Economic theory, welfare and the State : essays in honour of John C. Weldon
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Economic theory, welfare and the State : essays in honour of John C. Weldon
Macmillan, 1990
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Jack Weldon had a deep and abiding interest in economic, social, and political problems. This collection of papers, written to honour his memory by a former teacher, his fellow students, colleagues and former students, gives some idea of a wide range of his professional interests. It is this interests that provide a unifying theme to the papers in this collection. During the last 12 years of his life, Weldon concentrated on the history of economic thought, and at the time of his death he was beginning to edit for publication over 2000 pages of lecture notes he had prepared; the papers by Boulding (from whom, incidentally, Weldon took a course in the history of economic thought), and Usher deal with this area. Rosenbluth's paper, examines possible areas of conflict between group interests, and individual self-interest. The paper by Dales presents a blend of economic history and economic theory that sheds a critical light on the Canadian government's policy of settling the prairies with the provision of land grants. Rowley's critical analysis of rational expectations models and their use in econometrics, is one in a series of papers that Weldon followed with great interest.
Rymes's paper, with its examination of the reason why money should be treated as a public good, is a development of an approach to money avocated by Weldon. Two papers, one by Barber and the other by Schwartzman deal with the problem of maintaining satisfactory levels of employment - a constant theme in Weldon's writings and comments on public policy. The two contributors to international trade theory by Chipman, and Kemp and Yabuuchi are examples of economic theory that provide useful insights on practical matters. There are three papers, by Ascah and Asimakopulos, Burbidge, and Howitt, that examine aspects of public pensions, one of Weldon's research interests.
Table of Contents
- John C. Weldon 1922-87 - Introduction, Robert D. Cairns
- economics - the trunk and the branches, Kenneth E. Boulding
- the rise and fall of the public sector in the estimation of the economists, Dan Usher
- group self-interest - the positive analysis of cooperative behaviour, Gideon Rosenbluth
- probability and rationality in economics, Robin Rowley
- on the publicness of Fiat money, Thomas K. Rymes
- the role of information in trade theory, Murray C. Kemp and Shigemi Yabuuchi
- Metzler's tariff paradox and the transfer problem, John S. Chipman
- on the models of the wheat boom in Canadian economic history, John H. Dales
- can we avoid another great depression?, Clarence Lyle Barber
- the rise of unemployment since the 1950s, David Schwartzman
- public pensions - a social response or a misuse of individual saving?, Louis Ascah and A. Asimakopulos
- intergenerational redistribution, Peter Howitt
- pension reform and elderly women - some evidence for Ontario urban centres, John Burbidge.
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