Value, Capital and Growth was written as a mark of honor to Sir
John Hicks on the occasion of his retirement as Drummond Professor
of Political Economy at the University of Oxford. As the title
implies, most of the essays are directed to the development of the
three great topics of modern economic theory to which he
contributed--Value, Capital, and Growth. More specifically, there
are important papers on general equilibrium, aggregation, and index
numbers-- all topics of deep interest in international
economics.
The volume is particularly noteworthy for a number of papers
exploring hitherto unrealized implications of general equilibrium
models. There are also several papers dealing with mathematical
economics as they relate to trade and development, which will be of
great interest to students of those fields. Few theorists possessed
Hicks catholicity in economics and his interest in and appetite for
all branches of applied economics, and especially comparative
economic history. His interests ranged from Italian Renaissance
banking to academic publishing and the export and import of
scholarly works,
The international eminence of the contributors and the quality
of their work ensure that this volume is a fitting tribute to a
great economist and that it will be studied carefully for many
years. No effort was spared to present the work in a style and
format worthy of the subject and of the occasion. The volume
includes masterful contributions by Kenneth Arrow, Jagdish
Bhagwati, Roy Harrod, Paul A. Samuelson, Robert M. Solow, and Alan
A. Walters among others, and contains a full biographical and
bibliographical data base on Hicks.
J.N. Wolfe was professor of economics at the University of
Edinburgh until his retirement.
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