Selected Essays on Economic Policy

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
‘The End of a Perfect Day’: ‘Horses for Courses’ and Policy Proposals....Pages 3-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Theoretical Controversy and Social Significance: An Evaluation of the Cambridge Controversies....Pages 23-47
Eric Russell, 1921–77: A Great Australian Political Economist....Pages 48-65
On Theories and Policies....Pages 66-80
The Mixed Economy....Pages 81-95
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Investment Allowances for Primary Producers....Pages 99-107
Taxation and Business Surplus....Pages 108-112
Investment and Initial Allowances as Fiscal Devices....Pages 113-119
Investment-Decision Criteria, Investment Incentives and the Choice of Technique....Pages 120-143
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
The Quantitative Effect of Basing Company Taxation on Replacement Costs....Pages 147-166
Incomes Policy and the Measurement of Profits....Pages 167-172
The Measurement of the Rate of Profit and the Bonus Scheme for Managers in the Soviet Union....Pages 173-179
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
The Social Consequences of Inflation....Pages 183-199
Policy and Responses for Australia....Pages 200-210
Making Socialism in Your Own Country....Pages 211-231
Markets, Madness and a Middle: Way....Pages 232-246
Macroeconomic Policy for Australia in the 1990s....Pages 247-254
A ‘Modest Proposal’ for Taming Speculators and Putting the World on Course to Prosperity....Pages 255-262
Pay Policy, Accumulation and Productivity....Pages 263-275
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
The Payment of Prisoners....Pages 279-283
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
Notes on the Social Limits to Growth....Pages 284-292
University Ideals and the Market....Pages 293-307
Economic Theory and Economic Policy: Two Views....Pages 308-330
The Vital Contributions of John Cornwall to Economic Theory and Policy: A Tribute from Two Admiring Friends on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday....Pages 331-346
Back Matter....Pages 347-354