The future of economics /
edtied by John D. Hey
- Oxford ; Cambridge : Blackwell Publishers, 1992
- vii, 162 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Toward a newer economics : the future lies ahead! / William J. Baumol -- Economics beyond the horizon / Jagdish Bhagwati -- Economics in the post-socialist century / James M. Buchanan -- Nutrition, non-convexities and redistributive policies / Partha Dasgupta -- Decision theory : the next 100 years? / Peter C. Fishburn -- Old wine in new bottles / Milton Friedman -- Economics in the century ahead / John K. Galbraith -- The next hundred years / Frank Hahn -- Econometrics : retrospect and prospect / Jack Johnston -- Economics and business / John A. Kay -- The next fifty years / E. Malinvaud -- General equilibrium theory in the twenty-first century / Michio Morishima -- Progress and microeconomic data / Andrew J. Oswald -- Prospects for economics / John Pencavel -- Economics in 2090 : the views of an experimentalist / Charles R. Plott -- The economics of the next century / Austin Robinson. Game theory as a part of empirical economics / Alvin E. Roth -- Continuity and change in the economics industry / Richard Schmalensee -- The determinants of growth / Nicholas Stern -- Another century of economic science / Joseph E. Stiglitz -- The next hundred years / Stephen J. Turnovsky -- The black box / Jack Wiseman.
This collection of essays is a wide-ranging review of the state of economics today and a survey of potential paths of development in the future. The bias is theoretical but there are considerations of such phenomena as the collapse of the Eastern Bloc.
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