Synopses & Reviews
These essays were written in 1969 to mark the retirement of Maurice Dobb from the Readership in Economics an Cambridge University. The contributors are economists and historians from many parts of the world. The unifying theme, economic growth and planning under socialism and capitalism, was central to the major part of Maurice Dobb's work.
Table of Contents
Editor's preface; Maurice Dobb Eric Hobsbawm; Part I. Problems in the Theory of Economic Growth: 1. A classical model of economic growth Leif Johansen; 2. The interest rate and transition between techniques Robert M. Solow; 3. Terminal capital and optimum savings Amartya K. Sen; 4. A growth cycle R. M. Goodwin; 5. The applications of Marx's model of expanded reproduction to trade cycle theory Péter Erdös; 6. On the tendency for the rate of profit to fall A. A. Konüs; Part II. Planning and the Market: 1. The curve of production and the evaluation of the efficiency of investment in a socialist economy Michal Kaleki; 2. A model for the planning of prices O. Kýn, B. Sekerka and L. Hejl; 4. Some suggestions on a modern theory of the optimum regime Jan Tinbergen; 5. Socialist market relations and planning Ota