Showing papers by "Stockholm School of Economics published in 1978"

An Approach to Solving Multi-Person Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making Problems

Abstract: Most papers dealing with multiple-criteria problems regard the criteria as given and confine the analysis to a discussion of how to combine the values of the criteria in order to achieve a compound utility index. Furthermore, most papers assume there to be only one single decision maker. In this paper we will describe how the criteria — and the weights — of a multi-person multiple-criteria problem may be determined. Various techniques are used, e.g. a revised Delphi approach to capture the preferences of the participants and factor analysis to limit the number of criteria included in the model.

Trends in European Telecommunications

Abstract: European tele administrations are planning different communications systems. The telecommunications administration in France along with a regional planning agency, DATAR, are creating a nationwide telecentre network, and in Sweden a switched broadband network has been proposed by the Telecoms Administration.

Wicksell, Bowley, Schumpeter and the Dolls’ Eyes

Abstract: This article aims at drawing attention to Wicksell’s last important contribution to economic theory, namely his model for bilateral monopoly.1 This aspect of Wicksell’s work has not received its proper attention, mainly because the model that should have been called the Wicksell model is known in the literature as the Bowley model. For half a century this model—implying a determinate solution of the bilateral monopoly problem—has competed with models implying that this problem is indeterminable on economic grounds, at least as regards price. The most recent research in this area, however, has given at least partial support to the Wicksellian idea that bilateral monopoly has a determinate solution, in that a completely determinate solution can be established on the basis of economic factors alone for many situations.

The Capital Controversy

Abstract: It has been considered obvious and natural that when the time necessary to produce a product goes up, then the number of workers necessary for the production goes down and therefore the production per capita goes up and the rate of interest goes down.2) As was pointed out in Chapter 3, Sraffa has shown that it is not clear that a lowering of the interest rate will lead to an increase in the time necessary for production.

Nordic home ports for ships

Abstract: The geographic pattern of shipowning in the Nordic countries is treated in the article. The pattern is analyzed for a pre-World War I year (1913) and a recent year (1973) and a comparison made between the two. The areas where sail shipping remained longest are singled out for discussion on the assumption that the local financing of the ships and recruitment of the crews made these poor regions the apogee of shipping as a way of life. The format of the article did not allow a process-oriented description of the changes between 1913 and 1973. Two questions were asked: did the financial concentration of shipping in the intervening period also lead to a geographic concentration? Did the old sailship regions remain important recruitment areas for sailors?

Competition for the general cargo transports of Sweden's foreign trade

Abstract: The object of the paper is to analyze changes in modal and port allocation of general cargo flows in Sweden's foreign trade between 1960 and 1976. It summarizes some results of a forthcoming report on the project ‘Tendencies in Liner Shipping’ financed by the ‘Transport Research Delegation’, Stockholm.

Applications: An Introduction

Abstract: In his analysis of Marx’ works, Balibar (Althusser and Balibar, 1970, p.209ff) finds that every mode of production consists of the following elements namely the labourer (labour power), the means of production (object of labour and means of labour), and the non-labourer.