Essays in economics : consumption and econometrics

Author(s)

• Tobin, James

Bibliographic Information

Essays in economics : consumption and econometrics

James Tobin

（The papers of James Tobin, v. 2）

MIT Press, 1987

Note

Reprint. Originally published: Amsterdam ; New York : North-Holland, 1975

Includes bibliographies and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Volume 2 of James Tobin's Essays in Economics brings together twenty papers published between 1940 and 1972. These cover macroeconomics, particularly the theory of the relationship between unemployment and inflation and the dilemma their connection poses for policy; consumption function, which is also related to macroeconomic theory and to the theory of individual behavior; consumer theory and statistical method applied to the problem of rationing; and the development and application of econometric methods suitable for the empirical analysis of consumer behavior.James Tobin received the Nobel Prize in 1981 and is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale. Essays in Economics, Volume 1: Macroeconomics and Volume 3: Theory and Policy are both available from The MIT Press.

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Details

• NCID: BA01358841
• ISBN:
  • 0262200643
• LCCN: 87003913
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 492 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC19 : 330.028
  • NDLC : DA43
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Economics
  • LCSH : Macroeconomics
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00649554