chamber - parliament matters.

Abstract/Sommario: Outstanding features of 1947 - work of the sections of the chamber - parliament and shipping - departmental matters.

Abstract/Sommario: Introduction: Planning and the market - Germany: The competitive order - France: A national programme - The united kingdom - The contribution of indicative programmes - Monetery and credit policy - Fiscal policy - Public expenditure - Prices, incomes and the labour merket - Regional policies and planning - The balance of payments - Planning in the european economic community - Conclusions.

Abstract/Sommario: Preface - introductory note - the one product model - the many product model.

Abstract/Sommario: Pseudo-articulation with market accounts - production account sectoring: input-output accounts - appendix: the 1954 input-output tables for the United Kingdom - income accoun sectoring: traditional national accounts - appendix. the United Kingdom national income and expenditure blue book - capital account sectoring: financial accounts - appendix : the 1963 financial accounts for the United Kingdom - consolidated account sectoring: flow-of-funds and regional accouns - the flow content o ...; [Leggi tutto...] Pseudo-articulation with market accounts - production account sectoring: input-output accounts - appendix: the 1954 input-output tables for the United Kingdom - income accoun sectoring: traditional national accounts - appendix. the United Kingdom national income and expenditure blue book - capital account sectoring: financial accounts - appendix : the 1963 financial accounts for the United Kingdom - consolidated account sectoring: flow-of-funds and regional accouns - the flow content of the accounts.

Abstract/Sommario: Introduction - the world balnce sheet - the production race - expenditure on defence and aid to the uncommitted countries - inherent advantages and disadvantages of the communist economies - some aspects of growth in the soviet economy - soviet industry - soviet agriculture, fishing and forestry - the east european communist countries - the economy of China - the economic contacts of the communist countries with the rest of the world - the summing up- appendix I - appendix II.

Abstract/Sommario: A world of chance - sample spaces and events - counting and computing - events related to events - the average, and deviations from it - correlation - population samples - trials with two outcomes - the normal distribution - raising, stars, and flying bombs - chance in nature . bibliography - answers to exercises - index.

Abstract/Sommario: Introduction - the design of the enquiry - the prisoners - the wives - the wives separeted before imprisonment - discrepances between husbands and wives - adjustement to separation - civil prisoner and their families - welfare - hire-purchase - discussion of hypotheses and family typologies - summary of the principal findings.

Abstract/Sommario: Essays in government - essays on the theory of government - essays on the relation of the church to society and the state.

Abstract/Sommario: The setting - the management of growth - the enviroment for growth.

Abstract/Sommario: Nature and extent of industry at the time of independence - Industrialization policy: Recommendations - Industrialization policy: implementation - Industrialization policy: assessment - A critique of policy - Co-ordination of industrial development within Malaysia.

Abstract/Sommario: Introduction - requirements of capital markets - pre-war markets in foreign issues - entrpot for international capital - the market in dollar bonds - international interest rates - impact on euro-dollars - impact on the dollar exchange - impacton domestic interest rates - composite unit of account loans - the market in investment dollars - some broader implications - the future of european dollar loans.

Abstract/Sommario: The role of economics - Growth and change: The barries - Planning.

Abstract/Sommario: The record of western growth - The reason for accelerated growth - Investment and growth - The role of government in promoting growth - The international environment.

Abstract/Sommario: The budget 1965 - a U.K. corporation tax - a U.K. capital gains tax.

Abstract/Sommario: Characteristics of industrial growth - genesis of the industrial revolution in France and Germany -

Abstract/Sommario: The history - Achievements and prospects.

Abstract/Sommario: Labour relations at fawley - The origins of the blue book - The course of negotiations - The agreements in practice - An assessment of results - Lesson of winder application.

Abstract/Sommario: A review of modern theory - a critique.

Abstract/Sommario: Sources and scope of central bank law - the economic and social objectives of central banking - general structure and functions of central banks - the board of directors - chief executive officer of the central bank - monetary unit - issue of notes and coins and legal tender - assets required of central banks - relationship of central bank to government - transactions and relations between central bank and other banks - open market operations - qualitative or selective credit controls ...; [Leggi tutto...] Sources and scope of central bank law - the economic and social objectives of central banking - general structure and functions of central banks - the board of directors - chief executive officer of the central bank - monetary unit - issue of notes and coins and legal tender - assets required of central banks - relationship of central bank to government - transactions and relations between central bank and other banks - open market operations - qualitative or selective credit controls - licensing, supervision and inspection of banks - central banks functions and powers in foreign exchange and gold transactions - implementation of fund agreement through central bank law and related measures.

Abstract/Sommario: Analysis of india's export performance,1961-60 - Export prospects - Towards a trade policy.

Abstract/Sommario: The development of marketing theory - the marketing perspective - managing the marketing information and research function - managing the product planning function - managing the sales and distribution function - managing the advertising and promotion function - co - ordinating and controlling the marketing functions.

Abstract/Sommario: The new economics - The method of theoretical analysis of soviet economy - The law of primitive socialist accumupation - The law of value in soviet economy.

Abstract/Sommario: The importance of human relations - Resistances to psychology - Illness and strife and the social scientist - The workings of the mind - group behaviour in industry - Why people work - Uses and abuses of leisure - The communication of ideas - Problems of particular personalities and situations - The essentials of leadrship and of being led - Resistances to teaching leadership Training courses in human relations - group discussions and role-playng - Mental first aid.

Abstract/Sommario: Theory and history - custom and command - the rise of the market - city states and colonies - money, love and credit - the finances of the sovereign - the mercantilization of agriculture - the labour market - the industrial revolution - conclusion - appendix - index.

Abstract/Sommario: The measurement of economic activity - the level of economic activity - growth and instability in economic activity - problems in the control of economic activity.

Abstract/Sommario: Although less than two yars have passed since the publoication of the first edition of this work, it has become necessary to publish a second editin, both because of the passing of the Resale Prices Act, 1964, and because of a number of important decisions under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1956.

Abstract/Sommario: The institutional framework - Motives and morals - Concepts and methods - Demand - Supply - Completed micro-models - Behaviour and evidence - Possible macro implications.

Abstract/Sommario: The Belgium_Luxembourg economic Union, 1921-1939 - The building of Benelux, 1943-1960 - The european coal and steel community.

Abstract/Sommario: Management aspects of industrial marketing research - The techniques of industrial marketing research.

Abstract/Sommario: Economic goals and the role of competition: introduction - role of competition and monopoly in economic development - alternative approaches to the control of competition : an outline of european cartel legislation and its administration - restrictive practices - german experience with cartels and their control during the pre-war and post-war periods - antitrust policy : the united state experience - the role of competition and monopoly in distribution : the experience in the United St ...; [Leggi tutto...] Economic goals and the role of competition: introduction - role of competition and monopoly in economic development - alternative approaches to the control of competition : an outline of european cartel legislation and its administration - restrictive practices - german experience with cartels and their control during the pre-war and post-war periods - antitrust policy : the united state experience - the role of competition and monopoly in distribution : the experience in the United States - the role of patents - coal and steel community : rules for a competitive market and their applications - economics and politics of the common market.

Abstract/Sommario: Preliminary observations concerning praxeology instead of an introduction - The human mind - The activisting basis of knowledge - Necessity and volition - Certainty and uncertainty - On some popular errors concerning the scope and method of economics - Further implications of the neglect of economic thinking - The epistemological roots of monism - Positivism and the crisis of western civilization.

Abstract/Sommario: Definitions and classifications - Primary/secondary relatioships - Control of the money supply - Money os a means of payment - Money as a store of value - The total demand for money - Monetary circulation - The rate of interest - The structure of interest rates - Liquidity - Foreign exchange - Monetary policy.

Abstract/Sommario: Economic theory as a policy guide - international competitiviness : the production function - international competitiviness : the marketing function - an empirical test of the product-cycle model : the united state electronics industry - the international competitiviness of first-phase products : an empirical analysis - policies for export promotion.

Abstract/Sommario: Economics : a science of decision-taking - decisions by the works manager - decisions by the marketing manager - decision - taking in project planning - decisions by the innovator - decision- taking in corporate planning - decision-taking in national and international affairs - further study.

Abstract/Sommario: The significance of Rome - The speed of change - Too many, too few, workers? - Learning and carning - The forgotten people - Change-who makes the white collar - Controlling the "one-armed bandit"- Fear not the way ahead.

Abstract/Sommario: Deficit financing: Some general considerations - Deficit financing during depression period - Deficit financin during war period - Deficit financing for economic development - Indian finances during depression and war period (1792-1945) - Indian financing during the post-war period (1946-1951) - Deficit financing in India during the process of economic development (the first fuve year plan, 1951-1956) - deficit financing in India during the process of economic development ( the second ...; [Leggi tutto...] Deficit financing: Some general considerations - Deficit financing during depression period - Deficit financin during war period - Deficit financing for economic development - Indian finances during depression and war period (1792-1945) - Indian financing during the post-war period (1946-1951) - Deficit financing in India during the process of economic development (the first fuve year plan, 1951-1956) - deficit financing in India during the process of economic development ( the second five year plan, 1956-1961) - Deficit financing economic development ( the third five year plan).

Abstract/Sommario: General economics and methodology - prices and allocation theory - macro-economics, monetary theory and distribution - international economics - public finance, monetary and fiscal policy, social accounting - communist and marxist economics - welfare economics and public utility pricing - history of thought and biography - economic development and growth.

Abstract/Sommario: The research gap and european growth - the conditions of industrial innovation - the evaluation of industrial research - assessing the economics of innovation - technical innovation : the key to faster growth? - some conditions of useful competition - competitive pressure and opportunity in innovation - industrial research and economic growth in Australia - investment and tecnìhnology in growth - information and criteria in capitali expenditure decisions - planning and technical progre ...; [Leggi tutto...] The research gap and european growth - the conditions of industrial innovation - the evaluation of industrial research - assessing the economics of innovation - technical innovation : the key to faster growth? - some conditions of useful competition - competitive pressure and opportunity in innovation - industrial research and economic growth in Australia - investment and tecnìhnology in growth - information and criteria in capitali expenditure decisions - planning and technical progress in Russia - the role of research and development institutes in applying science to industry - the automatic factory : the age of harmony, leisure and plenty? - economics in unwonted places.

Abstract/Sommario: Problem in the theory of economic growth - planning and the market - problems of economic development - economic growth in historical perspective.

Abstract/Sommario: Asian perspectives - population pressure - food shortage - foreign trade - the raw material base - industrialization - transport and communication - national budgets - economic planning - international aid - the results for the asians.

Abstract/Sommario: The general composition of eight national economics and of their manufacturing sectors - comparative plant size and concentration in selected manufacturing industries - comparative relationships of plant to company concentration - the rationale of structural differences.

Abstract/Sommario: National accounts - public finance and banking - economic development.

Abstract/Sommario: Use of resources - agriculture - use of resources - industry - prices and markets - national accounts - public finance and banking - economic development.

Abstract/Sommario: industry and planning - agriculture - housing,labour and trade - economic development in other communist countries.

Abstract/Sommario: Introduction: Ralph Harris - Biographies - Health through choice D.S. Lees - Uk, commonwealth and common market: A Reappraisal James E. Meade - The wage fixers Henry Smith - Libraires: free-for-all?: A.P.Herbert - Relief for ratepayers: A.R. Ilersic.

Abstract/Sommario: The importance of the cinema,principles for intervention - bachground:1900-1945 - Never-eding crisis - Power and the cinema - Power and the film-makers - American influence - Prospects for production - Cinema and public - Talent and training - The film unions and employment prospects - Proposals.

Abstract/Sommario: Fads and fancies - Principles for growth - Welfare for affluenceStrategy for choice.

Abstract/Sommario: Protection of infants principle - The political economists argument of the neighbourhood effects of education - Theoretical and empirical antecedents - New patterns in state responsibility.

Abstract/Sommario: The theme defined - Case histories of 21 firms - Anatomy of businees enterprise - Enterprise-its purpose and prospects.

Abstract/Sommario: introductory historical sketch -the nucleus of organisation - the rise of the modern money market - the struggle towards consolidation - confederacy, the great avowal and the supreme test.

Abstract/Sommario: Strikes : and the car industry - the issues in dispute - productivity growth and technical change - strikes and the level of activity - wages in the motor industry - the work, workers and work situation - trade unions and shop stewards - the firms compared : and the employers' organization - the biggest strikes : and the role of individuals - industrial relations in foreign car firms.

Abstract/Sommario: Role of the government budget in the chinese economy - the revenue system - evaluation of the chinese revenue system.

Abstract/Sommario: The russian peasant - choices facing the soviet planner - the soviet consumer and the optimal plan - the market mechanism in a socialist economy - recent population trends in the USSR - long-run export policy in a centrally-planned economy - soviet farm oputput and food supply in 1970 - soviet statistical abstracts.

Abstract/Sommario: The plan and purpose of the book - The growth of firms - Industrial organisation - Incomes. A macro-economic survey - Overseas trade.

Abstract/Sommario: Political participation as rational action - values and stable democracy: three theories - Values and democratic stability: the setting and the problems - The economic theory of democrecy - Testing theories of democrecy (1) - Testing theories of democredy (2).

Abstract/Sommario: The evolution of modern economic theory - Schumpeter on the history of economic analysis - Bentham in the twentieth century - Malthus in perspective - Torrens's letters on commercial policy - The life of John Stuart Mill . Mill's essays on economi and society - Mill's principles of political economy - The place of Jevons in the history of economic thought - Philip Wicksteed as an economist - Wicksell's lectures on political economy - New light on knust wicksell - A biographical note on ...; [Leggi tutto...] The evolution of modern economic theory - Schumpeter on the history of economic analysis - Bentham in the twentieth century - Malthus in perspective - Torrens's letters on commercial policy - The life of John Stuart Mill . Mill's essays on economi and society - Mill's principles of political economy - The place of Jevons in the history of economic thought - Philip Wicksteed as an economist - Wicksell's lectures on political economy - New light on knust wicksell - A biographical note on Edwin Cannan - Montagu Norman: A monarch in the city - Harrod on Keynes - Robertson's lectures on economic principles.

Abstract/Sommario: the worker and his job - The worker and his work group - The worker and his firm - The worker and his union - The worker and his economic future - Orientation to work and its social correlares.

Abstract/Sommario: Introduction - economic unions - political unions - wiver groupings.

Abstract/Sommario: The marxist tradition - institutions and definitions - Inflation and the Soviet-type economy - A production- oriented view of the balance of payments - the balance-of payments crisis in the command economy - Exchange rates - Micro-rationality and foreign trade criteria - Trade "structure" and long-term policy - Settling the terms of trade - Bilateralism - Imperfect competition, decentralized planning & national sovereignity - The political economy of international integration invisib ...; [Leggi tutto...] The marxist tradition - institutions and definitions - Inflation and the Soviet-type economy - A production- oriented view of the balance of payments - the balance-of payments crisis in the command economy - Exchange rates - Micro-rationality and foreign trade criteria - Trade "structure" and long-term policy - Settling the terms of trade - Bilateralism - Imperfect competition, decentralized planning & national sovereignity - The political economy of international integration invisibles other than capital - Capital transactions - Autarky - The economic theory of economic war and imperialism - Economic warfare in communist practice - Trade and peace.

Abstract/Sommario: Economies, economizing,economists and economic science - The facts of economic life - Industry and commerce: occupations and their location - The market economy-I wants incomes - The market economy-II prices and profits - The cycles of economic activity - The instuments of State intervention in the market economiy - Economic planning or a planned economy?.

Abstract/Sommario: Reason in social study - history and the social sciences - the historical method in social science - Function and dialectic in economic history - fact and relevance in historical study - Economic and social history - Economic growt - A plague of economists? - The uses and abuses of economics - Agriculture and economic development: a lesson of history - technological progress in post-war europe - A study of history - Karl Marx: a democrat - Hugh gaitskell: political and intellectual pro ...; [Leggi tutto...] Reason in social study - history and the social sciences - the historical method in social science - Function and dialectic in economic history - fact and relevance in historical study - Economic and social history - Economic growt - A plague of economists? - The uses and abuses of economics - Agriculture and economic development: a lesson of history - technological progress in post-war europe - A study of history - Karl Marx: a democrat - Hugh gaitskell: political and intellectual progress.

Abstract/Sommario: The history - Achievements and prospects.

Abstract/Sommario: Editorial introduction - The depletion of energy resources - Some issues in the current debate about energy and natural resources - comments on the papers by Robinson, and surrey and page - Discussion by conference delegates - optimal depletion of a replenish-able resource: an evaluation of recent contributions to fisheries economics - Discussion by conference delegates - Economic aspects of natural resource depletion - The desirability of natural resource depletion - Comments on the p ...; [Leggi tutto...] Editorial introduction - The depletion of energy resources - Some issues in the current debate about energy and natural resources - comments on the papers by Robinson, and surrey and page - Discussion by conference delegates - optimal depletion of a replenish-able resource: an evaluation of recent contributions to fisheries economics - Discussion by conference delegates - Economic aspects of natural resource depletion - The desirability of natural resource depletion - Comments on the papers by butlin. heal, and kay and mirrlees - Resource conservation and the market mechanism - discussion by conference delegates.

Abstract/Sommario: Angell's viaion - De Gaulle's disengagement - Washington's legacy - Jackson's heirs - Lincoln's luck - Carnegie's cavalry - Chase's somersault - Morgan's mission - Mc Kinley's prayer - Bismarck's breakthrough - Warburg's americanization - Wilson's failure - Keynes's revolution - Morgenthau's mistakes - Roosevelt's success - Forrestal's dilemma - Truman's trap - Eisenhower's escape - Martin's mystique - Johnson's jungles - Mc Namara's mirage.

Abstract/Sommario: Sense and nonsense in budgetary policy - central government taxation - measuring the efficiency of government expenditure - local authority capital finance - practices and problems - public authprity pricing - reflections on public authority investment - incomes policy-fishing with a line or a net? - monetary policy - regional economic planning.

Abstract/Sommario: The regulation of international sea transport - USA legislation and the foreign shippower : a critique - investmehnt in shipping and the balance of payments : a case-study of import-substitution policy - economic criteria for optimal ship designs- the economic of automation in British shipping - the turnround of cargo liners and its effects on the sea transports costs - towards an economic appraisal of port investments.

Abstract/Sommario: Introduction - tools of analysis - money and banking - foreign trade - planning for economic development - the possibilities of african economic unification.

Abstract/Sommario: Technological change - the process of invention - size of firm, invention and innovation - competition in innovation - scientists and engineers : their supply and demand - the government's role - technological change in industry - co-operative industrial research - the universities' contribution - the background to the study - hovercraft production, operations and markets the technical development of the air cushion principle - the development of industry public involvment.

Abstract/Sommario: Theory - applications - appendices.

Abstract/Sommario: The analytical apparatus - economic evolution in the expansive time-horizon.