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262 Pages
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Routledge
260 Pages
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Routledge
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Warren Samuels interprets Vilfredo Pareto's Treatise on General Sociology in terms of a general equilibrium model of policy. Three themes and one conviction run throughout the study. The first is a model of policy making involving three sets of variables: power, knowledge, and psychology. The second is a general equilibrium approach to the study of these variables emphasizing their fundamental... Read more
Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Preface, 1. Introduction, 2. Theory of Economic Policy, 3. Pareto's General System, PART ONE: THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF POLICY, 2. Policy as a Function of Knowledge, 3. Policy as a Function of Psychology, 4. Policy as a Function of Power, PART TWO: THE MAKING OF POLICY, 5. Psychology, Knowledge and Power, 6. The Problem of Freedom and Control, 7. The Problem of Continuity and Change, 8. Conclusions: Toward a Positive Theory of Economic Policy, Notes, References, Name index, Subject index
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Samuels, Warren
