Structure, System and Economic Policy [Paperback]

This is a volume of papers organized by Professor Leontief for the 1976 meeting of the Economics section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.This is a volume of papers organized by Professor Leontief for the 1976 meeting of the Economics section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The chapters include a paper by Professor Leontief applying input-output to the future of the world economy, and others consider prices, regional problems, material supplies, urban problems, technical progress, unemployment and energy policy.This is a volume of papers organized by Professor Leontief for the 1976 meeting of the Economics section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The chapters include a paper by Professor Leontief applying input-output to the future of the world economy, and others consider prices, regional problems, material supplies, urban problems, technical progress, unemployment and energy policy.This is a volume of papers organized by Professor Leontief for the 1976 meeting of the Economics section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. After a paper by Professor Leontief applying input-output to the future of the world economy, other papers consider prices, regional problems, material supplies, urban problems, technical progress, unemployment and energy policy. There are two papers with a broader view of the British economy, one surveying government policy on the industrial structure of the economy and one considering the use of input-output for monitoring the development of the economy.Preface; 1. Projecting the future of the world economy Wassily Leontief; 2. Input-output, technological change and inflation: the end of the Keynesian era W. F. Gossling; 3. A study of sectoral prices and their movements in the British economy in an input-output framework P. N. Mathur; 4. Linkages, key sectors and development strategy J. McGilvray; 5. Government policy and the structure of the econl³-