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Notes: Modern economics has expanded beyond treating economic institutions as exogenous. This paper applies public choice and modern regulatory theory to the twentiethcentury Roman Catholic Church and attempts to discover why the decision was made in 1966 to absolve Catholics from the requirement that meat not be eaten on most Fridays of the year. We provide a cartel analysis of the institutional backdrop and power structure of the College of Cardinals within the Church. In this framework, self-interest, the geographic production of beef and fish, and the expanded number of voters in the College of Cardinals are the keys to understanding why Pope PAUL VI decided to change the relative price of meat and to alter penance rules in 1966.

Notes: The analysis of general risk-sharing systems shows that profit-sharing represents a special case of the more general systems. General risk-sharing systems are more efficient than profit-sharing systems in that they permit contracting parties to exclude or treat differently certain types of risk, especially those which are endogenous to the firm and its management and therefore subject to moral hazard. Most important, general risk-sharing systems make it possible to exclude the returns from entrepreneurial risk-taking from share arrangements with workers. This feature makes general risk-taking consistent with the efficient operation of dynamic SCHUMPETERian market economies. Risk-sharing systems can also be used to increase the efficiency of contracts between parties other than employers and employees and they are most likely to raise welfare when one of the contracting parties is the government.

Notes: We use spectral analysis to provide evidence that cycles have characterized the following time series: all terrorist events, skyjackings, kidnappings, barricade and hostage-taking, and all events not involving hostages. The series for all events had a periodicity of 28 months, while skyjackings had two significant periodicities - 4.1 months and 28 months. Only a single significant periodicity was associated with barricade and hostage events and kidnappings -72 months and 48 months, respectively. We also found that nonlinear trends best represented four of the five series. Cross-spectral analysis was then applied to the six possible pairs of series; each pair displays from three to nine statistically significant coherencies. Moreover, we discovered evidence of orthogonality for five of the six pairs studied. This evidence suggests that terrorists substitute between related events; this substitution primarily showed up in the short run.

Notes: We consider mathematics to be an input into the production of human and knowledge capital in economics. The competitive and the interest group models are analyzed as to their predictions about the efficient use of this input. Many stylized facts are found to be consistent with the interest group model and the implication of an excess use of mathematics. Mathematics in journal articles is shown to have grown significantly during the postwar years. In a survey, 250 economists express the view that there is too much mathematics in professional journals. Only a minority of respondents rejects the view that interest group behaviour is taking place.

Notes: Book reviewed in this ArticleASCHHOFF, GUNTHER und HENNINGSEN, ECKART: Das deutsche GenossenschaftswesenBHATIA, SHAM L.: Technology, Economies of Scale and Gains from Trade and Factor MobilityCANTO, VICTOR A.: The Determinants and Consequences of Trade Restrictions in the US EconomyETTER, CHRISTIAN: Löhne und Beschäftigung im KonjunkturverlaufFREEMAN, CHRISTOPHER (ed.): Long Waves in the World EconomyGORDON-ASHWORTH, FIONA: International Commodity ControlGREENHALGH, C. A.; LAYARD, P. R. G. and OSWALD, A. J. (eds.): The Causes of UnemploymentHECKMAN, JAMES J. and SINGER, BURTON(eds.): Longitudinal Analysis of Labor Market DataJUDGE, GEORGE E. et al: The Theory and Practice of EconometricsKENNEDY, GAVIN: Einladung zur StatistikKIRSCH, WERNER; SCHOLL, WOLFGANG und PAUL, GÜNTER: Mitbestimmung in der UnternehmenspraxisNIESCHLAG, ROBERT; DICHTL, ERWIN und HÖRSCHGEN, HANS: MarketingSCHENKLUHN, BRIGITTE: Konjunkturpolitik und WahlenSCHULTE ZUR SURLAGE, ROLF: Qualifikationsstruktur der ArbeitsnachfrageŠIK, OTA: Ein Wirtschafssystem der ZukunftTAKAYAMA, AKIRA: Mathematical EconomicsUHLIG, CHRISTIAN und LANGE, MICHAEL: Internutionale Produktionskooperation im Vorderen OrientWATERSON, MICHAEL: Economic Theory of the IndustryWELSCH, HEINZ: Wohlfahrtstheorie und Wirtschaftspolitik natürlicher RessourcenWHALLEY JOHN: Trade Liberalization among Major World Trading Areas

Notes: This note demonstrates that PIERO SRAFFA'S wage-profit frontier can be generalized to take into account the real costs of protecting the environment from waste residuals. As such, it is an exercise in theoretical synthesis which draws upon elements of neo-Ricardian theory and environmental economics.

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Notes: ANCOT, J. P. (ed.): Analysing the Structure of Econometric Models (Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics, Vol. 2), The Hague/Boston/Lancaster: Martinus Nijhoff 1984BIGSTEN, ARNE: Income Distribution and Development. Theory, Evidence, and Policy, London: Heinemann 1983BINSWANGER, HANS P. and ROSENZWEIG, MARK R. (eds.): Contractual Arrangements, Employment, and Wages in Rural Labor Markets in Asia, New Haven/London: Yale University Press 1984BIRDSALL, NANCY etal.: World Development Report 1984, Oxford/Washington D.C.: Oxford University Press/The World Bank 1984BREYER, FRIEDRICH: Die Nachfrage nach medizinischen Leistungen. Eine empirische Analyse von Daten aus der Gesetzlichen Krankenversiche-rung, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York: Springer 1984FEUCHT, MARTIN: Theorie des Konkurrenzsozialismus. Beitrag zu einer Phänomenologie der Wirtschaftssysteme (Schriften zum Vergleich von Wirtschaftsordnungen, Heft 32), Stuttgart/New York: Gustav Fischer 1983FROWEN, STEPHEN F. (ed.): Controlling Industrial Economies. Essays in Honour of Christopher Thomas Saunders, London: MacMillan 1983HANSMANN, KARL-WERNER: Kurzlehrbuch Prognoseverfahren. Mit Aufgaben und Lösungen, Wiesbaden: Gabler 1983HÄUSELMANN, ERICH und PETERS, MATTHIAS: Die Gesundheitsligen in der Schweiz (Schriftenreihe des SKI, Band 25), Aarau: Schweizerisches Krankenhausinstitut SKI 1984HERDZINA, KLAUS: Wettbewerbspolitik (Uni-Taschenbucher 1294), Stuttgart/New York: Gustav Fischer 1984HICKS, JOHN: Classics and Moderns. Collected Essays on Economic Theory, Volume III, Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1983Internationale Energie-Agentur (IEA), Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (OECD): Weltenergieausblick, Baden-Baden: Nomos 1984IPSEN, DIRK: Die Stabilität des Wachstums. Theoretische Kontroversen und empirische Untersuchungen zur Destabilisierung der Nachkriegsentwicklung, Frankfurt/New York: Campus 1983KÖRNER, PETER; MAASS, GERO; SIEBOLD, THOMAS und TETZLAFF, RAINER: Im Teufelskreis der Verschuldung. Der Internationale Währungsfonds und die Dritte Welt, Hamburg: Junius-Verlag 1984KÜSTERS, HANNS JÜRGEN: Die Gründung der Europäischen Wirtschaftsge-meinschaft, Baden-Baden: Nomos 1982MALINVAUD, EDMOND: Essais sur la théorie du chǒmage, Paris: Calmann-Lévy 1983MALINVAUD, EDMOND: Théorie macroéconomique, 1. comportements, croissance; 2. évolutions conjoncturelles, Paris: Dunod 1983MIZOGUCHI, TOSHIYUKI and TAKAYAMA, NORIYUKI: Equity and Poverty under Rapid Economic Growth. The Japanese Experience (The Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Economic Research Series No.21), Tokyo: Kinokuniya Company Ltd. 1984MODI, BUDDISH: Income Patterns and Education, Ahmedabad: Sonal Publishers 1984PECHMAN, JOSEPH A. (ed.): Economics for Policymaking. Selected Essays of Arthur M. Okun, Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press 1983PRACHOWNY, MARTIN F. J.: Macroeconomic Analysis for Small Open Economies, Oxford: Clarendon Press 1984SHONFIELD, ANDREW: In Defence of the Mixed Economy, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1984SIMON, JULIAN L. and KAHN, HERMAN (eds.): The Resourceful Earth. A Response to Global 2000, Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1984STEIN, LESLIE: Trade and Structural Change, London/Canberra: Croom Helm 1984SUZUMURA, KOTARO: Rational Choice, Collective Decisions, and Social Welfare, Cambridge/London/New York: Cambridge University Press 1983

Notes: Austrian business cycle policy was unconventional but rather successful in the last three decades and especially since the oil crisis. The unconventional conception was developed by trial and error, only ex post it got the name Austro-Keynesianism. Nevertheless it has a theoretical basis, a rather radical interpretation of KEYNES, which bases economic instability on a deep-rooted uncertainty of entrepreneurs. According to this interpretation economic policy tried to stabilize the data most important for entrepreneurial decisions, especially wage increase, exchange rates and investment promotion. This lightened the burden of the traditional instruments of stabilization policy. In addition these instruments were assigned differently: Exchange rate policy was primarily used to stabilize prices in the short run, incomes policy to equilibrate the current account in the medium and longer run, fiscal policy to stabilize employment. While the new assignation proved useful for stabilization policy, some structural problems remained unsolved.

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Notes: The newest and most imaginative part of Dr. Bernstein's proposals for a reform of the monetary system consists in a new method of opening reserves by central banks: the reserve unit. The reserve unit is a synthetic currency composed of eleven currencies of the Group of Ten and of Switzerland. The proportions would be fixed by an agreement (probably according to the ratios of the countries concerned at the IMF). Each of these eleven countries would be obliged to hold within its reserves an amount of reserve units which is a constant relation of its assets in gold.The two main advantages of this proposal are:(1)such claims towards rich countries would be accepted by central banks; and(2)the non-existence of any repayment obligation, which would destroy the additional liquidity necessary in order to meet the growing requirements of the international monetary system.The main disadvantages are:(1)the difficulties which would result because of unequal proportions between newly created reserve units and their retention by central banks;This reform would even enhance the inequality and the inflationary potential of the present system as it would go together with an extension of the IMF-ratios, with an automatisation of credit allowances of the Fund, and bilateral swap-agreements would continue, etc.Therefore it would not remove at all the erratic character and the sources of crises of the present system by a creation of new reserves, but would only lend help against deflationary difficulties—but not against inflationary ones—which the new system could promote itself.

Notes: This paper studies the problem of achieving an optimal allocation of land resources in an urban area. In particular, the study is focused on the extent to which decentralized decision-making via a price regime can be relied upon to produce optimal solutions in both simple situations and those characterized by externalities, indivisibilities, and non-convexities. Linear and non-linear programming and non-zerosum gam theory are used in an effort to determine proper institutional arrangements for acceptable solutions and to rationalize a type of zoning constraints. One of the conclusions is that the more complex the situation and the greater the characteristic value of various coalitions, the less the desirability of complete decentralization of decisions and the greater the desirability of a pricing device which operates under certain constraints.

Notes: It is generally admitted (1) that utility theory explains choices between goods with diminishing marginal rates of substitution and (2) that this theory applies in particular to choices between brands of a same good (or, more generally, between differentiated products belonging to the same industry). The author suggests that these two ideas are irreconcilable as the marginal rate of substitution of differentiated products (belonging to the same industry) is constant.A theory based on constant marginal rates of substitution leads to the conclusion that a change in the price of a differentiated product has neither a substitution nor an income effect, if we consider only the demand for products belonging to the same industry. There is only a replacement effect.This implies that the individual demand curve, based on utility theory of the Slutsky-Hicks type, refers to a group of products and not to a particular product in case of differentiation. The concept of an aggregate demand curve for a differentiated market could thus be defended against the criticisms of the Walrasian school. Finally, this leads to the idea that it could be interesting to construct demand curves of the firm, allowance being made for non-convexity in the indifference field. The form of these curves is briefly discussed.〈section xml:id="abs1-2"〉〈title type="main"〉RÉSUMÉUne theorie qui fait appel a un taux marginal de substitution constant, conduit a la conclusion qu'a la suite d'une modification du prix d'un produit diffe-rencie, il n'y a, au sein de I'industrie consideree, ni effet de substitution, ni effet de revenu. II n'y a qu'un effet de remplacement.Ceci implique qu'en cas de differentiation, la courbe de demande individuelle, derivee de la theorie de 1'utilite; de Slutsky et Hicks, se refere au groupe de produits et non a un produit particulier. Le concept d'une courbe de demande glo-bale, relative a un marche differencie, ^chappe done aux critiques de l'ecole Wal-rasienne. II en resulte, enfin, qu'il pourrait etre interessant de construire des courbes de demande de la firme, qui tiendraient compte de l'absence de con-vexite. La forme de ces courbes est brievement discutée.〈section xml:id="abs1-3"〉〈title type="main"〉ZUSAMMENFASSUNGEs wird allgemein angenommen, dass 1. die Wahl zwischen Giitern mit absinken-der Grenzrate der Substitution durch die Nutzwerttheorie erklart wird und dass 2. sich diese Theorie insbesondere auf die Wahl zwischen zwei Marken eines gleichen Gutes (oder, vcrallgemeinernd, zwischen zwei differenzierten Produkten einer gleichen Industrie) abwenden lasst. Der Autor vertritt hierzu die Ansicht, dass diese beiden Thesen miteinander unvereinbar sind, da die Grenzrate der Substitution zwischen zwei Produkten ein und derselben Industriebranche konstant bleibt.Nun führt eine Theorie, die sich auf eine konstante Grenzrate der Substitution stiitzt, zu der Schlussfolgerung, dass, infolge einer Preisveranderung eines differenzierten Produkts, sich innerhalb der in Frage kommenden Industriebranche weder ein Substitutionseffekt, noch ein Einkommenseffekt einstellt. Es kann einzig ein ≪Ersatzeffekt≫ festgestellt werden.Hieraus folgt, dass sich, bei einem Fall von Differenzierung, die von der Nutzwerttheorie von Slutsky und Hicks abgeleitete, individuelle Nachfragekurve auf eine Gruppe von Produkten, nicht aber auf ein Einzelprodukt bezieht. Der Begriff einer globalen Nachfragekurve eines differenzierten Marktes entzieht sich daher den kritischen Uberlegungen der Walras‘schen Schule. Aus oben Erwahntem geht schliesslich auch hervor, dass es sich als interessant erweisen konnte, Firmen-Nachfragekurven zu konstruieren, die das Nichtvorhandensein von Konvexitat in Rechnung ziehen. Die Form solcher Kurven wird kurz be-sprochen.

Notes: It is the purpose of the present paper to replace the traditional theory of industrial stages by a better model based on the criteria of capital and control. In constructing the new model we became aware of the fact it is necessary to distinguish between ‘capital’-intensive and ‘capital’-extensive industries and again within the latter between those which worked for local consumption and for the export trade, respectively. Only for the ‘capital’-extensive industries working for the export trade something like stages in the industrial development can be discovered. In fact, the stage reached in these industries in the eighteenth century brought them organizationally close to the older ‘capital’-intensive industries, so that for that period we subsume both under the head of protofactory. The protofactory of the model based on capital and control shows the essential characteristics of the factory, although in reality there were some elements distinguishing the protofactory from the full-fledged factory.In the second section of the paper we describe in detail the organizational features of the protofactory after clearing up the etymological confusion in that〈section xml:id="abs1-2"〉〈title type="main"〉ZUSAMMENFASSUNGDer Beitrag zielt darauf ab, die traditionelle Theorie der industriellen Stufen durch ein auf den Kriterien ≪Kapital≫ und ≪KontroIle≫ basierendes, besseres Modell zu ersetzen. Beim Aufbau dieses neuen Modells zeigte sich die Notwendig-keit einer Unterscheidung zwischen kapitahntensiven und kapitalextensiven Industrien, welche letztere wiederum unterteilt werden mussen in solche, die fiir den einheimischen Verbrauch arbeiten, und solche, die fiir den Export produ-zieren. Nur fiir die im Export tatigen kapitalextensiven Industrien lasst sich so etwas wie Stadien der industriellen Entwicklung entdecken. In der Tat brachte das Stadium, welches diese Industrien im 18. Jahrhundert erreicht hatten, sie organisatorisch in enge Verbindung zu den alteren, kapitahntensiven Industrien, so dass fiir jene Periode beide unter dem Oberbegriff”Ur-Fabrik” (protofactory) zusammengefasst werden konnen. Das auf ≪Kapital≫ und ≪K.ontrolle≫ aufge-baute Modell der Urfabrik bringt wesentliche Merkmale der Fabrik zum Aus-druck, obwohl sich in Wirklichkeit die Urfabrik von der fliigge gewordenen Fabrik in einigen Punkten unterschied.Im zweiten Teil der Arbeit werden die organisatorischen Grundziige der Urfabrik im Detail beschrieben; zuvor wird die in diesem Bereich herrschende etymologische Verwirrung geklart. Abschliessend wird gezeigt, dass weder der im organisatorischen Aufbau der Industrie tatige Geschaftsmann noch der zeit-genossische Okonom erfasst hatten, was sich vor ihren Augen abspielte. Es brauchte Jahrzehnte, bis der Industrielle die Notwendigkeit regelmassiger Ab-schreibungen erkannte, und der klassische Okonom lehrte noch lange die inverse Korrelation zwischen Lohn und Profit und die Vcrschiebbarkeit des Kapitals von Industrie zu Industrie, nachdem diese beidenfiir das putting-out system typischen Wesensziige mit dem Erscheinen der Urfabrik verschwunden waren.〈section xml:id="abs1-3"〉〈title type="main"〉RÉSUMÉCet article a pour but, de remplacer la théorie traditionelle des stades industriels par un modèle meilleur, basé sur les critères de capital et de contrǒ1e. En construisant ce nouveau modèle, nous nous rendons compte de la nécessité, de distinguer entre industries intensives en capital et celles extensives en capital et ces dernieres de nouveau, en celles qui travaillent pour la consommation interne, et celles qui produisent pour l'exportation. C'est uniquement pour les industries extensives en capital produisant pour l'exportation, qu'on peut d^couvrir des soi-disants stades du developpement industriels.En fait, le stade atteint dans ces industries au dix-huitieme siecle les amenait du point de vue de I'organisation en relation étroite avec les industries plus vieilles et intensives en capital, de facon a ce que pour cette periode, les deux pouvaient ětre résumés sous le terme de ≪protofabrique≫. La protofabrique du modele, basee sur le capital et le contrdle met en relief les principales caracteristiques de l'usine, malgre que la protofabrique se distingue en realite en beaucoup de points de l'usine evoluée.Dans la deuxieme partie de cet article, les elements organisateurs de la protofabrique sont decrits en detail, apres avoir eclairci les confusions etymologiques. Finalement l'auteur montre, que ni le commercant actif dans le developpement organisateur de l'industrie, ni l'economiste classique contemporain ont saisi ce qui se deroulait devant leurs yeux. II a fallu des dixaines d'annees jusqu'a ce que I'industriel reconnaisse Futility d'amortisations regulieres, et l'econome classique enseignait encore longtemps la correlation inverse entre le salaire et le profit et Pajustement du capital d'une industrie a l'autre, malgre que ces deux faits typiques par le “putting-out system”, avaient disparu avec l'apparition de la protofabrique.

Notes: In the Soviet Union there has been for some years a passionate discussion on the improvement of economic planning. It deals particularly with the adaption of planning to the degree of industrialisation which has been achieved within few decades.The Soviet economy can be looked at as a huge entity with many branches and enterprises whose direction is in the hands of the party and of the state. While the party decides the guiding principles, the particular leading functions are fulfilled by organs of the state.The economic administration of the state has been organised in the course of time according to three points of view: Economic sectors, functions and regions.The structure of administration has been changed many times after Stalin's death, the preliminary result of which is a centralisation after an attempt at regional decentralisation.For ideological reasons planning methods changed relatively little compared to pre-war time. The most important planning instruments are the balance of materials and the norms. Both instruments reveal in their traditional forms increasing inadequacies, and problems which result out of the present stage of industrialisation cannot be solved in a satisfactory way with their help. Newly there have been taken steps towards the introduction of more modern methods and towards the overcoming of ideological barriers.〈section xml:id="abs1-2"〉〈title type="main"〉RÉSUMÉDepuis quelques annees, une discussion violente est en cours dans l'Union sovi6-tique au sujet de l'amelioration de la planification economique. II s'agit prin-cipalement d'une adaption de la planification au haut degre d'industrialisation, atteint au courant de quelques dizaines d'annees.L'economie sovietique peut etre concue comme une combination gigantesque avec de nombreuses branches et entreprises, dont la direction est effectuee par le parti et l'etat. Tandis que le parti determina les directives générates, les chargées de l'etat detiennent les fonctions directives particulieres. L'appareil d'adminis-tration economique de l'etat a ete specific selon trois points de vue: secteurs eco-nomiques, fonctions et regions. Depuis la mort de Stalin, la structure d'adminis-tration avait subi de nombreux changements et de reorganisation, qui apres l'essai d'installer une decentralisation regionale, ont abouti pour le moment a une nouvelle centralisation. Les methodes de planification ont peu change vis-a-vis de la periode d'avant-guerre, et ceci pour des raisons ideologiques. Les principaux instruments de planification sont les bilans du materiels et les normes. Les deux instruments sont insuffisants dans leurs formes arrierees et ne peuvent resoudre d'une facon satisfaisante les problemes, issus du stade actuel de l'industrialisation. Pour cette raison, on essaie a present d'introduire des procedes modernes et de surmonter les barrières idéologiques.

Notes: Many of the central problems surrounding economic development require a broader analytic context than that provided by traditional Western economic theory. The value of the institutionalist tradition has been referred to with increasing frequency in this regard. The contributions and shortcomings of this tradition are well illustrated in Veblen's thought. The shortcomings, the principal subject of this paper, include (a) an inadequate treatment of economic motivation (b) a tendency to view the study of economic institutions as a substitute for, rather than a complement to, price theory (including the related disciplines of mathematical economics and econometrics) and (c) an inadequate exploration of the nature and significance of alternative institutions in their relation to economic development. In each of these respects the concepts and comparative analyses of Max Weber provide valuable additions to both methodology and theory. Weber's legacy deserves the attention of all those who believe that (to paraphrase Whitehead) economics should be a survey of possibilities, not a quarrel among irritable professors.

Notes: Two important themes in recent discussions of the evolution of international monetary institutions are the problems of cooperation among central banks and the role of exchange guarantees. These themes are illustrated by a discussion of United States Federal Reserve and Treasury foreign exchange operations, proposals for a multiple key-currency system, and suggestions for making currency swap agreements permanent and access to overdrafts automatic. It is argued that, while cooperation is required in any system, the more it is arranged in advance and formalized the less will be the unjustified deflationary bias in policy. Further, a multiple key-currency system is appreciably more unstable than one based on automatic extensions of liquidity, even if both are supported by exchange guarantees. These considerations suggest that adopting a multiple key-currency system, as advocated by F. A. Lutz among others, would be inferior to automatic prearranged currency swaps and overdrafts as suggested by P. B. Kenen and others.

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Notes: This article deals with the empirical and theoretical significance of the so called Patinkin-debate. Some authors are inclined to disparage the contribution of Patinkin to economic theory, others consider his writings as a new starting point of monetary economics. It is attempted to reconcile both views in stressing the consequences of the fundamental hypothesis implied in Patinkins integration of monetory and value theory, the assumption that prices are flexible. The role of administered prices is confronted with the real balance effect.It is argued that the problem raised by Patinkin is still there as Patinkins solution applies only for perfect competition. It is a theoretical problem of major importance to integrate monetary and value theory in case of imperfect competition. In practice the whole discussion is less important as there exists always a price level determined by the amount of money and the demand for cash.

Notes: According to the neo-classical theory of economic growth, the rate of growth of output tends towards a value which is independent of the proportion of the national income saved. If the proportion of saving changes, the rate of economic growth reaches—after an adjustment process—its original level, which (with a constant labour force) is alone determined by technical progress and the elasticity of the output in respects to changes in the use of the factor capital. Amongst the infinity of possible proportions of investment there must be one, which leads to a maximazition of consumption. It can be shown, that consumption is maximized, if the proportion of investment equals the elasticity of the output to the factor capital.The theorem that the rate of economic growth is independent of the proportion of investment is only valid, if technical progress is autonomous. The equilibrium system postulated in this theorem is indeterminate to the extent that technical change is induced by the process of capital formation. Under these conditions saving and investment decisions again become the determining parameters of the growth rate. Now technical progress may be partly independent of capital formation, but this does not mean that it is totally autonomous. It would be more correct to say that it is a function of, for example the level of technical knowledge and expenditure on education, even if these factors do not enter the analysis explicitly as factors of production. The neo-classical theory of equilibrium, however, is based on the assumption that technical progress is simply a function of time; thus this theory of equilibrium is based upon the choice an inappropriate underlying production function.Moreover, only the rate of economic growth is dependent upon investment activity but not the level of output. With an increasing proportion of investment the level of output increases, tending to a new equilibrium path.There exists a determinable proportion of investment which leads to a maxi-mazition of consumption. Pearce has shown recently, that this is valid only under the condition, that several economies which are on the equilibrium path of growth, are compared. If the optimum path is left temporarily (through an increase in the proportion of investment), a (temporary) increase of consumption, which exceeds the consumption foregone, is obtained. Beyond it, it can be shown, that the optimal proportion of investment must be higher, the more technical progress is induced. If technical progress is not autonomus, the system is again open: in the long run the greater the accumulation of capital the greater the possible consumption level. It is the subsistence minimum which determines the proportion of investment.

Notes: The attitude that Roman Catholic thought should adopt towards the market principle of price establishment turns on implications to be derived from its support for the foudations of the private enterprise economy, the reaction evident in recent years in favour of some more liberal version of the goal of a reformed socio-economic order, and such direct discussion of the market principle as has occurred.‘Official’ Catholic thought has repeatedly affirmed the necessity of guarding private property, initiative and freedom, and urged limiting the role of the state; so that basic, though duly qualified, support for the private enterprise economy is the clear and inescapable consequence.Next respecting the vision of an ideal socio-economic order Mater et Magistra seems to mark a welcome resetting of the balance in favour of the neo-liberal trend in Catholic social thought. It makes no mention of the goal of a corporative economy with the rigid implications inherent in this, substitutes a looser perspective of associational groups and action as the means of filling the old void between unorganised individuals and the state, and shows awareness of the diversity of desirable patterns of reform in different coutries.Lastly, incorporation of the market principle into Roman Catholic thought requires, on the one hand, full acceptance of it as inevitably associated with and necessary to private property and enterprise, and on the other hand and more formally, a working out of its institutional character and the legal and moral safeguards dictated by commutative, distributive and social justices.It has to be borne in mind that the entire argument implicitly views the advanced Western country as the norm, and is subject to considerable qualification respecting the underdeveloped country and various special cases.

Notes: A balance of payments adjustment mechanism should be defined as ‘any balance of payments disturbance which can be deliberately initiated in order to correct some other disturbance’. The traditional mechanisms, based on changes in exchange rates, prices and incomes, can no longer be applied effectively because they are domestically impalatable. Consequently, governments have come to rely on new ways of initiating countervailing disturbances, among them (a) pressures on surplus countries; (b) changes in foreign tastes; (c) stimulating economic growth; and (d) forming or joining a customs union. In the present disequilibrium system, new adjustment mechanisms like these are being widely used, and are in fact becoming the only effective means for maintaining international equilibrium.

Notes: A model of the form xt - xt-1= etwhere xt is the price of a share at time t and et forms a sequence of independent random variates is postulated as a model of the price determining mechanism of stock markets.The form of the distribution function of the et's is investigated. In opposition to suggestions that have been made in connection with other speculative price mechanisms it is found that the distribution function appears to be well approximated by a normal distribution. There is no evidence that the data treated are samples from a stable process with an infinite variance.It is found that the model mentioned above, termed the random-walk model, provides a good explanation of the variation of stock market prices for daily observations of the price, and for the series formed by the price of every transaction taking place in the market. In the context of this model it is noted that it appears that the price determining mechanism continues to operate at a reduced ‘speed’ during times when the actual market is closed.While it has been suggested that a correlation between the volume of shares transacted and the absolute value of the first differences of the price series should be expected, no such correlation was observed.Two questions which the paper leaves open are the question of cross-sectional correlation between different shares, and the question of the possibility of information in moments of order greater than two.In conclusion the following law is stated: ‘The price determining mechanism described in Section II (i. e. the random-walk indicated above) is the only mechanism which is consistent with the unrestrained pursuit of the profit motive by the participants in the market’.

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Notes: Most studies of international demand determinants have found income to be the significant explainer of variations in both imports and exports, while price appeared to have only marginal importance. The present study deals with exports to the United States from eight European countries and gives support to a rather different conclusion: Two price variables—a price index of imports from a particular country, and an index of general-import prices—were significant and sometimes showed high elasticities. United States national income, on the other hand, was a poor explainer of imports from a country supplying finished manufactures, while industrial output was a fair explainer of imports from the suppliers of raw and semimanufactured materials.Of the two successful price variables, general-import prices showed the higher numerical price elasticities. This fact was contrary to the theoretical expectation, and arguments were advanced for believing that there might be greater downward bias in the direct- than in the cross-price elasticities of demand. It was concluded that in general the higher of the two calculated elasticities came closer to the true price elasticity for the country concerned.However, the findings, if taken at face value, also suggest that a European exporting country may be more successful in gaining dollar earnings at the expense of its rivals than at the expense of domestic United States producers. Elasticity with respect to United States domestic prices was low or insignificant; and total imports showed little price response.If it were in fact difficult for the non-dollar world together or even for Europe alone, to adjust its dollar earnings by means of price, it would still be possible for the countries involved to adjust both their dollar and their overall balances. For to the extent that they reduced prices competitively they would be induced to substitute imports from one another for those from the United States.Finally, if the behaviour of overall United States imports can be taken as typical for manufacturing countries' imports, while particular countries' exports to the world as a whole respond to price much as do those to the United States, we can infer that their balance-of-trade adjustments to price will be mainly on the export, rather than on the import, side.

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