Socialism, Capitalism and Economic Growth
Essays Presented to Maurice Dobb

These essays were written in 1969 to mark the retirement of Maurice Dobb from the Readership in Economics an Cambridge University.

C. H. Feinstein (Edited by)

9780521290074, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 4 December 1975

380 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.56 kg

These essays were written in 1969 to mark the retirement of Maurice Dobb from the Readership in Economics an Cambridge University. The contributors are economists and historians from many parts of the world. The unifying theme, economic growth and planning under socialism and capitalism, was central to the major part of Maurice Dobb's work.

Editor's preface
Maurice Dobb Eric Hobsbawm
Part I. Problems in the Theory of Economic Growth: 1. A classical model of economic growth Leif Johansen
2. The interest rate and transition between techniques Robert M. Solow
3. Terminal capital and optimum savings Amartya K. Sen
4. A growth cycle R. M. Goodwin
5. The applications of Marx's model of expanded reproduction to trade cycle theory Péter Erdös
6. On the tendency for the rate of profit to fall A. A. Konüs
Part II. Planning and the Market: 1. The curve of production and the evaluation of the efficiency of investment in a socialist economy Michal Kaleki
2. A model for the planning of prices O. Kýn, B. Sekerka and L. Hejl
4. Some suggestions on a modern theory of the optimum regime Jan Tinbergen
5. Socialist market relations and planning Ota Šik
6. The computer and the market Oskar Lange
7. Socialism, planning, economic growth Kurt W. Rothschild
8. Socialist affluence Joan Robinson
Part III. Problems of Economic Development: 1. Obstacles to economic development Paul M. Sweezy
2. Capitalism, science and technology Josef Steindl
3. On the political compulsions of economic growth Theodor Prager
4. Role of the 'machine-tools sector' in economic growth K. N. Raj
5. National economy planning and the development of the natural sciences Sh. Ya. Turwtsky
6. On the possibility of constructing a model of transition to socialism in Italy Antonio Pesenti
Part IV. Economic Growth in Historical Perspective: 1. World economy in transition (1859–2060) Surendra J. Patel
2. Some random reflections on Soviet Industrialization E. H. Carr
3. Some problems of urban real property in the Middle Ages R. H. Hilton
4. Pottage for freeborn Englishmen: attitudes to wage labour in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Christopher Hill
Part V: A Bibliography of Works by Maurice Dobb
Index.

Subject Areas: Economics [KC]