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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.