04253nam 2200685 a 450 991045142310332120200520144314.01-281-91937-39786611919375981-277-425-4(CKB)1000000000411348(EBL)1679372(OCoLC)879023548(SSID)ssj0000179285(PQKBManifestationID)11168942(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000179285(PQKBWorkID)10138000(PQKB)10296212(MiAaPQ)EBC1679372(WSP)00006026(Au-PeEL)EBL1679372(CaPaEBR)ebr10201367(CaONFJC)MIL191937(EXLCZ)99100000000041134820070315d2006 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrInframarginal contributions to development economics[electronic resource] /edited by Christis Tombazos, Xiaokai YangNew Jersey World Scientific20061 online resource (564 p.)Increasing returns and inframarginal economics ;v. 3Description based upon print version of record.981-256-658-9 Includes bibliographical references.Contents; Preface; Part 1. Introduction; Chapter 1. Returning to the Classical Tradition: The Relevance and Application of Infra-marginal Analysis to Development Economics; Part 2. The Origins of Infra-marginal Applications to the Study of Economic DevelopmentChapter 2. The Marginal Cost Controversy Chapter 3. Economics and Biology: Specialization and Speciation; Chapter 4. Externality ; Part 3. Development Strategies, Income Distribution, and Dual Structures; Chapter 5. Economic Development, International Trade, and Income Distribution; Chapter 6. Pursuit of Relative Utility and Division of LaborPart 4. Urbanization Chapter 7. Development, Structural Changes and Urbanization; Chapter 8. An Equilibrium Model Endogenizing the Emergence of a Dual Structure between the Urban and Rural Sectors; Chapter 9. Agglomeration Economies, Division of Labour and the Urban Land-Rent Escalation: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Urbanisation; Part 5. Entrepreneurship and the FirmChapter 10. Theory of the Firm and Structure of Residual Rights Chapter 11. The Theory of Irrelevance of the Size of the Firm; Chapter 12. Specialization, Product Development, Evolution of the Institution of the Firm, and Economic Growth; Part 6. Endogenous Transaction Costs and Property RightsChapter 13. Endogenous Specialisation and Endogenous Principal-Agent Relationship Chapter 14. A Model Formalizing the Theory of Property Rights; Chapter 15. Economy of Specialization and Diseconomy of Externalities; Part 7. Investment, Endogenous Growth, and Social Experiments; Chapter 16. The Division of Labor, Investment and CapitalChapter 17. A New Theory of IndustrializationThe core of classical economic analysis represented by William Petty and Adam Smith concentrated on the field of development economics. This <i>classical</i> footing of the study of development is different from the <i>neoclassical</i> perspective in two important respects: (a) it focuses on division of labor as the driving force of development, and (b) it emphasizes the role of the market (the "invisible hand") in exploiting productivity gains that are derived from division of labor. However these aspects have received little attention in the body of literature that represents the modernIncreasing returns and inframarginal economics ;v. 3.Development economicsEconomic developmentElectronic books.Development economics.Economic development.338.9Tombazos Christis G885634Yang Xiaokai140514MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451423103321Inframarginal contributions to development economics1977532UNINA