Economic Theory, Welfare and the State: Essays in Honour of John C. Weldon

John C. Weldon 1922-87 - Introduction, Robert D. Cairns; economics - the trunk and the branches, Kenneth E. Boulding; the rise and fall of the public sector in the estimation of the economists, Dan Usher; group self-interest - the positive analysis of cooperative behaviour, Gideon Rosenbluth; probability and rationality in economics, Robin Rowley; on the publicness of Fiat money, Thomas K. Rymes; the role of information in trade theory, Murray C. Kemp and Shigemi Yabuuchi; Metzler's tariff paradox and the transfer problem, John S. Chipman; on the models of the wheat boom in Canadian economic history, John H. Dales; can we avoid another great depression?, Clarence Lyle Barber; the rise of unemployment since the 1950s, David Schwartzman; public pensions - a social response or a misuse of individual saving?, Louis Ascah and A. Asimakopulos; intergenerational redistribution, Peter Howitt; pension reform and elderly women - some evidence for Ontario urban centres, John Burbidge.