Economic theory, welfare and the State :  essays in honour of John C. Weldon / 
edited by Athanasios Asimakopulos, Robert D. Cairns and Christopher Green. 
 - Montreal :  McGill-Queen's University Press,  (c)1990. 
 - 1 online resource (xix, 268 pages) :  illustrations, portrait. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>John C. Weldon (1922-87): an appreciation by Christopher Green --  The publications of John C. Weldon --  Introduction /  Economics: the trunk and the branches /  The rise and fall of the public sector in the estimation of the economists /  Group self interest: the positive analysis of cooperative behaviour /  Probability and rationality in economics /  On the publicness of fiat money /  Robert D. Cairns --  Kenneth E. Boulding --  Dan Usher --  Gideon Rosenbluth --  Robin Rowley --  Thomas K. Rymes -- The role of information in trade theory /  Metzler's tariff paradox and the transfer problem /  On models of the wheat boom in Canadian economic history /  Can we avoid another Great Depression? /  The rise of unemployment since the 1950s /  Public pensions: a social response or a misuse of individual saving? /  Intergenerational redistribution /  Pension reform and elderly women: some evidence for Ontario urban centres /  Murray C. Kemp and Shigemi Yabuuchi --  John S. Chipman --  John H. Dales --  Clarence Lyle Barber --  David Schwartzman --  Louis Ascah and Athanasios Asimakopulos --  Peter Howitt --  John Burbidge. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780773563032 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Macroeconomics.<br/>Welfare economics.<br/>Economic policy.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HB171  / .E266 1990