Economic Models for Policy Making - 9781138901797

Taylor & Francis

Economic Models for Policy MakingPrinciples and Designs Revisited\nAuthor(s): Solomon Cohen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138901797, 978-1138901797\nSynopsis\nOver the past decades, many different kinds of models have been developed that have been of use to policy makers, but until now the different approaches have not been brought together with a view to enhancing the systematic unification and evaluation of these models. This new volume aims to fill this gap by bringing together four decades worth of work by S. I. Cohen on economic modelling for policy making. Work on older models has been rewritten and brought fully up to date, and these older models have therefore been brought back to the fore, both to assess how they influenced more recent models and to see how they could be used today.\n\nThe focus of the book is on models for development policies in developing economies, but there are some chapters tha.