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The New Model Economy
Economic Inventions for the Rest of the Century
- 1st Edition - May 20, 2014
- Author: Peter G. Elkan
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 5 7 7 0 - 2
The New Model Economy: Economic Inventions for the Rest of the Century puts forward certain ideas on how the making of economic policy and the instruments used to implement it in… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe New Model Economy: Economic Inventions for the Rest of the Century puts forward certain ideas on how the making of economic policy and the instruments used to implement it in the industrialized Western countries could and should be reformed to overcome the grave difficulties of the present. The book contains a total of nine chapters that falls into two parts. The first part proposes the adoption of a ""participatory"" approach to economic policymaking that could be expected to increase greatly the legitimacy of the economic system. This approach would also render possible the solution of the technical problems in this field. The second part describes several such arrangements that appear practicable. This book will be valuable to both economists and intelligent general public.
Chapter 1 The Emergence of Contending Monopolistic Interest Groups
Chapter 2 Past and Current Styles of Economic Policy-making
Chapter 3 The New Style of Economic Policy-making
Appendix to Chapter 3 Distribution of the National Income and Expenditure in the Largest Western Industrialized Countries
Chapter 4 International Transactions
Chapter 5 The Market and Administration
Chapter 6 The Regulation of Wages and Salaries
Chapter 7 The Regulation of Profits
Chapter 8 The Regulation of Prices
Chapter 9 The Regulation of Imports
Summary
Name Index
Subject Index
- No. of pages: 158
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 20, 2014
- Imprint: Pergamon
- eBook ISBN: 9781483157702
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