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01 Jan 1984
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an approach to economic evaluation based on the use of discount rates for social benefit-cost analysis in the context of a cooperative enterprise, where the goal is to maximize the saving rate of the workers.
Abstract: Preface Introduction Part I: Institutions and Motivation Peasants and Dualism with or without Surplus Labour Labour Allocation in a Cooperative Enterprise The Profit Motive Part II: Isolation and Social Investment On Optimizing the Rate of Saving Isolation, Assurance and the Social Rate of Discount Terminal Capital and Optimum Savings On Some Debates in Capital Theory Approaches to to the Choice of Discount Rates for Social Benefit-Cost Analysis Part III: Shadow Pricing and Employment Optimum Savings, Technical Choice and the Shadow Price of Labour Control Areas and Accounting Prices: An Approach to Economic Evaluation Employment, Institutions and Technology: Some Policy Issues Part IV: Morals and Mores Ethical Issues in Income Distribution: National and International Rights and Capabilities Poor, Relatively Speaking Family and Food: Sex Bias in Poverty Economics and the Family Part V: Goods and Well-being The Welfare Basis of Real Income Comparisons Ingredients of Famine Analysis: Availability and Entitlements Development: Which Way Now? Goods and People Name Index Subject Index

1,042 citations



01 Jan 1984

19 citations