1st Edition

Essays in Economics: v. 2: Theories, Facts and Policies

By Wassily W. Leontief Copyright 1977

    First Published in 2015. This is volume 2 of a selection of essays on economics looking at the theories, facts and policies and including topics of U.S. national accounts, alternatives to Input-Output analysis and environmental repercussions and the economic structure as well as the balance of the economy in the USSR.

    Part 1 Essays in Economics; Chapter I The balance of the economy of the USSR; Chapter II The theory and statistical description of concentration; Chapter III Theoretical assumptions and nonobserved facts; Chapter IV An alternative to aggregation in input-output analysis and national accounts; Chapter V The dynamic inverse; Chapter VI Environmental repercussions and the economic structure: an input-output approach; Chapter VII National income, economic structure, and environmental externalities; Chapter VIII An international comparison of factor costs and factor use; Chapter IX Explanatory power of the comparative cost theory of international trade and its limits; Chapter X Structure of the world economy; Chapter XI National economic planning: methods and problems;

    Biography

    Wassily W. Leontief