Socialism, Capitalism and Economic Growth
Socialism, Capitalism and Economic Growth
Essays Presented to Maurice Dobb
Editor:
C. H. Feinstein
Eric Hobsbawm, Leif Johansen, Robert M. Solow, Amartya K. Sen, R. M. Goodwin, Péter Erdös, A. A. Konüs, Michal Kaleki, O. Kýn, B. Sekerka and L. Hejl, Jan Tinbergen, Ota Šik, Oskar Lange, Kurt W. Rothschild, Joan Robinson, Paul M. Sweezy, Josef Steindl, Theodor Prager, K. N. Raj, Sh. Ya. Turwtsky, Antonio Pesenti, Surendra J. Patel, E. H. Carr, R. H. Hilton, Christopher Hill
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December 1975
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9780521290074
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These essays were written in 1969 to mark the retirement of Maurice Dobb from the Readership in Economics an Cambridge University. The contributors are economists and historians from many parts of the world. The unifying theme, economic growth and planning under socialism and capitalism, was central to the major part of Maurice Dobb's work.
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- Published: December 1975
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780521290074
- Length: 380 pages
- Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 21 mm
- Weight: 0.56kg
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Table of Contents
- Editor's preface
- Maurice Dobb Eric Hobsbawm
- Part I. Problems in the Theory of Economic Growth:
- 1. A classical model of economic growth Leif Johansen
- 2. The interest rate and transition between techniques Robert M. Solow
- 3. Terminal capital and optimum savings Amartya K. Sen
- 4. A growth cycle R. M. Goodwin
- 5. The applications of Marx's model of expanded reproduction to trade cycle theory Péter Erdös
- 6. On the tendency for the rate of profit to fall A. A. Konüs
- Part II. Planning and the Market:
- 1. The curve of production and the evaluation of the efficiency of investment in a socialist economy Michal Kaleki
- 2. A model for the planning of prices O. Kýn, B. Sekerka and L. Hejl
- 4. Some suggestions on a modern theory of the optimum regime Jan Tinbergen
- 5. Socialist market relations and planning Ota Šik
- 6. The computer and the market Oskar Lange
- 7. Socialism, planning, economic growth Kurt W. Rothschild
- 8. Socialist affluence Joan Robinson
- Part III. Problems of Economic Development:
- 1. Obstacles to economic development Paul M. Sweezy
- 2. Capitalism, science and technology Josef Steindl
- 3. On the political compulsions of economic growth Theodor Prager
- 4. Role of the 'machine-tools sector' in economic growth K. N. Raj
- 5. National economy planning and the development of the natural sciences Sh. Ya. Turwtsky
- 6. On the possibility of constructing a model of transition to socialism in Italy Antonio Pesenti
- Part IV. Economic Growth in Historical Perspective:
- 1. World economy in transition (1859–2060) Surendra J. Patel
- 2. Some random reflections on Soviet Industrialization E. H. Carr
- 3. Some problems of urban real property in the Middle Ages R. H. Hilton
- 4. Pottage for freeborn Englishmen: attitudes to wage labour in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Christopher Hill
- Part V: A Bibliography of Works by Maurice Dobb
- Index.
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