Foreword |
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Acknowledgments |
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The Format of the Book |
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Summary |
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1 The Basic Issues |
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2 Economic Policy in a Mixed Economy |
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3 Investment Policy as Optimization over Time |
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4 The Production and Valuation Assumptions |
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5 The Publicly Optimal Policy |
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6 Controllability with Fixed Savings Ratio in the Private Sector |
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7 Controllability with Perfectly Rational Consumers |
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8 Risk and the Rate of Return |
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9 Some Loose Ends |
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I Basic Concepts for the Theory of Public Investment |
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1 | (25) |
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1 The Special Nature of Social Investments |
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2 Decentralization and the Discount Factor Appropriate for Public Investments |
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3 The General Nature of Optimal Investment Policy |
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9 | (1) |
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10 | (4) |
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5 Some Basic Propositions of Neoclassical Growth Theory |
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14 | (12) |
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II Methods of Optimization over time |
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26 | (1) |
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1 Dynamic Programming: Discrete Time, Finite Horizon |
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2 Dynamic Programming: Discrete Time, Infinite Horizon |
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30 | (3) |
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3 Continuous Time, Finite Horizon: The Pontryagin Necessary Conditions |
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33 | (6) |
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4 Continuous Time, Finite Horizon: Constraints Involving the State Variables |
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39 | (4) |
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5 Continuous Time, Finite Horizon: The Sufficiency Theorem |
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43 | (2) |
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6 Continuous Time, Infinite Horizon |
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45 | (6) |
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7 Jumps in the State Variables |
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51 | (7) |
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III Optimal Investment Planning in a one-commodity Model |
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58 | (29) |
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58 | (1) |
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1 Optimization in the One-Sector Model: Informal Discussion |
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2 Optimization in the One-Sector Model: Application of the Pontryagin Maximum Principle |
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64 | (9) |
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3 Interpretations and Approximations |
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73 | (8) |
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4 Alternative Formulations of the Controls and Irreversibility of Investment |
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81 | (4) |
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85 | (2) |
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IV Optimal Investments in a two-sector Model |
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87 | (28) |
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87 | (1) |
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88 | (2) |
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2 Optimal Growth under Constant Returns to Scale: General Analysis |
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90 | (3) |
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3 Analysis of the Short-Run Equilibrium |
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93 | (2) |
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4 Analysis of the Optimal Path |
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95 | (11) |
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106 | (1) |
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107 | (3) |
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7 Irreversible Investment Decisions |
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110 | (1) |
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8 Increasing Returns to Scale |
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110 | (5) |
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V Objectives, Markets, and Public Instruments |
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115 | (13) |
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115 | (1) |
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1 Private and Social Objectives |
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116 | (1) |
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117 | (2) |
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3 Controllability by Public Instruments |
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119 | (2) |
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121 | (1) |
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5 The Accounting Identities of Resource Allocation and Public Policy |
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122 | (6) |
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VI Optimal Policy and Controllability with Imperfect Capital Markets |
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128 | (25) |
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128 | (1) |
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1 The General Framework of Fixed-Savings-Ratio Models |
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128 | (2) |
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2 Financing by Income Tax Alone: Controllability |
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130 | (1) |
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3 Financing by Income Tax Alone: General Analysis of the Second-Best Policy |
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131 | (3) |
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4 Financing by Income Tax Alone: Balanced Growth |
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134 | (4) |
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5 Financing by Income Tax Alone: Dynamic Analysis |
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138 | (6) |
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6 Financing Investment by Borrowing and Interest by Income Tax |
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144 | (4) |
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7 Balanced Budget with Consumption and Savings Taxes |
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148 | (1) |
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8 Financing by Borrowing and Taxes on Consumption and Savings |
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149 | (2) |
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9 Appropriability of Return on Government Capital |
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151 | (2) |
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VII Consumer Behavior in a Perfect Market |
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153 | (25) |
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153 | (2) |
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1 The Consumer's Feasibility Condition |
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155 | (5) |
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2 Some Boundedness Assumptions |
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160 | (2) |
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3 Private Sector Optimization and Some Implications |
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162 | (7) |
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169 | (9) |
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VIII Controllability of Public Policy in Perfect Capital Markets |
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178 | (31) |
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178 | (2) |
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1 Some General Characterizations of Controllability and Stability |
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180 | (7) |
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2 Controllability Without Taxes |
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187 | (1) |
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188 | (4) |
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192 | (3) |
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195 | (4) |
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199 | (1) |
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7 Controllability of Both Allocation and Debt With Two Taxes: General Considerations |
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200 | (1) |
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8 Controllability With a Tax on Wages and One Other Tax |
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201 | (2) |
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9 Controllability With Two Taxes, Neither on Wages |
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203 | (3) |
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206 | (3) |
Bibliography |
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209 | (6) |
Index |
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