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Tables of Contents for Contemporary Economic Issues
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
The International Economic Association
vii
Preface
ix
Michael Bruno
List of Contributors
xiii
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
xiv
Introduction: Discoveries vs Inventions in Economics
xvii
Murat R. Sertel
PART I REGULATORY DESIGN AND CORRUPTION
Liberalization and Regulation of Network Utilities
3
27
David M. Newbery
Bayesian Regulatory Mechanisms: Corruption and Learning
30
19
Semih Koray
Ismail Saglam
Cartels Run by Criminal Organizations and Market Contestability
49
20
Gianluca Fiorentini
PART II DESIGNS FOR COLLECTIVE DECISION-MAKING
Designing Mechanisms, in Particular for Electoral Systems: The Majoritarian Compromise
69
20
Leonid Hurwicz
Murat R. Sertel
Inter-Generational Equity and the Rate of Discount in Long-Term Social Investment
89
14
Kenneth J. Arrow
Induced Technical Change, Scientific Advance and the Efficient Control of Pollution
103
22
Francesco Ferrante
PART III DECENTRALIZATION OF INFORMATION
Decentralized Information Processing in the Theory of Organizations
125
36
Timothy Van Zandt
A Model of Economic Equilibrium in the Market for Information Goods
161
24
Vladimir I. Danilov
Gleb A. Koshevoy
Alexandre I. Sotskov
PART IV ORDER AND CHAOS IN ECONOMIC DYNAMICS: THEORY REVIEWED
The Microeconomics of Invention and Innovation
185
22
David B. Audretsch
The Prehistory of Chaotic Economic Dynamics
207
18
J. Barkley Rosser
Theories of `Endogenous' Growth in Historical Perspective
225
Heinz D. Kurz
Neri Salvadori
Contemporary Economic Issues
Congress Editor: Michael Bruno
Volume 1 Regional Experience And System Reform
Justin Yifu Lin
Volume 2 Labour, Food and Poverty
Yair Mundlak
Volume 3 Trade, Payments And Debt
Daniel Cohen
Volume 4 Economic Behaviour And Design
Murat R. Sertel
Volume 5 Macroeconomics And Finance
Holger C. Wolf