Capitalism, Socialism, and Serfdom: Essays by Evsey D. Domar

by Evsey D. Domar

Overview

This book contains fourteen of Professor Domar's principal papers, beginning with On the Measurement of Technological Change, published in 1961 and ending with The Blind Men and the Elephant, which has not appeared in print before. The book is divided into four parts. Part I presents three non-technical essays on economic development and economic systems, including a novel comparison between them. Part II deals with the theory and measurement of the so-called "Index of Total Factor Productivity" for several countries, and includes an essay on the theory of index numbers. Part III compares the Soviet and American patterns of economic development. Part IV presents three applications of economic theory to historical problems: in particular, serfdom and slavery, and contains the now classic essay The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521070201
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/31/2008
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part I. Economic Systems: 1. Reflections on economic development; 2. Poor old capitalism: a review article; 3. The blind men and the elephant: an essay on isms; Part II. Economic growth and productivity: 4. On the measurement of technological change; 5. On total productivity and all that: a review article; 6. Economic growth and productivity in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan in the post-war period (with S. M. Eddie, B. H. Herrick, P. M. Hohenberg, M. D. Intrilligator, and I. Miyamoto); 7. An index-number tournament; 8. On the measurement of comparative efficiency; Part III. Soviet Economics: 9. Special features of industrialization in planned economies: a comparison between the Soviet Union and the United States; 10. The Soviet collective farm as a producer cooperative; 11. On the optimal compensation of a socialist manager; Part IV. Slavery and Serfdom: 12. The causes of slavery or serfdom: a hypothesis; 13. On the profitability of Russian serfdom (with M. J. Machina); 14. Were Russian serfs overcharged for their land by the 1861 Emancipation? the history of one historical table; Index.