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First Published in 2004. This is the second of three volumes of an edition of Professor Meade's papers. As with the first volume (The Collected Papers of James Meade, Vol. I: Employment and Inflation, 1988), it includes both previously published papers and hitherto unpublished memoranda written during Meade's period of government service, 1940-7, in the Economic Section of the Cabinet Offices, of which he was Director 1946-7.
List of contents
Part I: Price Theory and Policy 1 Notes on the Elasticity of Substitution (1933) 2 Government Intervention in the Post-War Economy (1942)3 Price and Output Policy of State Enterprise: A Symposium (with J. M. Fleming) (1944) 4 Mr Lerner on The Economics of Control (1945) 5 The Socialisation of Industries. Memorandum by the External Economies and Diseconomies in a Competitive Situation (1952) 8 Little’s Critique of Welfare Economics (1959) 9 The Theory of Indicative Planning (1970) 10 The Theory of Labour-Managed Firms and of Profit-Sharing (1972) 11 The Optimal Balance Between Economies of Scale and Variety of Products: An Illustrative Model (1974) 12 Labour-Managed Firms in Conditions of Imperfect Competition (1974) 13 The Adjustment Processes of Labour Co-operatives with Constant Returns to Scale and Perfect Competition (1979) 14 Different Forms of Share Economy .(1986) Part II: Distribution 15 The Post-War Treatment of the National Debt (1945) 16 Next Steps in Domestic Economic Policy (1949) 17 Is the National Debt a Burden? (1958 and 1959) 18 Poverty in the Welfare State (1972) 19 The Inheritance of Inequalities: Some Biological, Demographic, Social, and Economic Factors (1973) Part III: Growth and Development 20 Mauritius: A Case Study in Malthusian Economics (1961) 21 The Effect of Savings on Consumption in a State of Steady Growth (1962) 22 The Adjustment of Savings to Investment in a Growing Economy (1963) 23 The Rate of Profit in a Growing Economy (1963) 24 The Rate of Profit in a Growing Economy (with F. H. Hahn) (1965) 25 Life-Cycle Savings, Inheritance and Economic Growth (1966) 26 Population Explosion, the Standard of Living and Social Conflict (1967)
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Susan Howson University of Toronto
