Name: The World of Economics
ISBN: 978-1-349-21315-3

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Editors:

John Eatwell,
Murray Milgate,
Peter Newman

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Table of contents (100 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xi

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Agricultural Growth and Population Change
- E. Boserup
Pages 1-14
Bribery
- Susan Rose-Ackerman
Pages 15-19
Bubbles
- Charles P. Kindleberger
Pages 20-22
Burden of the Debt
- Robert Eisner
Pages 23-26
Bureaucracy
- Mancur Olson
Pages 27-34
Capital Gains and Losses
- E. Malinvaud
Pages 35-39
Chicago School
- M. W. Reder
Pages 40-50
Coase Theorem
- Robert D. Cooter
Pages 51-57
Cobweb Theorem
- B. Peter Pashigian
Pages 58-61
Codetermination and Profit-sharing
- D. M. Nuti
Pages 62-73
Common Law
- P. S. Atiyah
Pages 74-82
Common Property Rights
- Steven N. S. Cheung
Pages 83-86
Communications
- Roger G. Noll
Pages 87-98
Comparative Advantage
- Ronald Findlay
Pages 99-107
Competition and Selection
- Sidney G. Winter
Pages 108-116
Conflict and Settlement
- Jack Hirshleifer
Pages 117-125
Congestion
- A. A. Walters
Pages 126-133
Constitutional Economics
- James M. Buchanan
Pages 134-142
Continuity in Economic History
- Donald N. McCloskey
Pages 143-148

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About this book

What are the central questions of economics and how do economists tackle them? This book aims to answer these questions in 100 essays, written by economists and selected from "The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics". It shows how economists deal with issues ranging from trade to taxation.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: The World of Economics
Editors: John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, Peter Newman
Series Title: The New Palgrave
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21315-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1991
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-55177-6Published: 13 May 1991
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-21315-3Published: 13 May 1991
Series ISSN: 2946-9805
Series E-ISSN: 2946-9813
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 755
Topics: Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Economics, general

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