
The Stationary Economy
J. E. Meade(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 15. November 2017
Book
Hardback
236 pages
978-1-138-52471-2 (ISBN)
Description
J. E. Meade is among the most distinguished of contemporary economists, noted for his contributions to economic theory and policy. This volume presents a series of models of economic systems, each built on greatly simplified assumptions about human motives, technology, and social institutions, and undertakes in each case a series of exercises to examine the links of causal relationship in each case.This systematic treatment of the whole field of economic analysis on these lines is a rigorous and elegant non-mathematical statement of the basic principles and problems of contemporary economic theory. The volume is based on models of systems in which there are no capital goods, and in which consumer's tastes, technical knowledge, and the size and composition of the population are static.This sophisticated restatement of the fundamentals of economic theory also deals with the basic methodological problems of economic analysis. Given the complexity of variables inherent in all economic systems, how is the economist to proceed in dealing with a particular set of interrelated problems? And further, how can the economist be confident that the verdict is more likely to be right than wrong? Meade considers these and other questions in a book important not only to professional economists and their students, but also to those more generally interested in economic policy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
501 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-52471-2 (9781138524712)
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Content
Introduction; I: Ten Assumptions; II: Consumers' Choice; III: The Market for Consumption Goods; IV: The Terms of Trade; V: Constant Costs; VI: Increasing Costs (i) Comparative Advantages; VII: Increasing Costs (ii) A Fixed Factor; VIII: Increasing Costs (iii) Differences in Factor Proportions; IX: Many Factors and Many Products; X: Changes in Technical Knowledge and in Factor Supplies; XI: Fixed Technical Co-Efficients; XII: Economic Efficiency and the Distribution of Income; XIII: The Centrally Planned Economy (i) the Organization of Consumption; XIV: The Centrally Planned Economy (ii) the Organization of Production; XV: The Centrally Planned Economy (iii) The Deployment of Labour-Conclusion