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Contents
Foreword

Theory

1. Social Priorities, Economic Efficiency, and an Unexamined Premise of Alfred Marshall

2. Fractals, Chaos Theory, and the Limits of Economic Forecasting

3. The Theory of Transborder Free Trade Areas

4. The Theory of Social Product Differentiation: Imperfect Competition Revisited

5. The Theory of Second Best and U.S. Trade Policy

6. Reflections on Wage and Salary Differentials and Family Income

7. De-industrialization, the Welfare Burden, and the Concept of Sump Industries

8. Deficits, Dollars, and Currency Differentiation

9. Perestroika, Oscar Lange, and Point-of-Sale Technology

10. Some Theoretical Considerations Regarding Problems of International Economic Policy Coordination

11. The Theory of Declining Marginal Utility Revisited

12. Neither Doth the State Live By Bread Alone: An Argument for a Broadened Definition of the Public Interest

13. The Phillips Curve, Supply-side Economics, and the Vagaries of Economic Theory


Analysis

14. A Dissident View of LDC Debt

15. Mercadotecnia Internacional: Nueva Disciplina, Nuevas Ideas

16. An International Org. that Works: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

17. Wan Runen and Oscar Lange: Market Socialism Revisited

18. The OECD Growth Target: An International Policy Coordination Effort that Succeeded

19. What if Everyone Were Rich --a response to a letter from a brilliant grandson


Prescription

20. Urgently Needed: An OECD, Mark II

21. Some Ideas for the Bureau of the Budget and National Economic Commission to Consider to Help Achieve Budget Balance

22. A Proposal for a Stamp Tax: The Boston Tea Party Revisited

23. A Notion for a Graduated Corporate Income Tax Related to Company Performance as a Control Over Golden Parachutes and Other Unreal Executive Reward Structures

24. On WW-I Debt

25. Time for the U.S. to Introduce a New Currency

26. On the Possibility of a form of Politically Harmless Variable Social Security Payments


Instruction

27. A Short Course in Western Economics for Those Reared on Marxism


Letters

28. To the Washington Poston Regulators, Investment Reserve Funds,and Domestic Policy

29. To The Economist re Protectionism and the Theory of Second Best

30. To The Economist re Bagwwati/Bergsten Debate re Regional Trade Organizations with a comment on a reason Utah has fewer physicians per capita than some other states

31. To Bureau of the Budget Director Rivlin

32. To Commerce Under Secretary Jeff Garten re Combined U. S. Trade Centers

33. To Jack Kemp re Value Added Tax

34. To Representative Cardon re National Consumption Tax

35. To Senator Robert Bennett encouraging him to push for dollar revaluation so US dollar will be competitive with the Euro when it is introduced in 1999

36.To Representative Gephardt on Second Best Trade Policy

37. To Representative McGrery on Welfare Reform

38. To Editor of Business Week advocating a column in support of a British-style "Regulator"

39. To Editor of Wilson Quarterly,on Theory of the Second Best

40. To US Treasury official Russell Munk re introduction of size-color differentiate dollar bills when the Treasury started introducing new 50 and 100 dollar notes

41. To the Deseret News Regarding Operations of the new World Trade Organization

42. To Secretary Brady to suggest that we unilaterally declare an end to the post WW-I debt

43. To the editor of the International Herald Tribune
 

Book Review
44. The International Economic Policy Coordination Instrument: the OECD Experience


Miscellaneous

45. The Year 2000 Computer Problem
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