Economics of Development and Planning : History, Principles, Problems and Practices

To get a proper understanding of present problems and policies an examination has been made of the views on economic development of important economists like Adam Smith, David Ricardo, T.R.

Malthus, John Stuart Mill, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, J.A.

Schumpeter, Sir Roy F. Harrod, Evsey Domar, Joan Violet Robinson, James E. Meade, P.C. Mahalanobis, Sir William Arthur Lewis, Harvey Leibenstein, Karl Gunnar Myrdal, Walt Whitman Rostow, etc.

Other subjects covered in the book include capital formation from domestic as well as foreign sources, capital-output ratio, population, unemployment, balanced and unbalanced growth, theory of 'big push', deficit financing, inflation, monetary and fiscal policy, fiscal deficit, role of State, foreign trade, input-output analysis, linear programming, project evaluation, choice of techniques, vicious circle of poverty, occupation structure, role of public enterprise, resource allocation, etc.