Rutledge Vining

On Appraising the Performance of an Economic System

What an Economic System Is, and the Norms Implied in Observers' Adverse Reactions to the Outcome

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes and analyses the activities and procedures through which the professional economist may advise on matters of public policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9780521071765
• ISBN-10: 0521071763
• Artikelnr.: 24725316

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The circumstances in which the conceptual problems are posed:
legislators deliberating upon how well an economic system is working: 1.
Three main concepts that inhere in the circumstances cited; 2. On the
peculiarities of economics as a descriptive science; 3. On norms that are
implied in observers' adverse reactions to an economic system's
performance; Part II. A nation's economy in geographic space and time: on
the task of specifying norms of various aspects of it: 4. On constructing a
small-scale model of a nation's population of people; 5. A provisional
description of a nation's population developing over time while in a state
of full employment; 6. Concluding remarks upon what an economic system is,
and the problem of specifying norms of the outcome of its working.