Main description: Ranking among the most distinguished economists and scholars of his generation, Jacob Viner is best remembered for his work in international economics and in the history of economic thought. Mark Blaug, in his Great Economists Since Keynes (Cambridge, 1985) remarked that Viner...

Main description: Joseph Bowring places the dual economy in a historical context and analyzes the evolution of core and periphery competition. He also refines the dual economy hypothesis and provides strong new empirical support for it.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library...

This book sets forth both a theory and a comparative empirical analysis of stagflation, that peculiar combination of high unemployment, slow growth, and spurts of high inflation bedeviling the advanced industrial nations during the past fifteen years. The authors first construct a small...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 A Theory of Choice under Uncertainty with State-Dependent Preferences -- 2 The Measurement of Risk Aversion -- 3 Risk Aversion with State-Dependent Preferences: Some Economic Applications -- 4 Risk Aversion and the Demand for Life Insurance...

In this lively but profound study, W. David Slawson contends that balancing the government budget will not stop current inflation short of a disastrous depression.Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PART I. SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ECONOMIC OPTIMUM -- 1. A REFORMULATION OF CERTAIN ASPECTS OF WELFARE ECONOMICS -- 2. COLLECTIVE DECISIΟΝ-ΜΑΚIΝG AND SOCIAL WELFARE -- 3. ON SOCIAL WELFARE ONCE MORE ADDENDUM: CONSUMERS' SOVEREIGNTY AND "REAL" INCOME...

In his first book since leaving Washington to return to the University of Minnesota, he describes the emergence of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson as practicing economists, evaluates their economic policies, and sketches the patterns that are being established for the future. He tells how the...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Tables -- I. Level and Variability of Rates of Growth -- II. Growth of Productivity and Nonconventional Costs -- III. Sectoral Shares in Product: A Cross-Section View -- IV. Sectoral Shares in Product: Long-Term Trends -- V. Sectoral Shares in Labor Force: A...