236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
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J. E. Meade is among the most distinguished of contemporary economists, noted for his contributions to economic theory and policy. This volume presents a series of models of economic systems, each built on greatly simplified assumptions about human motives, technology, and social institutions, and undertakes in each case a series of exercises to examine the links of causal relationship in each... Read more
Introduction; I: Ten Assumptions; II: Consumers’ Choice; III: The Market for Consumption Goods; IV: The Terms of Trade; V: Constant Costs; VI: Increasing Costs (i) Comparative Advantages; VII: Increasing Costs (ii) A Fixed Factor; VIII: Increasing Costs (iii) Differences in Factor Proportions; IX: Many Factors and Many Products; X: Changes in Technical Knowledge and in Factor Supplies; XI: Fixed Technical Co-Efficients; XII: Economic Efficiency and the Distribution of Income; XIII: The Centrally Planned Economy (i) the Organization of Consumption; XIV: The Centrally Planned Economy (ii) the Organization of Production; XV: The Centrally Planned Economy (iii) The Deployment of Labour—Conclusion
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J. E. Meade
