The Evaluation of National Income in an Imperfect Economy
In this paper, I shall discuss how national income should be measured in an 'imperfect' economy, where feasible policy instruments such as taxes, tariffs, quotas, and quantitative controls do not operate in a lumpsum manner, and may be far from their optimum level. In particular, I want to exarqine the meaning of liational income, and its parts, when they are measured in terms of 'world prices'; or, more precisely and more generally, in terms of the accounting prices that might be computed as a guide to particular production decisions, in the public sector and elsewhere. I have found this set of questions confusing, and it may be that others do too, and will welcome an attempt at clarification.
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1969
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Authors: | MIRRLEES, JAMES A. |
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The Pakistan Development Review. - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics. - Vol. 9.1969, 1, p. 1-13
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Pakistan Institute of Development Economics |
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