On Appraising the Performance of an Economic System - What an Economic System Is, Norms Implied in Observers Adverse

Klappentext This book describes and analyses the activities and procedures through which the professional economist may advise on matters of public policy. Zusammenfassung This book describes and analyses the activities and procedures through which the professional economist may advise on matters of public policy! specifically on the performance of an economic system. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The circumstances in which the conceptual problems are posed: legislators deliberating upon how well an economic system is working: 1. Three main concepts that inhere in the circumstances cited; 2. On the peculiarities of economics as a descriptive science; 3. On norms that are implied in observers' adverse reactions to an economic system's performance; Part II. A nation's economy in geographic space and time: on the task of specifying norms of various aspects of it: 4. On constructing a small-scale model of a nation's population of people; 5. A provisional description of a nation's population developing over time while in a state of full employment; 6. Concluding remarks upon what an economic system is, and the problem of specifying norms of the outcome of its working.

Product details

• Authors: Rutledge Vining, Vining Rutledge
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.08.2008
• EAN: 9780521071765
• ISBN: 978-0-521-07176-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management, Economic theory & philosophy, Economic theory and philosophy