The Theory and Experience of Economic Development (eBook, ePUB)

Essays in Honour of Sir Arthur Lewis
Redaktion: Gersovitz, Mark; Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Ranis, Gustav; Diaz-Alejandro, Carlos F.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume, first published in 1982, is a collection of original essays written to honour Professor W. Arthur Lewis, 1979 co-winner of the Nobel Prize in economics. The authors, an international group of distinguished scholars, address a varied set of specific issues reflecting Professor Lewis' research interests, covering topics which include: technological change in agriculture, analyses of unemployment and income distribution, the role of government policy in the development process, the historical record of development, and the relationship between developed and developing nations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136878152
• Artikelnr.: 38276939

Autorenporträt

Mark Gersovitz, Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro, Gustav Ranis, Mark R. Rosenzweig

Inhaltsangabe

1. On Arthur Lewis' Contributions to Economics 2. W. Arthus Lewis: An
Appreciation Part I: The Dual Economy 3. Lewis and the Classicists 4. The
Pattern of Shift of Labour Force from Agriculture, 1950-70 5. Food Price
Inflation, Terms of Trade and Growth 6. Alternative Theories of Wage
Determination and Unemployment: The Efficiency Wage Model 7. Agricultural
Development, Education and Innovation 8. Uncertainty, Information and the
Inflation Tax in Poor Countries Part II: The Open Economy 9. Unequal
Exchange in a Lewis-type World 10: Protection and Growth in a Dual Economy
11. Lessons of Experience under Fixed Exchange Rates 12. Currency Baskets
and Real Effective Exchange Rates 13. Negotiating International Economic
Order Part III: Cost Benefit and Planning 14. General Equilibrium Theory,
Project Evaluation and Economic Development 15. The Economics of Pollution
Control 16. Planning and Dual Values of Linearized Non-linear Problems: A
Gothic Tale Part IV: Economic History and History of Thought 17. Economic
Growth and Stagnation in the United Kingdom before the First World War 18.
The Cyclical Pattern of Long-term Lending 19. Inter-Country Diffusion of
Economic Growth, 1870-1914 20. Latin America in Depression, 1929-39 21.
Indian Industrialisation Before 1945 22. The Rise and Decline of
Development Economics