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Abstract/Sommario: Mercantilist and physiocratic growth theory - adam smith and david ricardo on economic growth - the theory of economic growth in the english classical school - john stuart mill on economic development - toward a theory of economic growth: the neoclassical contribution - theories of stages of economic growth - contemporary theorizing on economic growth.

Abstract/Sommario: introduction - the data : knowns and unknowns - the product mix: composition, quality and variety - growth trends: a sample of industries - aggregative growth trends: measurement - aggregative growth trens: analysis - some details of growth - industrial growth: a comparison with the united states - summary - appendixes.

Abstract/Sommario: The integral is an abstract space - mcaratheodory measure - functions of bounded variation and the lebesguestieltjes integral - derivation of additive functions of a set and of an interval - area of a surface - major and minor functions - functions of generalized bounded variation - denjoy integrals - derivates of functions of one or two real variables - on haar's measure - the lebesgue integral in abstract spaces.

Abstract/Sommario: New predictive theory - the basic truism - the partition and measure of elements - the law ok k - the law of the price level - on predicting the price level - the wedding ceremony : price level and aggregate output - a miscat federal reserve - wage policy : a way out - decomposing k - an empirical macroeconomic theory of income distribution - a final price level generalization - the price leveò over time : the final synthesis for a growing economy

Abstract/Sommario: The problem of capital budgeting - illustrating the measures of investment worth - present value versus yield - the meaning of present value - classifying investments - timing of replacements - the use of cash flows in evaluating investments - income taxes and investment decisions - uncertainty and the investment decision - the cost of capital - capital budgeting under capital rationing - a manual for investment decisions.

Abstract/Sommario: Preface - approaches to the analysis of devaluation a brief survey - macroeconomic models of open economies: come specification problems - an integrated macroeconomic model of an open economy - long-run adjustement and the role of monetary and fiscal policies - macroeconomic versus Walrasian models of an open economy.

Abstract/Sommario: Rights and dollars - the case for the market - equality of income and opportunity - increasing equality in an efficient economy.

Abstract/Sommario: The idea of dedicating to V.G. Groman the best writing that i could master is one of long standing.

Abstract/Sommario: Introduction - Afrique occidentale francaise - Afrique orientale - Afrique du sud - Algerie et Sahara - Republique Arabe Unie - Republique du Congo - Ethiopie - Gabon - Kenya - Libye - Mauritanie - Nigeria - Ouganda - Federation de Rhodesie et Nyassaland - Ruanda-Urundi - Soudan - Tanganyka.

Abstract/Sommario: Fundamentals - Develipment of the trade agreements program - Consumer demand and economic growth - Free trade fallacies - effects of imports - Prospects and problems.

Abstract/Sommario: The general setting - cycles of total federal test - composition and maturity structure of the federal debt - distribution of federal debt by ownership - composition and maturity structure of federal debt by ownerwship.

Abstract/Sommario: Trade and resource allocation - trade, growth and development - money, prices and the balance of payments

Abstract/Sommario: Legal bases . the structure of the fund - functions - schedule a quotas - status of membership of the international monetary fund - increase of quotas - general arrangements to borrow - international monetary fund directory: members, quotas, governors, voting power, executive board.

Abstract/Sommario: Introduction - economic criteria, principles, and policies of the taxation of foreign investment income - historical development of principles and policies - taxation of foreign-source business income and the incentive to foreign investment - "tax-sparing" and capital formation in the underdeveloped countries - taxation of foreign investment income and the distribution of world income - tax treatment of foreign investment income and the balance of payments - evaluation of u.s. foreign ...; [Leggi tutto...] Introduction - economic criteria, principles, and policies of the taxation of foreign investment income - historical development of principles and policies - taxation of foreign-source business income and the incentive to foreign investment - "tax-sparing" and capital formation in the underdeveloped countries - taxation of foreign investment income and the distribution of world income - tax treatment of foreign investment income and the balance of payments - evaluation of u.s. foreign direct investment and conclusions for policy with respect to its taxation.

Abstract/Sommario: The general price level - prices and laws of exchange - employment and the price level - the keynesian thoery of inflation - alternative approaches to the theory of inflation - business behavior and the price level - wages, earnings and the demand for labour - moeny and assets - money, velocity and income - the process of inflation - inflation and economic policy.

Abstract/Sommario: This book si concerned with the theory and solution of linear inequality systems.

Abstract/Sommario: Objectives of budget simulation - on the evolution of budgeting and budget simulation - model and budget matrix - implementation - potential refinements -commentary on program and output - the computer program - data input - computer output illustration.

Abstract/Sommario: How to comunicate staistical findings to management - developments in regional analysis - stock market forecast for 1957 -8 - problems of seasonal measurement - factors influencing inventory changes - consumer expenditur estimates for food and their uses - income distribution and sub-standard kevels of living - some new factors in the long-run economic outlook - developments in methods for short-term forecasting - I : a review of national bureau of economic research lead indicators an ...; [Leggi tutto...] How to comunicate staistical findings to management - developments in regional analysis - stock market forecast for 1957 -8 - problems of seasonal measurement - factors influencing inventory changes - consumer expenditur estimates for food and their uses - income distribution and sub-standard kevels of living - some new factors in the long-run economic outlook - developments in methods for short-term forecasting - I : a review of national bureau of economic research lead indicators and other diffusion indexes - developments in methods for short-term forecasting - II: correlation techniques and anticipatory data - the economic outlook - concentration in manifacturing industry - methods of estimating retail and consumer inventories - revision of industrial classification - national long-term economic projections - national long-term economic projections II: developments in projecting productivity trends - developments in methods for short-term forecasting III: Econometric and other tecniques -tolerances in economic projections and forecast - capital formation - analysis of consumption : comparison of aggregative methods with cross-sectional analysis of survey data - short-term demand for consumer durables and housing: research methods - current life: insurance research on owners and buyers - contribued papers.

Abstract/Sommario: Organizational enviroment of the industrial research laboratory - interpretation.

Abstract/Sommario: Public session - closed session.

Abstract/Sommario: In response to many requests , the Committee for Economic Development (CED) Hhas assembled the talks given by six experts on U.S.-Soviet competition at its Fifteenth Anniversary Meeting in Washington D.C., on November 21, 1957.

Abstract/Sommario: Introduction - the operation laid out - prospects for sustaining a high level of business investment - research-key to growth and stability - the changing consumer market - the fateful art of marketing - government's expanding role - will there be enough and rugged enough competition? - prospects of avoiding disastrous price inflation - are agriculture's aches contagious? - U.S. business and the world overseas - the last round - up - development of the McGraw-Hill index of manufacturin ...; [Leggi tutto...] Introduction - the operation laid out - prospects for sustaining a high level of business investment - research-key to growth and stability - the changing consumer market - the fateful art of marketing - government's expanding role - will there be enough and rugged enough competition? - prospects of avoiding disastrous price inflation - are agriculture's aches contagious? - U.S. business and the world overseas - the last round - up - development of the McGraw-Hill index of manufacturing capacity - special problems in income distribution - improvements in the U.S. economic intelligence - special aids for small business.

Abstract/Sommario: The general linear - programming problem - the transportation problem and its variants - special methods.

Abstract/Sommario: Introduction - the road to bretton woods - development of the bretton woods system - emergence of a U.S. balance of payments - a policy-mix for external equilibrium - capital flows and external adjustment.

Abstract/Sommario: Anatomy of investment behavior - financial aspects - consumer assets - producer durables - anticipations.

Abstract/Sommario: Economics and statistics - a review of economic concepts - a review of statistical concepts - simple regression and the measurement of economic relationship - index numbers and time series - simple regression analysis: alternative models - multiple regression analysis - the analysis of variance - - the logical or structural analysis of economic time series - the construction of large-scale economic models: a proving ground for economic statistics - identification, casual ordering, and ...; [Leggi tutto...] Economics and statistics - a review of economic concepts - a review of statistical concepts - simple regression and the measurement of economic relationship - index numbers and time series - simple regression analysis: alternative models - multiple regression analysis - the analysis of variance - - the logical or structural analysis of economic time series - the construction of large-scale economic models: a proving ground for economic statistics - identification, casual ordering, and estimation in economic models - alternative methods of estimation in economic models.

Abstract/Sommario: Foundations of antitrust - Antitrust in a single product context - Antitrust in a multiple product context.

Abstract/Sommario: Introducion - The giant corporation - The tendency of surplus: dcpitalists consumption and investment - The absorption of surpli: the sales effort - The absorption of surpli: civilian government - The absorption of surpli: militarism and imperialism - On the history of monopoly capitalism - Monopoly capitalism and race relations - On the quality of monopèoly capitalist society - The irrational system.

Abstract/Sommario: The 1967 edition in this series marks the sixht comprehensive data book on national statistics to be related by the Bureau of Labor Statistics since 1961 and replaces of Employment and Earnings Statistics for the United States, 1909- 1966 (BLS Bullettin 1312-4, issued in 1966).

Abstract/Sommario: Introduction: theory, controversial issues and changing views - the role of money in business fluctuations - relation of the quantity and velocity of money to effective demand and the price level - relation of saving, debt, and liquidity preference to monetary policy and business instability - central banking and monetary policy - improvement of monetary policy.

Abstract/Sommario: The purpose and plan of the study - growth rates and output levels - characteristics of output measures governing their analysis - income shares and their use in growth analysis - labor input:general features and numbers employed - lenght of the work year - hours workedby men, women and young people - education of the labor force - labor input: un measured elements and summary - capital input and gross investment - dwellings and international assets - nonresidential structures and equi ...; [Leggi tutto...] The purpose and plan of the study - growth rates and output levels - characteristics of output measures governing their analysis - income shares and their use in growth analysis - labor input:general features and numbers employed - lenght of the work year - hours workedby men, women and young people - education of the labor force - labor input: un measured elements and summary - capital input and gross investment - dwellings and international assets - nonresidential structures and equipment - inventories - land and natural resources - contributions of total factor input and output per unit of input - excessive allocation of labor to farming and self-employment - gains from economies of scale - allocation and use of resources: some additional aspects - effect of irregular fluctuations on growth rates of output - advances of knowledge and other residual sources - the sources of grotwth and contrasts between Europe.

Abstract/Sommario: Preface - firms, objectives and industrial structure - industry subgroupings - cost conditions - pricing behavior - product differentattion - seller concentration - barriers to entry - vertical integration - diversification - public policy and industrial structure.

Abstract/Sommario: Introduction - ten assumptions - consumers' choice - the market for consumption goods - the terms of trade - constant costs - increasing costs : comparative advantages - increasing costs: a fized factor - increasing costs: differences in factor proportions - many factors and many products - changes in technical knowledge and in factor supplies - fized technical co-efficients - cconomy efficiency and the distrubution of income - the centrally planned economy: the organization of consump ...; [Leggi tutto...] Introduction - ten assumptions - consumers' choice - the market for consumption goods - the terms of trade - constant costs - increasing costs : comparative advantages - increasing costs: a fized factor - increasing costs: differences in factor proportions - many factors and many products - changes in technical knowledge and in factor supplies - fized technical co-efficients - cconomy efficiency and the distrubution of income - the centrally planned economy: the organization of consumption - the centrally planned economy: the organization of production - the centrally planned economy: the deployment of labor - conclusion.

Abstract/Sommario: Placing the study of accounting in perspective - broad objcectives of enterprise accounting - the accounting standard: fairness to all parties - accounting principles based upon the standard: coordinating principles - accounting principles based upon the standard: application principles - rules and procedures: is "uniformity" the answer? - appendix - selected bibliography.

Abstract/Sommario: Introduction - how we began - the tremont as we found it - launching the project - beginning in the coffee shop - the housekeeping department - midstream - cashiers and checkers - the front office - the king cole room.

Abstract/Sommario: Introduction to engineering economy - interest, equivalence, and depreciation - planning engineering economy analysis - engineering economy analysis - accounting, cost accounting, and income taxes - operations economy.

Abstract/Sommario: Background - structure - problems - prospects - appendices.

Abstract/Sommario: Comodities with international significance - the role of agriculture in economic development - the world oil outlook - food and the world fisheries situation - resources in Europe, Canada, Africa and Latin America - Resource development and utilization in the soviet economy - resource relationship among countries of western Europe - resource development among african countries - resource aspects of latin-american economic development - problems, situation, process - terms of trade for ...; [Leggi tutto...] Comodities with international significance - the role of agriculture in economic development - the world oil outlook - food and the world fisheries situation - resources in Europe, Canada, Africa and Latin America - Resource development and utilization in the soviet economy - resource relationship among countries of western Europe - resource development among african countries - resource aspects of latin-american economic development - problems, situation, process - terms of trade for primary products - potentials and hazards of direct international investment in raw materials - international transfer of knowledge and capital.

Abstract/Sommario: Introduction - wealth and output - output and income - saving and investment - the consumption sector - the investment sector - investment and equilibrium - the government sector - money and prices - the determination of output - employment and output - the problem of growth.

Abstract/Sommario: The theory of consumption and exchange - the theory of production - input analysis - the theory of production - output analysis - supplementary analysis - distribution - other aspects of economic theory.

Abstract/Sommario: Economics: the study of production and consumption - business and prices in our economy - the role of industry, labor and agriculture - the creation and employment of money -private and national wealth and income - our american economy in a divided world.

Abstract/Sommario: Preface - background to the case study - the organization and its task - the politicians - the climate of neighborhood opinion - the development of policy - the struggle begins - climax - settlement . politics - planning - the public interest - supplement: note on conceptual scheme map appendix - acknowledgements and reference notes - index to particular concepts - general index.

Abstract/Sommario: What economists know and do not know - government finance: taxes, debt and inflation - progress and poverty - the economics of foreing relations - free enterprise and its critics.

Abstract/Sommario: Definitions of liquidity - Adequacy of liquidity: a first consideration - The statistical record - Meaning of adequac: a reconsideration - The composition of liquidity - Summary and conclusions.

Abstract/Sommario: Is our economy managed by natural law or by human institutions? - central management without a general manager - more about how economic activity is programed - private capital formation, government purchase, and the level of production - other aspects of central management in an industrialized economy - steps toward a modernized theory of the firm - three capital budget problems and certain other questions - improving pecuniary incentives - freedom of enterprise and personal freedom ...; [Leggi tutto...] Is our economy managed by natural law or by human institutions? - central management without a general manager - more about how economic activity is programed - private capital formation, government purchase, and the level of production - other aspects of central management in an industrialized economy - steps toward a modernized theory of the firm - three capital budget problems and certain other questions - improving pecuniary incentives - freedom of enterprise and personal freedom - two major problem areas.

Abstract/Sommario: Introduction - regional underdevelopment in the south of Italy. Central and south-west France - what has been done to redress the situation regional imbalances in the european economic community - freedem of circulation within the community and financial institutions - agriculture - other main economic factors - risks inherent in integration between developed and underdeveloped regions - appendix.

Abstract/Sommario: The eighteenth century; Locke and newton; the natural order; and the phisiocratis - Adam Smith's forerunners in moral philosophy - Adam Smith's philosophy of science and theory of social psychology and ethics - Adam Smit's ideal and theory of the self-adjusting liberal economy - Benthamism - Malthus; population growth and poverty; and classical economics - Ricardo: Introductory - Ricardo: The ricardian theory of exchange valeus, income shares and economic growth, and the under consimpt ...; [Leggi tutto...] The eighteenth century; Locke and newton; the natural order; and the phisiocratis - Adam Smith's forerunners in moral philosophy - Adam Smith's philosophy of science and theory of social psychology and ethics - Adam Smit's ideal and theory of the self-adjusting liberal economy - Benthamism - Malthus; population growth and poverty; and classical economics - Ricardo: Introductory - Ricardo: The ricardian theory of exchange valeus, income shares and economic growth, and the under consimption heresy - John Stuart Mill: Philosophy, ethics, politics, and logic - john Stuart Mill. Economics and political economy - Karl Marx and his intellectual system; irs social ist, hegelian, ricardian elements - Victorian conservative liberalism and neo-classical economics - Marshallian economics - From the last heyday of the classical liberalism, regimes, and conflicts; communism and fascism - The mid-twentieth-century world's ideologies, regimes, and conflicts: democretic socialism, and intervRecent developments of new economentionist liberalism - Recent developments of economic theories relevant to problems of public policy: A new analysis of competition and monopoly - Recent developments of new economic theories relevant to problems of public policy: Keynesian economics.

Abstract/Sommario: The issues - the accelerator-residual funds hypothesis - notes on samples and variables - cyclical patterns, 1946 to 1958 - investment decisions, 1951 - 1954 : a preliminary cross-section analysis - investment decisions, 1951-1954: a cross-section evaluation of alternative models - investment behavior, 1948-1958: a time-series analysis - multicollinearity and constrained regression estimation - forecasting investment : concepts and empirical implications - method, thoery and policy : s ...; [Leggi tutto...] The issues - the accelerator-residual funds hypothesis - notes on samples and variables - cyclical patterns, 1946 to 1958 - investment decisions, 1951 - 1954 : a preliminary cross-section analysis - investment decisions, 1951-1954: a cross-section evaluation of alternative models - investment behavior, 1948-1958: a time-series analysis - multicollinearity and constrained regression estimation - forecasting investment : concepts and empirical implications - method, thoery and policy : some implications.

Abstract/Sommario: Introduction - the institutional setting - the analytical framework - potential economic growth - business cycle theories - more business cycle theory - cyclical growth - economic concentration and cyclical growth - international aspects of cyclical growth - government policy and cyclical growth.

Abstract/Sommario: Can economics be a science? - the logic of economic science - the historical trend of economic science - aspects of a science ok political economics.

Abstract/Sommario: The greenback period - silver politics and the secular decline in prices, 1879-1897 - gold inflation and banking reform , 1897-1914 - early years of the federal reserve system, 1914 -1921 - the high tide of the reserve system, 1921-1929 - the great contraction,1921-1923 - new deal changes in the baking structure and monetary standard - cyclical changes, 1933-1941 - world's war II inflation, september 1939-august 1948 - revival of monetary policy, 1948-1960 - the postwar rise in velocit ...; [Leggi tutto...] The greenback period - silver politics and the secular decline in prices, 1879-1897 - gold inflation and banking reform , 1897-1914 - early years of the federal reserve system, 1914 -1921 - the high tide of the reserve system, 1921-1929 - the great contraction,1921-1923 - new deal changes in the baking structure and monetary standard - cyclical changes, 1933-1941 - world's war II inflation, september 1939-august 1948 - revival of monetary policy, 1948-1960 - the postwar rise in velocity - a summing up.

Abstract/Sommario: Social problems - juvenile delinquency - crime.

Abstract/Sommario: Labor as a source of income - Labor as a movement - Labor as a factor of preduction - Labor as a market - Labor as a pressure group - Labor as the subject of social protection - Labor in relation to the performance of the economy - Labor in the years ahead.

Abstract/Sommario: The background : 1946 - 1954 - the relaunching of europe - drafting the treaty of rome - the proposal for a free trade area - the free trade area negotiations - the aftermath of the breakdowns of the free trade area negotiations - the european free trade association - bridge-building and the reorganization of the oeec - the shift in british policy: reappraisal - the shift in british policy : changing course - the first stage of the negotiations on british accession - discussion on poli ...; [Leggi tutto...] The background : 1946 - 1954 - the relaunching of europe - drafting the treaty of rome - the proposal for a free trade area - the free trade area negotiations - the aftermath of the breakdowns of the free trade area negotiations - the european free trade association - bridge-building and the reorganization of the oeec - the shift in british policy: reappraisal - the shift in british policy : changing course - the first stage of the negotiations on british accession - discussion on political union - the commonwealth prime ministers' meeting and the party conferences - the last phase of the accession : negotiations - a few conclusion - index .

Abstract/Sommario: the development of the european - relations with great ritain and the united states - present difficulties and future decisions - epilogue.

Abstract/Sommario: The historical background of the european economic community - the institutional framework - trade and the common market - agricultural integration - regional problems in the european economic community - the coordination of social policies, labor mobility and the right of establishment - the EEC and the less developed countries - industrial monopoly, transportation and public policy - the coordination of national taxation and countercyclical policies - monetary coordination - the EEC ...; [Leggi tutto...] The historical background of the european economic community - the institutional framework - trade and the common market - agricultural integration - regional problems in the european economic community - the coordination of social policies, labor mobility and the right of establishment - the EEC and the less developed countries - industrial monopoly, transportation and public policy - the coordination of national taxation and countercyclical policies - monetary coordination - the EEC and remainder of Europe - the commmon market and the Unite States - some aspects of european political integration.

Abstract/Sommario: Tax alternatives for the next decade - appraisal of present corporate income tax - altenatives to corporate income tax : value - added tax - alternatives to corporate income tax : broad-based excise taxation - re-examination of individual income tax progression - alternatives to individual income tax - aspects of national tax policy.

Abstract/Sommario: History and vision of european integration - Consequences of the common market - The common market and non-member countries - The challenge and the future.

Abstract/Sommario: Economic planning as part of the economic process: Actors task, and elements - Influence exerted on the general economic progress - The influence of circumstances and ideas on the nature and intensity of planning - optimal planning.

Abstract/Sommario: The evolution of the international monetary system: 1815-1965 - Reform plans and negotiations.

Abstract/Sommario: General, introductory texts - mathematical statistics - Probability and stchastic processes - Sample surveys: theory and practice - Design of experiments - Quality control and inspection - Econometrics, time series and index numbres - Statistical decision and information theory - Demography, biometry and medical statistics - miscellaneous application of statidtical methods.

Abstract/Sommario: The dawn of economic science - the classical school - socialists and reformers - historical and institutional approaches - the rise of marginalism - the growth of modern economics.

Abstract/Sommario: The problem of unemployment, by Arthur M. Ross - Retraining and labor market policies - The problem of expanding economy activity - What can we learn from european experience? - Conclusion by Arthur M Ross.

Abstract/Sommario: Problems of economic instability - instability issues of the interwar period - general survey of postwar economic - growth interruptions and balance of payments restrictions in the united kingdom - stabilization policy experiences in sweden - econometric forecasting and policy planning in the netherlands - "explosive" growth and growth interruptions in Japan - postwar stability problems in the United States and Canada.

Abstract/Sommario: scarcity, competitive bahavior and economics - some behavior postulates - basis of exchange - demand and the laws of demand - market demand, allocation and equilibrium price - applications of demand analysis to market pricing and allocation - price-takers' and price-searchers' markets - nonclearing market prices - allocation of consumable goods over Times : Speculation - production, exchange, specialization and efficiency - production in various market conditions - production with mark ...; [Leggi tutto...] scarcity, competitive bahavior and economics - some behavior postulates - basis of exchange - demand and the laws of demand - market demand, allocation and equilibrium price - applications of demand analysis to market pricing and allocation - price-takers' and price-searchers' markets - nonclearing market prices - allocation of consumable goods over Times : Speculation - production, exchange, specialization and efficiency - production in various market conditions - production with market restrictions, exchange and property enforcement costs and public goods - capital values, interest rates and wealth - costs and output programs - the business firm and profits - production by firms in price-takers' open markets - production and pricing in price-searchers' open markets - sellers' tactics for changing market conditions - derived demand for productive resources - wages, employment and unemployment in open markets- labor market restrictions - interest, saving and investing - growth and distribution of wealth.

Abstract/Sommario: The objectives of foreign economic assistance - the foundations of modern aid theories and strategies: a review of development theories - the macroeconomics of aid: foreign aid theories - the macroeconomics of aid: debt service and loan terms - the microeconomics of aid: foreign aid strategies - economic issues relating to the major forms of aid for development - foreign aid by any other name - foreign aid onors and the burden of aid.

Abstract/Sommario: High-level manpower in the economic development of Argentina, Morris A. Horowitz - High-level manpower for Perù, William Foote Whyte - The role of high-level manpower in the economic development of Chile, rudolph C. Blitz - Manpower and education in Puerto Rico, William H. Knowles - Iran's experience with manpower planning: concepts, thecniques, and lesson, Geirgwe B. Baldwin - High-level manpower for economic development the Indonesian experience, Bruce Glassburner - The impact of ind ...; [Leggi tutto...] High-level manpower in the economic development of Argentina, Morris A. Horowitz - High-level manpower for Perù, William Foote Whyte - The role of high-level manpower in the economic development of Chile, rudolph C. Blitz - Manpower and education in Puerto Rico, William H. Knowles - Iran's experience with manpower planning: concepts, thecniques, and lesson, Geirgwe B. Baldwin - High-level manpower for economic development the Indonesian experience, Bruce Glassburner - The impact of industrialization on higher education in Communist China, Immanuel C.Y. Hsu - Education and manpower in Senegal, Guinea, and the Ivory-Coast, Elliot Berg - High-level manpower in Nyasaland's development,George Seltzer - high-level manpower in the economic development of Uganda,Robert L. Thomas - Issues in manpower policy: some contrast East-Africa and Southeast-Asia, Guy Hunter.

Abstract/Sommario: introduction - Mathematical background - Theory of the simplex method - Detailed development and computational aspects - further discussion of the simplex method - Resolution of the degeneracy problem the rivised simplex method - Duality theory and its ramifications - Transportation problems - Network flows - Special topics Applications of linear programming to industrial problems - Applications of linear programming to economic theory.

Abstract/Sommario: Introductory survey - The balance of payments - International payments - The international movement of goods, services, unilateral transfers and capital - The theory and analysis of international economics - Foreign economic policies - International economic development.

Abstract/Sommario: Sets - function and limits - differentiation - functions of several variables - maxima and minima of functions - integration - series - differential equations - difference equations - vectors and matrices - probability and distributions - statistical concepts - estimation - testing hypotheses - regression analysis - correlation - game theory.

Abstract/Sommario: J. Poelmans: Consumption forecasts for Belgium - C. Fourgeaud; Les projections de consommation en France - N.Novacco and F. Pilloton: Structural changes in Itali's private consuption expenditues projections for the next years - J.G. Van Beek and H. DdDen Hartog: Consumption in Norway 1930-1970 - R. Bentzel: Future consumption in Sweden - R. Stone, A. Brown and D. A. Rowe: Demand analysis and projection for Britain: 1900-1970; a study in method - G. Gehrig: Gross national product and p ...; [Leggi tutto...] J. Poelmans: Consumption forecasts for Belgium - C. Fourgeaud; Les projections de consommation en France - N.Novacco and F. Pilloton: Structural changes in Itali's private consuption expenditues projections for the next years - J.G. Van Beek and H. DdDen Hartog: Consumption in Norway 1930-1970 - R. Bentzel: Future consumption in Sweden - R. Stone, A. Brown and D. A. Rowe: Demand analysis and projection for Britain: 1900-1970; a study in method - G. Gehrig: Gross national product and private consumption in the Federal republic of Germany in 1960 and 1970 - V. Cao-Pinna: Critiques des methodes de prevision de la consommation et suggestion pratiques - L. M. Goreux: Projections de la domande des produits agricoles en Europe Occidentale en 1970 - H. Linnemann: An attempt at forecasting the demand foe hogher education in the Netherlands - J. poelmans: Evolution de l'alimentation Belge par nature et origine des produits.

Abstract/Sommario: Perspective and plan - basic public goals - government activities - policy formulation - litigation and negotiation - economic analysis in legal proceedings - indicators of competition - defining the market - statistical evidence - summary and recommendations.

Abstract/Sommario: one-seventh of the earth - population backgrounds - land and the economy - mineral resources - river developments - soviet europe - soviet middle asia - siberia - international elations - soviet potentials.

Abstract/Sommario: The problem of international economic instability - Measurement of international economic instability - Instability of international trade since world war II - Instability of foreign trade of individual countries - Statistical analysis of instability of export proceds - Statistical analysis of instability of export proceds ( continued) - Summary and conclusions.

Abstract/Sommario: The study of economics - The cast of characters - Services, Products, and production groups - A first look at macroeconomic relationships - Saving, investment, and capital - Aggregate income: measuring economic activity - The operations of finance - The institutions of finance - Commercial banks and money - Federal reserve banks, the treasury and money - control of the money supply - Changes in the level of economic activity - Macroeconomic relationships in perspective - The role gover ...; [Leggi tutto...] The study of economics - The cast of characters - Services, Products, and production groups - A first look at macroeconomic relationships - Saving, investment, and capital - Aggregate income: measuring economic activity - The operations of finance - The institutions of finance - Commercial banks and money - Federal reserve banks, the treasury and money - control of the money supply - Changes in the level of economic activity - Macroeconomic relationships in perspective - The role government in the level of economic activity - Issues of fiscal policy - The financial system and the level of economic activity - The level of prices - Policy against inflation - economic growth: the aggregate view.

Abstract/Sommario: Basic concepts - Choice of wage system - Worker relations, wages, and productivity - Sharing productivity - Technological changes and wages.

Abstract/Sommario: Measuring international payments - International investment - Liquid capital - Banking institutions - Foreign exchange rates - Exchange rate policy - The farward market - Gold - The money supply and foreign transactions - National income and the balance of payments - International reserves.

Abstract/Sommario: Formulating business problems - one-decision variable optimization model - two-decision variable optimization models - linear systems - multivariate optimization models.

Abstract/Sommario: Capitalism - socialism - communism - fascism - concluding observations.

Abstract/Sommario: The land and peoples in history - Politics and political change - Economic modernization - Social forces and cultural change - Eastern Europe in the communist world - Europe, east and west - American opportunities and dilemmas.

Abstract/Sommario: Roots of the Atlantic economy - Founding the Atlantic economy - Industrializing the Atlantic economy - Integrating the Atlantic economy.

Abstract/Sommario: An explicit scoring system for business cycle indicators - Problems of classification and presentetion - The 1966 list of indicators.

Abstract/Sommario: Issues and alternatives - International liquidity: the present situation - The rueff approach - The triffin approach - The bernstein approach - Exchange of views - The gold-axchange standard and the price of gold - The price of gold and the level of world gold reserves - Gold and reform: other views.

Abstract/Sommario: The elements of purely competitive market price determination - the price elsaticity of demand -arc elasticity of demand and supply - marginal utility and consumer demand - theory of demand : indifferences curves - average, total, and marginal revenue - average, total, and marginal cost - prices and output under pure competition - prices and output under pure monopoly - prices and output under monopolistic competition - prices and output under oligopoly - average, total, and marginal p ...; [Leggi tutto...] The elements of purely competitive market price determination - the price elsaticity of demand -arc elasticity of demand and supply - marginal utility and consumer demand - theory of demand : indifferences curves - average, total, and marginal revenue - average, total, and marginal cost - prices and output under pure competition - prices and output under pure monopoly - prices and output under monopolistic competition - prices and output under oligopoly - average, total, and marginal product - isoquants andthe production function - the firm as buyer of inputs and seller of outputs - post-postprandium.

Abstract/Sommario: Some fundamentals of supply and demand analysis - consumer demand theory - marginal utility analysis - consumer demand theory, indifference curve analysis - additional topics in demand theory - the theory of production - the costs of production - competition - pure monopoly - other market structures - pricing of factors of production - general equilibrium analysis.

Abstract/Sommario: the challenge in development planning - the challenge in developing human resources - the challenge in developing human resources - the challenge in developing industry - social and cultural challenges in development.

Abstract/Sommario: the public sector and economic welfare - public sector institutional arrangements and expenditure trends - financing the public sector - economic stabilization, economic growth, and the public sector the public sector and specific economic issues.

Abstract/Sommario: The origins of analytical economics - the contributions of the mercantilists to econopmic analysis - economic analysis during the transition to classicism - the contributions of the physiocrats to economic analysis - the contribution of Adam Smith to economic analysis - the contributions of Thomas Malthus to economic analysis - the contribution of David Ricardo to economic analysis - the contributions of Nassau Senior and John Stuart Mill to economic analysis - classical theory in revi ...; [Leggi tutto...] The origins of analytical economics - the contributions of the mercantilists to econopmic analysis - economic analysis during the transition to classicism - the contributions of the physiocrats to economic analysis - the contribution of Adam Smith to economic analysis - the contributions of Thomas Malthus to economic analysis - the contribution of David Ricardo to economic analysis - the contributions of Nassau Senior and John Stuart Mill to economic analysis - classical theory in review - the contribution of Karl Marx to economic analysis - the forerunners of marginalism - contributions to the marginal utility theory of value - contributions to the theory of distriubution - contributions to the theory of capital, interest, and proce level - the contributions of Alfred Marshall to economic analysis - contemporary contributions to the theory of nonperfect competition - contemporary contributions to the thyeory of optimal behavior and welfare economics - the contribution of John Maynard Keynes and some leading followers - contemporary contributions to the theory of economic growth and fluctuation - epilogue : some reflections of economic theory and its methodology.

Abstract/Sommario: Long-term shifts in the personal income structure - Cycles in personal income and business activity - Cycles in major types of income - Cycles in tupes of norfam labor income - Cycles in types of property income - Cyclical amplitudes in personal income by size of income - Government offsets to cyclical losses in personal income.

Abstract/Sommario: The heritage of a century - from euphoria to disillusionment - the structure and problems of bureaucracy - the dilemma of financial insufficiency - the structure of political trade unionism - the CGIL challenge to free labor - the struggle for supremacy - the prospects for democratic trade unionism.

Abstract/Sommario: Biographica sketch - early economic writings - James Mill and David Ricardo - James Mill on scope and method - James Mill and India.

Abstract/Sommario: Introduction - chapter - appendixes.

Abstract/Sommario: Capital power - the technostructure -the entrepreneur and the technostructure - a digression of socialism - the approved contradiction - the general theory of motivation - motivation in perspective - the principle of consistency the goals of industrial system.

Abstract/Sommario: The effects of institutions on fiscal choice - the choice among fiscal institutions.

Abstract/Sommario: Prologue : the impact of eruopean ideas in the world - the course of empire - exodus - europe - the diffusion of european technology - the conquest of distance - the changing pattern of trade - epilogue.

Abstract/Sommario: A collection of aggregative economic forecasts - measurement and presentation of basic data - short-run variations in forecasters' performance - summary mesaures and types of error - time span of forecasts and predictive accuracy - yardsticks of predictive performance - comparative advantages of types of forecasts - related studies and plans.

Abstract/Sommario: International trade - The balance of payments.

Abstract/Sommario: The role of money in national economic policy - The federal reserve's modus operandi - Tactis and targets of monetary policy - A neo-keynesian view of monetary policy - Some rules for the conduct of monetary policy.