Collection and Recollections

Economic Papers and their Provenance
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-19-829524-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 390 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 689 g

Ian Little has been one of the most significant British contributors to economics in the post-war era. His contributions to Welfare Economics and Development Economics have been highly influential and well-regarded throughout the world. This book is a fascinating insight into the personal and intellectual development of Professor Little, containing both the most important articles of his working life and autobiographical chapters.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Little, I. M. D.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I. How I Became an Economist

- Ancestry and Education, 19181948

- Part II. Mostly Welfare Economics

- Welfare Theory

- The Treasury (1953-1955), and the Years 1955-1958

- Papers

- The Foundations of Welfare Economics (1949)

- Conclusions [from A Critique of Welfare Economics, 2nd edn. (1957)]

- Direct versus Indirect Taxes (1951)

- Welfare Criteria, Distribution, and CostBenefit Analysis (1979)

- Social Choice and Individual Values (1952)

- Part III. Development Economics

- Mainly India and Aid

- The OECD: Trade, Industrialization, and Social Cost-Benefit Analysis (1965-1975)

- Korea, Taiwan, and the World Bank (1975-1978)

- Mainly Self-Employment or Semi-Retirement (1978-1997)

- Papers

- The Strategy of Indian Development (1960)

- Public Sector Project Selection in Relation to Indian Development (1969)

- Protection and the Industrialization of Developing Countries (1968)

- The Transnational Corporations: The Economics of International Direct Investment [from Economic Deelopment (1982)]

- Project Appraisal and Planning Twenty Years On (with J. A. Mirrlees) (1991)

- Trade and Industrilization Revisited (1994)

- The Experience and Causes of Rapid Labour-Intensive Development in Korea, Taiwan Province, Hong Kong, and Singapore, and the Possibilities of Emulation (1981)

- Small Manufacturing Enterprises and Employment in Developing Countries (1988)

- Macroeconomic Analysis and the Developing Countries, 1970-1990 (1993)

- India's Economic Reforms, 1991-1996 (1996)

- Part IV. Loose Ends

- Miscellaneous Activities

- Reflections

- Papers

- Fiscal Policy (1952)

- Higgledy Piggledy Growth (1962)

- Distributive Justice and the New International Order (1980)

- Ethics and International Economic Relations (1992)

- References

- Collected Works of I. M. D. Little

Über Autor(innen)

I. M. D. Little is an Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, where he was an Official Fellow from 1952-1971, serving as Professor of the Economics of Underdeveloped Countries from 1971-1975.