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In 1900 the newly appointed Austrian prime minister, Ernest von Koerber, initiated a novel program of economic development designed to solve the political and economic problems of the Habsburg Monarchy. Ambitious and ingenious as the plan was, it proved a failure, and in this book Alexander Gerschenkron assesses its career and significance for both

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Do rich industrial nations underestimate the threat to their economic stability posed by demands for a new international economic order Are the developing countries wrong to assume that their economic advancement depends on a transfer of wealth from the richer nations Sir W. Arthur Lewis's provocative analysis of the present economic order and it

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Challenging such established ideas as the inevitability of the business cycle and the taboo on deficit spending, the group of economists associated with the Kennedy Council of Economic Advisers attempted in the 1960s to convert their theories into government policy. The successes, failures, elations. and frustrations of what came to be called the N

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Why does society oscillate between intense interest in public issues and almost total concentration on private goals This work offers a social, political, and economic analysis dealing with how and why frustrations of private concerns lead to public involvement and public participation that eventually lead back to those private concerns.