Research Catalog

Title

Long-run growth, social institutions and living standards / edited by Neri Salvadori, Arrigo Opocher.

Publication

Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Salvadori, Neri
• Opocher, Arrigo.

Description

xviii, 377 p. : ill., charts; 24 cm.

Subject

• Economic development
• Quality of life > Economic aspects
• Labor economics
• Consumption (Economics)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Does economic growth ultimately lead to a 'noble life'? A comparative analysis of the predictions of Mill, Marshall and Keynes -- The debate on education financing in the classical perspective -- The role of the public sector in the thought of Hyman Minsky -- Economic progress and the standard of life: notes on a dynamic approach to needs and consumption -- The need for standards in students' grading -- Education and endogenous growth in the neoclassical tradition -- Education and poverty in a Solow growth model -- Child mortality decline, inequality and economic growth -- Health funding, inequality and economic growth -- Education, change in consumer preferences and growth -- Unemployment in a system of labour-managed firms -- Regulated wage economy and taxation systems: a long-run welfare and growth theoretical analysis and a policy exercise -- Sustainable development and energy trends -- Human needs, sustainable development and public policy: leaning form K.W. Kapp (1910-1976) -- Participatory planning of economic development: the co-evolution of economic theory and policy -- Political and economic interaction: income distribution and economic growth.

ISBN

• 9781848442276 (hbk.)
• 1848442270 (hbk.)

OCLC

316433971

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library