This carefully edited selection of Robert Eisner's essays ties together his authoritative contributions to economic analysis and macroeconomic policy issues, particularly business, investment and tax policy. He offers a trenchant analysis of the fundamental issues of employment, investment and economic welfare in an advanced market economy, offering a challenge to the conventional wisdom on macroeconomic theory and policy.
Professor Eisner first examines the determinants of business investment and criticizes neoclassical theories on investment. He goes on to assess the role of tax incentives in investment and finds that tax policy is a flawed way of attempting to encourage investment. He also analyses national income accounting and offers some alternative measurements for calculating national product. Professor Eisner then examines the implications of war for the economy and explores the macroeconomic consequences of disarmament including its possible effects on unemployment. Lastly, he addresses the conflict between economic policy and principle; particularly concerning the environment, insurance and the theory of choice, academic freedom and the elderly.
| ISBN: | 9781858988474 |
| Publication date: | 25th November 1998 |
| Author: | Robert Eisner |
| Publisher: | Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 640 pages |
| Series: | The Selected Essays of Robert Eisner |
| Genres: |
Economic theory and philosophy Macroeconomics |
This carefully edited selection of Robert Eisner's essays ties together his authoritative contributions to economic analysis and macroeconomic policy issues, particularly business, investment and tax policy. He offers a trenchant analysis of the fundamental issues of employment, investment and economic welfare in an advanced market economy, offering a challenge to the conventional wisdom on macroeconomic theory and policy.
Professor Eisner first examines the determinants of business investment and criticizes neoclassical theories on investment. He goes on to assess the role of tax incentives in investment and finds that tax policy is a flawed way of attempting to encourage investment. He also analyses national income accounting and offers some alternative measurements for calculating national product. Professor Eisner then examines the implications of war for the economy and explores the macroeconomic consequences of disarmament including its possible effects on unemployment. Lastly, he addresses the conflict between economic policy and principle; particularly concerning the environment, insurance and the theory of choice, academic freedom and the elderly.
Investment, National Income and Economic Policy features in the following genres: Economic theory and philosophy, Macroeconomics, History of ideas
Investment, National Income and Economic Policy is available in Hardback
Investment, National Income and Economic Policy was written by Robert Eisner and published by Edward Elgar Publishing
Investment, National Income and Economic Policy has 640 pages
Yes it is part of The Selected Essays of Robert Eisner series