Economists in government
Subtitle: an international comparative study
By: edited by A.W. Coats.
Contributors: Coats, A. W. 1924-
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
Subjects: Government economists -- Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Outgrowth of two conferences, the first held April 2-7, 1977 at the Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy and the second held March 25-31, 1979 at the Inter-University Centre for Postgraduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.
Originally published without preface or index as vol 13:3 of the journal History of political economy.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / A.W. Coats; title: Britain, the rise of the specialists/ A.W. Coats; title: Australia, economists in a federal system / A. Petridis; title: India, the aftermath of empire / S. Ambirajan; title: Norway, the powerful servants / Trond Bergh; title: The United States, economists in a balkanized political system / William J. Barber; title: Israel, economists in a new state / Ephraim Kleiman; title: Hungary, economists in a socialist planning system / Egon Kemenes; title: Japan, the officer in charge of economic affairs / Ryutaro Komiya and Kozo Yamamoto; title: Italy, economists in a weak political system / Franco Ferraresi and Giuseppe Ferrari; title: Brazil, economists in a bureaucratic-authoritarian system / Paulo Roberto Haddad; title: Conclusions / A.W. Coats.