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Production and economic dynamics

Title: Production and economic dynamics / edited by Michael Landesmann and Roberto Scazzieri.
Publication: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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xvi, 357 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This volume is inspired by recent developments in two strands of economic theorising. The first one consists of various lines of research on structural economic dynamics that are based principally on three sources: John Hicks's preliminary work on traverse analysis, Luigi Pasinetti's on disproportional growth and Richard M. Goodwin's on methods of dynamic decomposition and economic fluctuations.
The other strand goes back to Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen's interest in an organisational theory of production based upon the interrelationship between tasks, fund factors and material transformations.
This volume proposes a new approach in the analysis structural dynamics, in which a comprehensive view of the dynamics of the whole economic system is associated with the decomposition of the latter into subunits (such as processes, industries, vertically integrated sectors, eigensectors) in order to represent the disaggregated dynamics of structural adaptation and compositional change.
On the other hand, a detailed representation of micro-organisational features leads to the analysis of networks and networking processes within and amongst such subunits. In both cases, methods of decomposition feature prominently and play a critical role in the analytical representation of structural dynamics.

Subject

Production (Economic theory)

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Contents

Introduction: Production and economic dynamics / Michael Landesmann and Roberto Scazzieri -- 1. Traverse analysis in a neo-Austrian framework / Bernard Belloc -- 2. Vertical integration, the temporal structure of production processes and transition between techniques / Salvatore Baldone -- 3. Production and efficiency with global technologies / Alberto Quadrio-Curzio, Carlo Felice Manara and Mario Faliva -- App. 1. The existence of solutions for aggregated and disaggregated cases / Carlo Felice Manara -- App. 2. The differentiation of the maximal eigenvalue and of the associated right-hand eigenvector / Mario Faliva -- 4. Efficient traverses and bottlenecks: a structural approach / Christian Gehrke and Harald Hagemann -- 5. Structural change and macroeconomic stability in disaggregated models / Richard Goodwin and Michael Landesmann -- 6. The production process: description and analysis / Michael Landesmann and Roberto Scazzieri --
7. Agricultural forms of production organisation / Alessandro Romagnoli -- 8. Forms of production organisation: the case of manufacturing processes / Michael Landesmann and Roberto Scazzieri -- 9. Coordination of production processes, subsystem dynamics and structural change / Michael Landesmann and Roberto Scazzieri.

ISBN

0521462517

LCCN

95039212

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Columbia University Libraries