2009 Aldine Transaction

What have the social sciences to show for decades of systematic investigation of the problems of economic development? What basic problems have they solved and what remains to be done in the development of viable ...

2009 Aldine Transaction

In this sequel to his widely praised classic study of "The Stationary Economy", Nobel Prize winning economist J. E. Meade continues his systematic treatment of the entire field of economic analysis. He uses a series ...

2008 Aldine Transaction

Emphasizing careful, lucid explanation rather than the lavish use of cryptic graphs and mathematics, and combining the rigor of statement of the best American theoretical work with the extraordinary clarity of the best English scientific ...

2008 Aldine Transaction

There is no book currently available that gives a comprehensive treatment of the design, construction, and use of index numbers. However, there is a pressing need for one in view of the increasing and more ...

2008 Aldine Transaction

The most comprehensive and contemporary source available on socialist economic systems, this book employs economic data from eight East European countries and Russia to provide readers with a thorough, accurate picture of formerly communist economies. ...

2007 Aldine Transaction

2007 Aldine Transaction

This book deals with economic theory, not methodology. It does employ certain methodological resolutions. These resolutions and the limitations they impose on the nature and the scope of the analysis are reviewed. The first resolution ...

2007 Aldine Transaction

Even though our society subtly discourages the verbal expression of emotions, most of us, in ostensibly conforming to our roles, nevertheless manage to express likes, dislikes, status differences, personalities, as well as weaknesses in nonverbal ...

2007 Aldine Transaction

This is the first book to develop a formal theory of supply by bureaus. Niskanen develops an original and comprehensive theory of the behavior of bureaus with the institutions of representative government. He challenges the ...

2007 Aldine Transaction

The long paper which gives the title to this collection and which has never before been published as paperback was initially an attempt to promote international academic understanding. The Economics Department at the London School ...

2007 Aldine Transaction

A tour de force of theoretical reasoning, this book presents the most advanced analytical model of the bargaining process so far conceived. Focused essentially on the dynamics of the bargaining process, Coddington's model employs elements ...

2007 Aldine Transaction

Martin Bronfenbrenner in the "Journal of Finance" had this to say when the book was first released "A thoughtful, scholarly, and systematic treatise on the economics of inflation. If this reviewer were asked to hang ...

2007 Aldine Transaction

An original and systematic synthesis of the major post war developments in theory and policy of balance-of-payments adjustment, this book focuses on the present-day system of pegged but adjustable exchange rates and the problems that ...

2007 Aldine Transaction

This book brings together for the first time in a single volume a complete survey of the theoretical foundations of economic aid policies and a critical analysis of aid programs and practices. The book focuses ...

2006 Aldine Transaction

This is a new kind of textbook in microeconomic theory. In place of the usual concentration on partial equilibrium analysis and discussion of a standard series of topics, the authors seek to introduce the student ...

2006 Aldine Transaction

This is a well-grounded restatement, defense, and development of the theory of income distribution in both its micro- and macro-economic aspects. The author, an authority in the field who has spent many years developing the ...

2006 Aldine Transaction

Macroeconomics is an outgrwth from the mainstream of classical monetary theory following Keynes. Keynes changed the emphasis from the determination of the level of money prices to the determination of the level of output and ...

2006 Aldine Transaction

This classic set of essays by Nobel Laureate and leading monetary theorist Milton Friedman presents a coherent view of the role of money, focusing on specific topics related to the empirical analysis of monetary phenomena ...

2006 Aldine Transaction

"Economics has always been partly a vehicle" for the ruling ideology of each period as well as partly a method of scientific investigation. It limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other ...

2006 Aldine Transaction

Social accounting grew up as a result of the desire to bring together in a meaningful and comprehensive manner all the available observed facts on the economic and financial activity of a nation. Three social ...