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The world economy has undergone a fundamental transformation in
recent decades and theoretical structures inherited from the 1930s
through the 1950s, while retaining large elements of truth, are
inadequate to deal with current problems. Benjamin Higgins feels
that for a society such as the United States a fiscal policy needs
to be adopted that can deal simultaneously with existing
unemployment and inflation. He suggests three possible governmental
policies: stimulating a high rate of long-run growth, by use of
reward innovations and by maintaining the highest possible level of
scientific and technical activity; isolating regions that are
generators of inflation and others that are pools for unemployment;
and establishing a system of direct controls similar to those used
in wartime. Higgins describes the transformation of the cogent
prewar business cycle, with its "alternations" of inflation or
unemployment, then a transitional period of underemployment
equilibrium and secular stagnation, and finally, the strange new
world of today, one with economic fluctuations in the form of
shifting trade-off curves and loops. He then applies his new
paradigm to current problems, showing why they cannot be managed
through macroeconomic monetary and fiscal policy. Higgins offers
case studies of efforts to fight inflation and unemployment, and to
reduce regional gaps, to show their strengths and weaknesses. It
can be said that unemployment always results from too many people
chasing too few jobs, and inflation is always caused by too much
money chasing too few goods and services. Beyond such banal
generalizations, Higgins maintains there is no single cause for
either unemployment or inflation, and thus no single cure can be
prescribed for either, let alone for both at once. Nor is it to be
expected that the appropriate cure will prove to be the same in all
countries at all times. He suggests that an optimal blend of
monetary and fiscal policy that will produce the "minimum
discomfort" is a good start. "Employment Without Inflation" will be
of direct policy interest to economists, sociologists, and national
planners.
Dissatisfaction with a human services system that is
unresponsive, stigmatizing, and ineffective has led to a ferment of
experimentation in recent years. Reinventing Human Services
examines the historical and economic context of current efforts to
reinvent human services, showing the urgency and the difficulty of
the task. It draws on successful examples in Britain, Canada, and
the United States to develop a new paradigm for social work
practice, one that integrates individual, family, and community
levels of practice and reconceptualizes professional-community
relations. The interdisciplinary team of authors includes scholars,
researchers, and practitioners from the disciplines of economics,
urban planning, communications, criminal justice, psychology,
marriage and family therapy, education, and social work.
Originally published in 1988. Leading international researchers in
regional economic development have contributed an integrated set of
chapters reviewing the whole field and taking stock of current
thinking. The book is in honour of Francois Perroux, the father of
regional development theory, whose contributions to two important
concepts in economics - time and space - have been substantial. The
book comprises five parts. Part one covers Perroux's work in
general and on growth poles in particular. Part two deals with 'the
politics of place', population and regional development, techniques
for regional policy analysis and a neoclassical approach to
regional economics. In part three the Canadian scene is reviewed at
national and regional levels. In part four chapters on urban
development, small and medium-size cities, and capital grants deal
with the experiences of other countries. Part five concludes the
book with a chapter on growth poles, optimal size of cities, and
regional disparities and government intervention.
The world economy has undergone a fundamental transformation in
recent decades and theoretical structures inherited from the 1930s
through the 1950s, while retaining large elements of truth, are
inadequate to deal with current problems. Benjamin Higgins feels
that for a society such as the United States a fiscal policy needs
to be adopted that can deal simultaneously with existing
unemployment and inflation. He suggests three possible governmental
policies: stimulating a high rate of long-run growth, by use of
reward innovations and by maintaining the highest possible level of
scientific and technical activity; isolating regions that are
generators of inflation and others that are pools for unemployment;
and establishing a system of direct controls similar to those used
in wartime. Higgins describes the transformation of the cogent
prewar business cycle, with its alternations of inflation or
unemployment, then a transitional period of underemployment
equilibrium and secular stagnation, and finally, the strange new
world of today, one with economic fluctuations in the form of
shifting trade-off curves and loops. He then applies his new
paradigm to current problems, showing why they cannot be managed
through macroeconomic monetary and fiscal policy. Higgins offers
case studies of efforts to fight inflation and unemployment, and to
reduce regional gaps, to show their strengths and weaknesses. It
can be said that unemployment always results from too many people
chasing too few jobs, and inflation is always caused by too much
money chasing too few goods and services. Beyond such banal
generalizations, Higgins maintains there is no single cause for
either unemployment or inflation, and thus no single cure can be
prescribed for either, let alone for both at once. Nor is it to be
expected that the appropriate cure will prove to be the same in all
countries at all times. He suggests that an optimal blend of
monetary and fiscal policy that will produce the "minimum
discomfort" is a good start. Employment Without Inflation will be
of direct policy interest to economists, sociologists, and national
planners.
Dissatisfaction with a human services system that is unresponsive,
stigmatizing, and ineffective has led to a ferment of
experimentation in recent years. Reinventing Human Services
examines the historical and economic context of current efforts to
reinvent human services, showing the urgency and the difficulty of
the task. It draws on successful examples in Britain, Canada, and
the United States to develop a new paradigm for social work
practice, one that integrates individual, family, and community
levels of practice and reconceptualizes professional-community
relations. The interdisciplinary team of authors includes scholars,
researchers, and practitioners from the disciplines of economics,
urban planning, communications, criminal justice, psychology,
marriage and family therapy, education, and social work.
Throughout the world today former nation-states, as disparate as
Yugoslavia, Somalia, and Canada, have either disintegrated or
threaten to splinter into regions. The conflicts are economic,
social, ethnic, linguistic, religious, political, and cultural.
Higgins and Savoie analyze the reasons for these conflicts and show
why attempts to eliminate regional disparities within nations have
been largely unsuccessful. This volume is a highly readable,
comprehensive survey of the literature and current debates in the
fields of regional economics, development, policy, and
planning.
Originally published in 1988. Leading international researchers in
regional economic development have contributed an integrated set of
chapters reviewing the whole field and taking stock of current
thinking. The book is in honour of Francois Perroux, the father of
regional development theory, whose contributions to two important
concepts in economics - time and space - have been substantial. The
book comprises five parts. Part one covers Perroux's work in
general and on growth poles in particular. Part two deals with 'the
politics of place', population and regional development, techniques
for regional policy analysis and a neoclassical approach to
regional economics. In part three the Canadian scene is reviewed at
national and regional levels. In part four chapters on urban
development, small and medium-size cities, and capital grants deal
with the experiences of other countries. Part five concludes the
book with a chapter on growth poles, optimal size of cities, and
regional disparities and government intervention.
Throughout the world today former nation-states, as disparate as
Yugoslavia, Somalia, and Canada, have either disintegrated or
threaten to splinter into regions. The conflicts are economic,
social, ethnic, linguistic, religious, political, and cultural.
Higgins and Savoie analyze the reasons for these conflicts and show
why attempts to eliminate regional disparities within nations have
been largely unsuccessful. This volume is a highly readable,
comprehensive survey of the literature and current debates in the
fields of regional economics, development, policy, and planning.
Inspired by the realization that, in most countries, the commitment
to regional development is determined by national ideological
swings rather than the socio-economic conditions in a particular
region (here meaning an area smaller than a country). Surveys and
evaluates the history of regional polic
Center For International Studies, Massachusetts Institute Of
Technology.
Additional Editors Are Agnese N. Lockwood And Dorothy Dodge.
An Address Delivered At The Fourth Of The Second Series Of
Conferences Of The Institute On The General Subject Postwar Goals
And Economic Reconstruction, Series 2, No. 4, October 27, 1943.
Economic development has been an challenge facing the countries of
Latin America. Because the United States, from the very nature of
its geographic and economic relationship with its southern
neighbors, must inevitably exercise a strong influence on the
course which that development takes, it is important that North
Americans understand conditions in Latin America and the attitudes
of its peoples. Roberto de Oliveira Campos, former Brazilian
Minister of Economic Planning, is in a unique position to evaluate
both past accomplishments and future problems. In this group of
essays, Campos gives a comprehensive analysis of many aspects of
Latin American development in the mid-twentieth century. He
examines relations between the United States and Latin America from
a variety of angles, and he outlines the basic problems of economic
development, of governmental policy, and of public and private
administration. He gives particular attention in several essays to
the relationship of foreign trade and foreign aid to economic
development, and he presents a long discussion of the Alliance for
Progress-its history, its purposes, its accomplishments, and its
failures. Campos's philosophy regarding the role of the state in
economic development and other questions emerges clearly from these
pithy essays. "The valid distinction I see on the basis of my
analysis of men and things is between pragmatic or functional
nationalists and romantic or temperamental nationalists," he
writes. "The latter confuse intention with results. They start with
enthusiasm and end in fanaticism, this being, according to
Santayana, 'the art of redoubling efforts after losing sight of
objectives.' . . . Many [romantic nationalists], though they do not
confess it, favor the dangerous purgery of revolution. "The
pragmatic nationalist seeks to operate within the frame of
democratic institutions and prefers reform to revolution. As to
myself, I shall continue considering myself a pragmatic
nationalist. I renounce the temptation of mobilizing resentment in
order to gain the authority to plan development. I would rather
strengthen the national entrepreneur than merely antagonize the
foreigner. I would want the state not to do what it cannot do in
order to do what it should do. I prefer to love my own country
rather than to hate the others'."
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