Frontmatter -- THE CONTRIBUTORS -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- 1 INTRODUCTION / Mason, Edward S. -- 2 THE MODERN CORPORATION AND THE RULE OF LAW / Chayes, Abram -- 3 to whom and for what ends is corporate management responsible? / Rostow, Eugene V. -- 4 the corporation and economic federalism /...

1. Growth of development economics -- 2. Development and planning -- 3. Income distribution and regional development -- 4. Development and international trade -- 5. Cost-benefit analysis -- 6. Labour productivity : international differences and short-run behaviour -- 7. Value theory.

This paper analyses the usefulness as a policy tool of a physical index of radiative forcing of a greenhouse gas, the Global Warming Potential (GWP), as proposed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It is shown that the economic opportunity costs of an increment in radiative forcing...

Policies under consideration within the Climate Convention would impose CO2 controls on only a subset of nations. A model of economic growth and emissions, coupled to an analysis of the climate system, is used to explore the consequences of a sample proposal of this type. The results show how...