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1 online resource (xxi, 463 pages) : illustrations |
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Historical perspectives on modern economics |
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Historical perspectives on modern economics.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Figures/Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Becoming an Economic Expert -- 1 The Construction of Peace -- 1.1 High Hopes -- 1.2 Naïve Utopianism -- 1.3 Tinbergen's The Hague -- 1.4 The Organization of Peace and Economic Prosperity -- 2 A Progressive Education -- 2.1 The Tinbergen Household -- 2.2 Luuk and Niko -- 2.3 Growing Up -- 3 The Bourgeois Socialist -- 3.1 In between Classes -- 3.2 The Social-Democratic Student Club of Leiden -- 3.3 The AJC in Leiden |
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3.4 Pacifism -- 4 From Ehrenfest to the Econometric Society -- 4.1 The Socrates of Leiden -- 4.2 The Essential Problems in Science -- 4.3 A PhD in Physics, and a Start in Economics -- 4.4 Useful Education and Science -- 4.5 The Econometric Society in Leiden -- 5 Hendrik de Man and Jan Tinbergen -- 5.1 Hendrik de Man and Cultural Socialism -- 5.2 From Cultural Socialism to the Plan Movement -- 5.3 What Planning? -- 5.4 The Plans of Labor -- 5.5 Socialist Goals, Fascist Means? -- 6 Macro-dynamics and the Problem of Unemployment -- 6.1 Unemployment and Rationalization -- 6.2 Dynamic Steps |
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6.3 Smoothing Dynamics -- 6.4 A Model of the Dutch Economy -- 6.5 Tinbergen's Scientific and Econometric Vision -- 7 The Rise of the People's Party (Volkspartei) and the Economics of the General Interest -- Part II The Years of High Expertise -- 8 From The Hague to Geneva: The World Order of the League of Nations -- 8.1 International Intelligence -- 8.2 The First Volume of Tinbergen's Study -- 8.3 The Second Volume of Tinbergen's Study -- 8.4 Tinbergen or Tinbergen, Polak, Koopmans, Loveday, Robertson, and Frisch -- 8.5 A Third Volume on International Economic Order? -- 9 Fascism at Home |
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9.1 Wartime -- 9.2 Fascism on the Rise -- 9.3 The War and the Breakthrough Movement -- 9.4 The Reconstruction Years -- 10 Tinbergen's Theory of Economic Policymaking -- 10.1 Economic Dynamics without Policy -- 10.2 Not Prediction, Task-Setting -- 10.3 The Theory of Economic Policy -- 10.4 Who Does the Planning? Centralization and Decentralization -- 11 The Expert in the Model, the Economist outside the Model -- Part III Global Expertise -- 12 Opening up Vistas: India and the World -- 12.1 Stuck at Home? -- 12.2 To India? -- 12.3 Imagining the World Economy -- 12.4 Imagining World Development |
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13 Development Planning on Paper -- 13.1 Procedural Excellence -- 13.2 Shaping the World Economy -- 13.3 Planning in Space and Time -- 13.4 Development Economics without Culture and Morality? -- 14 Development Planning on the Ground: Tinbergen in Turkey -- 14.1 The Prehistory -- 14.2 A Fresh Start -- 14.3 The Process of Planning -- 14.4 The Great Resignation -- 14.5 The Second Five-Year Plan and Tinbergen's Departure -- 15 Sometime the Twain Shall Meet: The Optimal Order -- 15.1 Coexistence -- 15.2 Socialism at Home -- 15.3 What Is Optimal about the Optimal Order? |
| Summary |
"Economists are, in our day and age, best known as policy experts. This book is about one of them, Jan Tinbergen. He paved the way for this new type of economist. The economic expert is a government functionary, who works in service of the economic and social goals of government. The rise of the economic expert was intimately connected with a change in what was considered the most valuable sort of economic knowledge. For the expert an economy is not a natural system he studies like a physicist would, but a system which he can steer. and improve. The rise of expertise also gave birth to new types of institutions: business-cycle institutes, planning offices, forecasting bureaus, and international organizations of economic expertise.. Economists have, of course, always been concerned with policy. From (free) trade regimes, the best way to manage the currency, and the role of the state in the provision of public goods, policy questions have never been far from the mind of economists. But they typically did so in their role as professor and public intellectual. Economists since Adam Smith., and undoubtedly before him, have played an important role in shaping the thought of both politicians and the public about markets and trade, and the proper functions of the state. They often also had the ear of those in charge. The most famous economist of the past century, John Maynard Keynes., had the ear of the politicians in Britain of his age, and his ideas had influence across the world"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 22, 2021) |
| Subject |
Tinbergen, Jan, 1903-1994.
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| SUBJECT |
Tinbergen, Jan, 1903-1994 fast |
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Economists -- Netherlands -- Biography
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Economic history -- 1945-
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General.
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Economic history
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Economists
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Netherlands
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Biographies
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021012014 |
| ISBN |
9781108856546 |
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1108856543 |
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