TY - BOOK AU - Yotopoulos,Pan A. AU - Nugent,Jeffrey B. TI - Economics of development : empirical investigations. SN - 0060473290 AV - HD82.Y58 U1 - 338.9 PY - 1976/// CY - New York PB - Harper & Row KW - Economic development N1 - 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 ER -