LEADER 04253nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910451423103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-91937-3 010 $a9786611919375 010 $a981-277-425-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000411348 035 $a(EBL)1679372 035 $a(OCoLC)879023548 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000179285 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11168942 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000179285 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10138000 035 $a(PQKB)10296212 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1679372 035 $a(WSP)00006026 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1679372 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10201367 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL191937 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000411348 100 $a20070315d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aInframarginal contributions to development economics$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Christis Tombazos, Xiaokai Yang 210 $aNew Jersey $cWorld Scientific$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (564 p.) 225 1 $aIncreasing returns and inframarginal economics ;$vv. 3 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a981-256-658-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aContents; 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 Development 327 $aChapter 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 Labor 327 $aPart 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 Firm 327 $aChapter 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 Rights 327 $aChapter 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 Capital 327 $aChapter 17. A New Theory of Industrialization 330 $aThe core of classical economic analysis represented by William Petty and Adam Smith concentrated on the field of development economics. This classical footing of the study of development is different from the neoclassical perspective in two important respects: (a) it focuses on division of labor as the driving force of development, and (b) it emphasizes the role of the market (the "invisible hand") in exploiting productivity gains that are derived from division of labor. However these aspects have received little attention in the body of literature that represents the modern 410 0$aIncreasing returns and inframarginal economics ;$vv. 3. 606 $aDevelopment economics 606 $aEconomic development 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDevelopment economics. 615 0$aEconomic development. 676 $a338.9 701 $aTombazos$b Christis G$0885634 701 $aYang$b Xiaokai$0140514 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451423103321 996 $aInframarginal contributions to development economics$91977532 997 $aUNINA