Beschrijving

List of Participants – Preface – PART 1 THE RELEVANCE OF ECONOMIC INCENTIVES FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT – Prices, Incentives and Economic Growth; B.Balassa – Microeconomic Incentives and Macroeconomic Decline; M.Olson – Social Insurance: Incentives and Disincentives to Save and to Work; M.Janssen – Incentives and Disincentives: International Migration; J.N.Bhagwati – Incentives for the Homogenization of Time Use; D.S.Hamermesh – Incentives for Entrepreneurship and Supporting Institutions; R.R.Nelson – The Incentive Limits of Firms: A Comparative Institutional Assessment of Bureaucracy; O.E.Williamson – PART 2 COUNTRY EXPERIENCE WITH RESTRUCTURING INCENTIVES – Incentives in the Soviet Economy; T.S.Kahchaturov – Restructuring Incentives in Hungary; B.Csik s-Nagy – Incentives in the United Kingdom; P.Minford – Economic Reforms in Chile, 1973-1981; A.Saieh and L.A.Sjaastad – Restructuring Incentives in the People’s Republic of China; A.Gutowski and R.Merklein – From Bankruptcy to Revival: The Turkish Experience with Restructuring Economic Incentives, 1980-1984; E.G nensay – Obstacles to Changing the Incentive System: The Case of the Federal Republic of Germany; H.Bonus – PART 3 INCENTIVES IN THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY – Incentives and Disincentives for Foreign Direct Investment in Less Developed Countries; V.N.Balasubramanyan – Rent-Seeking and Trade Policy: An Industry Approach; R.E.Baldwin – The Function of Governments and Intergovernmental Organizations in the International Resource Transfer: The Case of the World Bank; B.S.Frey – PART 4 CONCLUDING APPRAISALS – Incentives and Growth: An Appraisal; K.J.Arrow – Incentives and Growth: A Summary Appraisal; J.B.Donges – Index