In this lecture we have traversed the history, theory and econometrics of business cycles with the aim of making some suggestions about what should appear in any guide book.

Following their contribution to the debate on public utility, peak load, and electricity pricing, M.A. Crew and P.R. Kleindorfer published a note giving a set of conditions for efficient allocation of desired outputs, over n subperiods, among m plants, having constant average running and...

This article shows that partial price stabilisation is superior to complete price stabilisation in stabilising national export earnings in virtually all situations and is more likely to stabilise national than world export earnings, in contrast to the findings of an earlier study. It also shows...