TY - BOOK AU - Hicks,John Richard TI - Essays in world economics AV - HC59 .H53 PY - 1959/// CY - Oxford PB - Clarendon Press KW - Economic policy KW - fast KW - Weltwirtschaft KW - gnd KW - Great Britain KW - Gran Bretaña KW - Política económica KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Politique économique KW - 1945- N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part 1. Britain and the world economy. World recovery after war (1947) -- Devaluation and world trade (1949) -- Free trade and modern economics (1951) -- The long-run dollar problem (1953) -- Economic foundations of wage policy (1955) -- The instability of wages (1956) -- A world inflation? -- Part 2. The underdeveloped. National economic development in the international setting -- Development under population pressure -- The case of Ceylon (1957) -- A chapter in federal finance -- The case of Nigeria (1950) -- Unimproved value rating -- The case of east Africa; Supplementary notes. The theory of wage differentials (1955) -- A further note on 'Import Bias' -- The factor-price equalization theorem; Also issued online ER -