Resources, Values, and DevelopmentHarvard University Press, 1984 - 547 páginas Essays on development economics and the role of Motivation and value systems in resource allocation - looks at the peasantry and dualistic farming, and the profit motive; examines investment policies and discounting, shadow pricing, employment policies and project evaluation; analyses ethics in income distribution, poverty and intra-family sex discrimination, food security and entitlement, malnutrition and morbidity; discusses the nature of economic development, institutional frameworks at all levels, etc. Graphs, references, statistical tables. |
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Peasants and Dualism with or without Surplus Labour | 37 |
Labour Allocation in a Cooperative Enterprise | 73 |
The Profit Motive | 90 |
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