One: History of the Development of the Mutual Fund Industry -- Investment Companies -- Pre-1940 -- 1940 to 1970 -- 1970 to the Present -- Conclusions -- Two: Regulation of the Mutual Fund Industry -- Background -- Investment Company Act of 1940 -- The 1970 Amendments -- Recent Regulatory...

One The Control and Performance of State-Owned Enterprises -- Comments -- Two The Performance and Management of United States Federal Government Corporations -- Comments -- Three Privatization at the State and Local Level -- Comments -- Four Privatization in Britain -- Comments -- A Narrative:...

One The Metals Price Collapse of the Early 1980s -- What are Prices? -- Specifying Price Determinants in an Equilibration Process -- Disequilibrium Price Behavior -- Two Explanatory Price Equations -- The Price Level Equation -- Demand Contraction -- Exchange Rates and Inventories -- Supply...

1 Introduction -- Alternative Approaches to Money Stock Control -- Money Multiplier Forecasting -- Goals and Organization -- Summary of Results and Conclusions -- 2 The Money Multiplier Framework -- Derivation of Pre-1980 Money Multipliers -- Derivation of Post-1980 Money Multipliers --...

1 Understanding 1929–1933 -- 2 Monetarist Interpretations of the Great Depression: An Evaluation and Critique -- 3 Notes on the Causes of the Great Depression -- 4 Comments on “Understanding 1929–1933” -- 5 Comments on “Monetarist Interpretations of the Great Depression” -- 6...

1 Analyzing Government -- Two Approaches to Analyzing Government -- The Interest-Group Theory of Government -- Plan of the Study -- Notes -- 2 Questions to be Answered -- Wealth Transfers and Organization Costs -- The “Market” for Wealth Transfers -- What This Analysis Is Not About -- What...

The Economic Tradition: Economics as a Research Programme for Theoretical Social Science -- Milton Friedman in Our Time -- Development Economics: Intellectual Barbarism -- A Hobbesian Interpretation of the Rawlsian Difference Principle -- Galbraithian Economics: The Methodology and Political...