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Selected Essays on Economic Policy

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  • © 2001

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  1. G. C. Harcourt

    1. Jesus College, Cambridge, UK
      University of Adelaide, Australia

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This volume contains classic essays on economic policy written by one of its great exponents. The opening essay traces the author's evolving structures of thought about economics and the policy proposals that came from them over this period. Section 2 contains essays which set the background to the policy recommendations. In section 3 the role of investment incentives is analysed. Section 4 is concerned with the influence of accounting conventions on private decision-making and government policy in both capitalist and planned economies. Section 5 contains a number of package deals, all designed to fit within the constraint of the philosophy of governments in power. The last section, general essays, ranges from a scheme for the payment of prisoners to the celebration of the views on policy of great economists, from Colin Clark, through Nicky Kaldor to John Cornwall.

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  3. Background to Policy Recommendations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Theoretical Controversy and Social Significance: An Evaluation of the Cambridge Controversies

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      Pages 23-47

    3. Eric Russell, 1921–77: A Great Australian Political Economist

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      Pages 48-65

    4. On Theories and Policies

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      Pages 66-80

    5. The Mixed Economy

      • Prue Kerr
      Pages 81-95

  4. Taxation Reform and Investment Incentives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. Investment Allowances for Primary Producers

      • A. D. Barton
      Pages 99-107

    3. Taxation and Business Surplus

      • J. W. Bennett
      Pages 108-112

    4. Investment and Initial Allowances as Fiscal Devices

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      Pages 113-119

    5. Investment-Decision Criteria, Investment Incentives and the Choice of Technique

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      Pages 120-143

  5. Accounting Conventions and Policy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. The Quantitative Effect of Basing Company Taxation on Replacement Costs

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      Pages 147-166

    3. Incomes Policy and the Measurement of Profits

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      Pages 167-172

    4. The Measurement of the Rate of Profit and the Bonus Scheme for Managers in the Soviet Union

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      Pages 173-179

  6. Package Deals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
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    2. The Social Consequences of Inflation

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      Pages 183-199

    3. Policy and Responses for Australia

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      Pages 200-210
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Jesus College, Cambridge, UK

    G. C. Harcourt

  • University of Adelaide, Australia

    G. C. Harcourt

About the author

G.C. HARCOURT is Emeritus Reader in the History of Economic Theory at the University of Cambridge, Emeritus Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge and Professor Emeritus, University of Adelaide. He is the author, co-author and editor or co-editor of nineteen books, including Some Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital and 2nd edition of The General Theory.

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