1st Edition

Planning and Economic Growth

By A.K. Das-Gupta Copyright 1965
186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

Planning and Economic Growth (1965) is an analysis of the problem of unemployment in an over-populated, under-developed economy, and of the relation of investment to employment. It goes on to look at the effect of planned economic development on relative prices, in terms of intersectoral expenditure flows, as well as dealing with certain international aspects of economic growth, with special... Read more

Part 1. Growth and Employment  1. Tendencies in Economic Theory  2. Keynesian Economics and Under-developed Countries  3. On the Assumption of Unlimited Supply of Labour  4. Disguised Unemployment and Economic Development  5. Capital and Employment  6. Reflections on ‘Take-off’  7. Approach to India’s Third Five Year Plan  8. Introduction to the Third Plan  9. A Plea for a Bolder Plan  10. Thoughts on Public Finance  Part 2. Relative Prices  11. The Use of Curves in the Analysis of Market Price  12. The Theory of Black Market Prices  13. Planned Economic Development and Relative Prices  14. The Choice of Technique  Part 3. Foreign Balance  15. International Economic Imbalance  16. The Relation of Foreign Aid to Home Investment  17. Foreign Balance in a Developing Economy  18. Commercial Policy and Economic Growth  Part 4. Teaching Economics  19. The Teaching of Economics  20. The Economic Adviser  21. Over-full Employment in the Economists’ Sector  22. A Centre for Theoretical Economics  23. Economists and the Government  24. Why Lament for Economics?  25. Reflections on Higher Education in the Light of the Robbins Report

Biography

A.K. Das-Gupta