ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1985.tb01702.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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Economists who have proposed government regulation to solve ‘market failure’ are guilty of short‐sightedness, since regulations are captured by interest groups to maintain monopoly and exclude competition, Catherine Blight (right), a Scottish economist and lawyer, examines the effectiveness of free markets and dynamic legal systems to break down monopolies, and calls for a policy of anti‐reg

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1985.tb01703.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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For decades the conventional wisdom maintained that ‘public’ (a euphemism for government) expenditure was good for economic life Professors Datta and Gordon, of the Universities of Visra‐Bhariti (West Bengal) and Southern California, claim that evidence from the Third World suggests how government retards economic growth and depresses living standards Their argument may be technical but their conclusions cannot be misinterpreted even by polit

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1985.tb01704.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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Welfare economists have long been bamboozled by cries of ‘need’ from social workers and employees of local government ‘services’ Alex Cummins, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, New College, Durham, reveals how the subjective term ‘need’ has been misused by politically motivated professionals to lasso increased government expenditure intended to help the unde

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1985.tb01705.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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The ascent of Mikhail Gorbachev as leader of the USSR was hailed as the end of hardline policies from the Politburo Polish economist Jacek Rostowski questions Gorbachev's relative ‘liberalism’ and examines communist disagreement on the admission of market forces to economic po

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1985.tb01706.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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Communist China, in contrast to Russia and other East European states, has a long tradition of markets. Arthur Seldon welcomes the increasing honesty with which the Chinese Government, under Deng Xaio‐Ping (right), is rejecting centralised contro

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1985.tb01707.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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Edward Heath continues intermittently to call for increased state spending to relieve unemployment and stimulate economic growth. Rodney Atkinson examines the history of the steel town, Consett (Mr Heath's example), to reveal that government intervention is the cause of its problems, not its potential saviour.

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1985.tb01708.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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Highly publicised Western, aid to Ethiopia will do little to relieve the source of her distress, Nick Elliott (right), at the University of York, blames the attempted eradication of markets by Mengistu's regime.

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1985.tb01709.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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Is tax relief on mortgage interest a subsidy to the home owner or do private house‐holders live in the shadow of Westminster (above)? Professor Parry Lewis challenges the Report of the Committee chaired by the Duke of Edinburgh, and argues for the retention of relie

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1985.tb01710.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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Keynes wrote in 1936 that ‘Practical men, who behove themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usualy the slaves of some defunct economist’. John Hibbs, still happily far from being defunct, assesses the extent to which ideas can shape public policy if their advocates are prepared to withstand the opposition of vested inteiests who stand to lose from cha

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1985.tb01711.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY