Increasing returns and economic analysis / edited by Kenneth J. Arrow, Yew-Kwang Ng, and Xiaokai Yang.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Description
xxv, 457 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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Notes
  • Selected papers from the International Conference on "Increasing Returns and Economic Analysis" held in September 1995.
  • "First published in Great Britain 1998 by Macmillan Press"--T.p. verso.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
  • Pt. 1. Specialization, Organization and Growth: New Classical Economics. 1. Specialization and Division of Labour: A Survey / Xiaokai Yang and Siang Ng
  • Comment / James M. Buchanan
  • Comment / Jeff Borland. 2. Specialization and the Emergence and the Value of Money / Wenli Cheng. 3. Productivity, Investment in Infrastructure and Population Size: Formalizing the Theory of Ester Boserup / C. Y. Cyrus Chu and Yao-Chou Tsai. 4. The Inframarginal Analysis of Demand and Supply and the Relationship between a Minimum Level of Consumption and the Division of Labour / Monchi Lio. 5. Economies of Specialization and Trade / Siang Ng. 6. Centralized Hierarchy within a Firm and Decentralized Hierarchy in the Market / Heling Shi and Xiaokai Yang. 7. An Analytical Framework of Consumer-Producers, Economies of Specialization and Transaction Costs / Mei Wen. 8. An Extended Ethier Model with the Tradeoff between Economies of Scale and Transaction Costs / Kar-yiu Wong and Xiaokai Yang.
  • 9. Policy Analysis in a Dynamic Model with Endogenous Specialization / Junxi Zhang
  • Pt. 2. Economies of Scale and Monopolistic Competition. 10. Increasing Returns, Constant Returns and Micro-Macro Economics / Robin Marris. 11. Non-Neutrality of Money under Non-Perfect Competition: Why Do Economists Fail to See the Possibility? / Yew-Kwang Ng
  • Comment / Robin Marris. 12. A Dynamic Model of Monopolistic Competition with Trade Externalities and Fiscal Policy / Kee Nam Cheung
  • Comment / Chun-Sin Hwang. 13. Industrialization Policy and the 'Big Push' / Joshua Gans
  • Comment / Philip A. Trostel. 14. Economies of Scale and Imperfect Competition in an Applied General Equilibrium Model of the Australian Economy / Kaludura Abayasiri-Silva and Mark Horridge
  • Comment / Peter B. Dixon. 15. Variety, Spillovers and Market Structure in a Model of Endogenous Technological Change / Pietro F. Peretto.
  • 16. Pursuit of Relative Conspicuous Consumption in Monopolistic Competition / Jianguo Wang and Yew-Kwang Ng. 17. Economic Fluctuations and Non-Neutrality of Money based upon Imperfect Competition / Xiangkang Yin
  • Pt. 3. Information, Trade and Resources. 18. Innovation and Increasing Returns to Scale / Kenneth J. Arrow. 19. Variable Returns to Scale and Factor Price Equalization / Murray C. Kemp, Masayuki Okawa and Makoto Tawada. 20. The Stolper-Samuelson Theorem in Models with Economies of Scale / Peter J. Lloyd and Albert G. Schweinberger
  • Comment / Pasquale M. Sgro. 21. Variable Returns to Scale, Resources and Population / John D. Pitchford.
ISBN
0312177208
LCCN
97021582
OCLC
37011289
RCP
C - S
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