Format:
1 online resource (511 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415668477
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9781136703447
Series Statement:
Routledge Revivals Series
Content:
First published in 1987, Alfred Marshall: Progress and Politics provides a very detailed insight into Marshall's thoughts on social improvement, adaptive upgrading, policy and polity
Note:
Intro -- Alfred Marshall Progress and Politics -- Copyright -- ALFRED MARSHALL Progress and Politics -- Copyright -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Human Betterment -- 2.1 Want-Satisfaction -- 2.2 Conduct and Character -- (i) Honesty -- (ii) Respect for persons -- (iii) The pursuit of excellence -- (iv) Generosity -- (v) Deliberateness -- 2.3 Change - The Negative Side -- (i) Want-satisfaction -- (ii) The family -- (iii) Speculation -- (iv) Competition -- 3 Growth and Betterment -- 3.1 From Growth to Betterment -- (i) The constants -- (ii) The infrastructure -- (iii) The variables -- 3.2 From Betterment to Growth -- (i) Want-satisfaction -- (ii) Conduct and character -- (iii) Change - the negative side -- 4 Collective Action -- 4.1 Socialism -- 4.2 Market and State -- 4.3 State and Improvement -- 4.4 Co-operation -- (i) Economic efficiency -- (ii) Moral upgrading -- 5 Micro Economic Policy -- 5.1 The Nature of Taxation -- (i) Taxes on income -- (ii) Taxes on wealth -- (iii) Taxes on expenditure -- 5.2 Collective Consumption -- (i) Health and housing -- (ii) Education -- 5.3 The Relief of Poverty -- (i) The minimum wage -- (ii) Income maintenance -- 5.4 Industry and Trade -- (i) Control of monopoly -- (ii) Public ownership -- (iii) The provision of intelligence -- (iv) Trade policy -- 6 Macroeconomic Policy -- 6.1 The Quantity Theory of Money -- (i) The quantity of money -- (ii) The velocity of money -- (iii) Money, velocity and prices -- 6.2 The Transmission Mechanism -- (i) The rate of interest -- (ii) The level of prices -- 6.3 Upswings and Downswings -- (i) The boom -- (ii) The slump -- (iii) Say's law -- 6.4 Stabilisation Policy -- (i) The tabular standard -- (ii) Bimetallism -- (iii) Reserves and exchanges -- 7 Progress, Politics and Economics -- 7.1 The Definition of Economics -- 7.2 Induction and Deduction -- (i) Induction
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(ii) Deduction -- 7.3 Organicism and Economics -- (i) Natura non facit saltum -- (ii) The many in the one, the one in the many -- 7.4 The Mission of the Economist -- Notes and References -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Reisman, David Alfred Marshall: Progress and Politics (Routledge Revivals) Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2011 ISBN 9780415668477
Language:
English
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