Selected Essays on Economic Policy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333946329)

This volume contains classic essays on economic policy written by one of its great exponents. The opening essay traces the author's evolving structures of thought about economics and the policy proposals that came from them over this period. Section 2 contains essays which set the background to the policy recommendations. In section 3 the role of investment incentives is analysed. Section 4 is concerned with the influence of accounting conventions on private decision-making and government policy in both capitalist and planned economies. Section 5 contains a number of package deals, all designed to fit within the constraint of the philosophy of governments in power. The last section, general essays, ranges from a scheme for the payment of prisoners to the celebration of the views on policy of great economists, from Colin Clark, through Nicky Kaldor to John Cornwall.

Author: G. Harcourt
ISBN-10: 0333946324
ISBN-13: 9780333946329
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/26/2001
Pages: 354
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 8.94h x 5.88w x 1.12d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 84