Incentives and Economic Systems - Proceedings of Eighth Arne Ryde Symposium, Frostavallen, 26 27

List of contents

List of Contributors Preface Introduction 1. The Formation of Incentive Mechanisms in different Economic Systems 2. Incentives to Share Knowledge and Risk: An Aspect of the Japanese Industrial Organization 3. Labour Incentives and Collective Wage Systems in Soviet Industry 4. Labour Hoarding and Attempts at Labour Saving in the Soviet Economy 5. Soft Options in Central Control 6. Economic Incentives in Soviet Pre-War Economic Thought 7. Chinese Reforms from a Soviet Perspective 8. Market-related Incentives and Food Production in Tanzania: Theory and Experience 9. Kibbutz Efficiency and the Incentive Conundrum 10. The Share Economy: Plausibility and Viability of Weitzman’s Model 11. An Economic Theory of Workfare 12. British Work Incentives and the IR/DHSS Effective Tax System: An Essay Designed to Provoke Discussion 13. ‘Productive’ and ‘Non-Productive’ Economic Activities: A Note on Haavelmo Index

About the author

Stefan Hedlund

Summary

First published in 1987, Incentives and Economic Systems is a selection of papers presented at the Eighth Arne Ryde Symposium at Frostavallen, Sweden on how institutions attempt to guide individual behaviour by manipulating the social and economic incentive system.

Product details

• Authors: Stefan Hedlund, Stefan (Senior Professor of Russian and E Hedlund
• Assisted by: Stefan Hedlund (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781032199184
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3219918-4
• No. of pages: 381
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, Economics of industrial organisation, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Economics of industrial organization