Economic theory, welfare and the State : essays in honour of John C. Weldon / edited by Athanasios Asimakopulos, Robert D. Cairns and Christopher Green.

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Other Authors:	Asimakopulos, A. (Athanasios), 1930-1990, Cairns, Robert D., Green, Christopher, 1937-, Weldon, John C. (John Cathcart), 1922-1987
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1990.
Subjects:	Macroeconomics. Welfare economics. Economic policy. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Theory. Economic policy Macroeconomics Welfare economics Electronic books. Festschriften Festschriften.
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Table of Contents:

John C. Weldon (1922-87): an appreciation by Christopher Green
The publications of John C. Weldon
Introduction / Robert D. Cairns
Economics: the trunk and the branches / Kenneth E. Boulding
The rise and fall of the public sector in the estimation of the economists / Dan Usher
Group self interest: the positive analysis of cooperative behaviour / Gideon Rosenbluth
Probability and rationality in economics / Robin Rowley
On the publicness of fiat money / Thomas K. Rymes.
The role of information in trade theory / Murray C. Kemp and Shigemi Yabuuchi
Metzler's tariff paradox and the transfer problem / John S. Chipman
On models of the wheat boom in Canadian economic history / John H. Dales
Can we avoid another Great Depression? / Clarence Lyle Barber
The rise of unemployment since the 1950s / David Schwartzman
Public pensions: a social response or a misuse of individual saving? / Louis Ascah and Athanasios Asimakopulos
Intergenerational redistribution / Peter Howitt
Pension reform and elderly women: some evidence for Ontario urban centres / John Burbidge.

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