Author: Arthur Smithies Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The bulk of the papers relates to the period of Smithies' tenure as Professor of Economics at Harvard. Contains correspondence; manuscripts of reports, lectures, and other presentations given publicly on a wide range of topics in political economy, such as domestic planning and development, foreign policy initiatives, and public administration; unpublished manuscript of western economic development policy; materials relating to confidential research and contractual work for private and governmental agencies. Related publications and reference material available in repository. For information on component parts of collection, see Harvard Archives LOCATION below.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 596
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Selected papers by a Committee of The American Economic Association. Useful papers of interest for those doing research or teaching in public finance. This volume attempts not only to cover the field of fiscal policy but to show how doctrine on the subject has evolved over the past generation.
Author: Robert Loring Allen Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351501526 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 375
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"The author puts this book in the best possible context by referring to the ""magisterial and paradoxical Dr. Schumpeter"". A figure in a rare class with John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich von Hayek, and Alfred Marshall, the work of Joseph Schumpeter is equalled only in monumental significance by his personal trials and tribulations. The work is divided into two volumes - the first covering his career in Europe and the second his life and achievements in America.Walt Rostow, in his Foreword, sums up Robert Loring Allen's achievement in biography and intellectual history thus: ""In dealing with Schumpeter's life, Allen exhibits a rare consciousness of the extraordinary complexity and only limited penetrability of the human personality Schumpeter's closely interwoven personal and professional life unfolds, Allen develops without dogmatism a pattern of linkages for the reader to contemplate. In a splendid final passage, he provides a memorable summation.""What makes this enormous effort so successful is the linkage of the personal and the professional, the biographical with the intellectual. Indeed, it is Schumpeter's single-minded determination to explain within a single, formal theory, the dynamics of capitalism that bridges the gap in space, time, and personality. To his books The Theory of Economic Development, and Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, both published by Transaction, is now added the specific contexts in which these and his other works were written.The author of this biography, like the subject himself, is a masterful student of the craft of economics, and its place within the larger social science contexts that Schumpeter worked. In this work, we are introduced into the main current of European and American social science alike. The title of the book, Opening Doors, derives from Schumpeter's life long aim to appeal to inquiring minds to move through such doors in an effort to create the social science of the"
Author: C. Read Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230349447 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 227
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Read addresses the contributions of significant individuals to our understanding of financial decisions and markets. Great financial theorists created the basis for what we now know as personal finance and this volume describes four great minds in finance that forever established the role of the rate of return and life cycle decision-making.
Author: Arthur Smithies
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Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
Author: American Economic Association. Annual Meeting
Author: Robert Loring Allen
Author: University of Michigan. Mental Health Research Institute
Author: American Economic Association
Author: Samiran Banerjee
Author: C. Read