Surveys Of National Economic Policy Issues And Policy Research [antikvár]

FOREWORD The two surveys of national economic policy issues and policy research published in this Supplement to The American Economic Review are the first in a new series of studies of economics in foreign countries, commissioned by the Publications Committee of the American Economic Association and under the editorship of Harry G. Johnson. The previous series, edited by George W. Hildebrand, sought to acquaint Anglophone economists with the significant developments in economics since the Second World War in the national literatures of the major non-English-speaking countries. This series, by contrast, is directed at economic policy issues, and the controversies and research to which they have given rise, in countries selected for one or more of three reasons: the intrinsic interest of the policy issues, the relevance of the policy issues to current policy issues in the United States, and the interest of the countries themselves as areas of involvement of American foreign economic policy with which U.S. economists are likely to become concerned. Most appropriately, the first two surveys to be completed relate to countries which have long been concerned with the problem of what is currently conceived as "guidelines" or "incomes and prices" policy. In addition, Sweden is a recognized pioneer in social policy ("the poverty problem"), while Australia, as the dominant Anglo-Saxon country of the Pacific, has for various reasons been increasing in importance in U.S. trade and overseas investment. Subsequent Surveys will deal with a variety of developing and developed countries of special interest to American economists. Harry G. Johnson