Economics of development : empirical investigations. /
Yotopoulos, Pan A.
Economics of development : empirical investigations. / Pan A. Yotopoulos, Jeffrey B. Nugent. - New York: Harper & Row, 1976. - xxiii, 478 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Includes indexes.
Bibliography: p. 431-457.
Contents: 1. Introduction: The record of economic development and the disillusionment with development economics -- An excursion into methodology -- Some refractory hypotheses of economic development -- 2. Development statics: The analysis of production -- The study of efficiency: what can we learn from the production function -- Production function and profit function: the measurement of relative economic efficiency -- The macroeconomics of efficiency -- 3. Development dynamics: Response to incentives -- Technological change -- Savings and capital formation -- Human capital -- Employment, unemployment and labor surplus -- 4. Development disequilibrium: sectoral articulation and structure: Migration -- Income distribution, poverty and dualism -- Interactions between agriculture and nonagricultural -- The morphology of growth -- 5. Development disequilibrium: International trade and growth: Trade dependence and export composition -- Export instability and terms of trade -- Economic integration with special reference to customs unions -- 6. Development disequilibrium: planning: Microplanning: project appraisal -- Planning for economic development -- Postscript
0060473290
75038733
Economic development.
HD82.Y58
338.9
Economics of development : empirical investigations. / Pan A. Yotopoulos, Jeffrey B. Nugent. - New York: Harper & Row, 1976. - xxiii, 478 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Includes indexes.
Bibliography: p. 431-457.
Contents: 1. Introduction: The record of economic development and the disillusionment with development economics -- An excursion into methodology -- Some refractory hypotheses of economic development -- 2. Development statics: The analysis of production -- The study of efficiency: what can we learn from the production function -- Production function and profit function: the measurement of relative economic efficiency -- The macroeconomics of efficiency -- 3. Development dynamics: Response to incentives -- Technological change -- Savings and capital formation -- Human capital -- Employment, unemployment and labor surplus -- 4. Development disequilibrium: sectoral articulation and structure: Migration -- Income distribution, poverty and dualism -- Interactions between agriculture and nonagricultural -- The morphology of growth -- 5. Development disequilibrium: International trade and growth: Trade dependence and export composition -- Export instability and terms of trade -- Economic integration with special reference to customs unions -- 6. Development disequilibrium: planning: Microplanning: project appraisal -- Planning for economic development -- Postscript
0060473290
75038733
Economic development.
HD82.Y58
338.9