Selected Essays on Economic Policy

This volume contains classic essays on economic policy written by one of its great exponents. The opening essay traces the author's evolving structures of thought about economics and the policy proposals that came from them over this period. Section 2 contains essays which set the background to the policy recommendations. In section 3 the role of investment incentives is analysed. Section 4 is concerned with the influence of accounting conventions on private decision-making and government policy in both capitalist and planned economies. Section 5 contains a number of package deals, all designed to fit within the constraint of the philosophy of governments in power. The last section, general essays, ranges from a scheme for the payment of prisoners to the celebration of the views on policy of great economists, from Colin Clark, through Nicky Kaldor to John Cornwall.

List of contents

Preface Acknowledgements Foreword; M.Panic Introduction Background to Policy Recommendations Taxation Reform and Investment Incentives Accounting Conventions and Policy Package Deals General Essays Index

About the author

G.C. HARCOURT is Emeritus Reader in the History of Economic Theory at the University of Cambridge, Emeritus Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge and Professor Emeritus, University of Adelaide. He is the author, co-author and editor or co-editor of nineteen books, including Some Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital and 2nd edition of The General Theory.

Summary

This volume contains classic essays on economic policy written by one of its great exponents. The last section, general essays, ranges from a scheme for the payment of prisoners to the celebration of the views on policy of great economists, from Colin Clark, through Nicky Kaldor to John Cornwall.

Product details

• Authors: G Harcourt, G. Harcourt
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781349426362
• ISBN: 978-1-349-42636-2
• No. of pages: 354
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 20 mm x 216 mm
• Weight: 467 g
• Illustrations: XVI, 354 p.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; B, Economic Policy, Economic history, Economic theory & philosophy, Economic Theory, Public Administration, Public Policy, Political Economy, Management science, Quantitative Economics, International Political Economy, History of Economic Thought and Methodology, History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, International Political Economy’, economic policy;economics;Government;taxation