Technology, Organization and Economic Structure Essays in Honor of P

The essays in this volume were presented to Professor Isamu Yamada in honor of his seventy-third birthday. In view of his many professional contributions and associations, a single volume of essays is really insufficient to house the works of all those wh

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210 Technology, Organization and Economic Structure Essays in Honor of Prof. Isamu Yamada

Edited by Ryuzo Sato and Martin J. Beckmann

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York 1983

Editorial Board

H. Albach A.V. Balakrishnan M. Beckmann (Managing Editor) p. Dhrymes J. Green W. Hildenbrand W. Krelle (Managing Editor) H. P. KOnzi K. Ritter R. Sato U. Schittko P. Schonfeld R. Selten Managing Editors

Prof. Dr. M. Beckmann Brown University Providence, RI 02912, USA Prof. Dr. W. Krelle Institut fUr Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften der Universitat Bonn Adenauerallee 24-42, 0-5300 Bonn, FRG Editors

Prof. Ryuzo Sato Department of Economics Brown University, Providence RI 02912, USA and

J. F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Prof. Martin J. Beckmann Department of Economics, Brown University Providence, RI 02912, USA

ISBN-13: 978-3-540-11998-2 e-ISBN-13: 978-3-642-48327-1 001: 10.1007/978-3-642-48327-1 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved. whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically those of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, broadcasting, reproduction by photocopying machine or similar means, and storage in data banks. Under § 54 of the German Copyright Law where copies are made for other than private use, a fee is payable to ·Verwertungsgesellschaft Wort", Munich.

© by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heid"elberg 1983 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1983 Printing and binding: Beltz Offsetdruck, Hemsbach/Bergstr. 2142/3140-543210

CONTENTS

v

List of Contributors Ryuzo Sato Martin J. Beckmann PART I:

ORGANIZATION:

Preface

VII

MICRO AND MACRO

1

Martin J. Beckmann

Production Functions in the Analysis of Organizational Structure

2

Yoshio Niho Robert A. Musacchio

Revenue Maximization and Optimal Capital Policies of a Regulated Firm

15

Seiichiro Saitow

The Characteristics of Japanese Enterprises and their Financing

27

Michael Nacht

Public Management: How do you do it?

41

Keizo Nagatani

Macroeconomic Foundations of' Macroeconomics

51

Martin Bronfenbrenner

Notes on Reaganomics

64

PART II:

Does it Exist?

ECONOMIC STRUCTURE

78

Hugo Sonnenschein

Economics of Incentives: An Introductory Account

79

Hanjiro Haga Akio Matsumoto

Economic Equilibrium under Price Rigidities and Quantity Constraints

93

Yasu Hosomatsu

A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for a Continuously Rational Social Choice

Haruo Ogawa Gilbert S. Suzawa Yoshimasa Kurabayashi Itsuo Sakuma

103

The Behavior of Resource Explorating Firm Under Stochastic World 115 Note on the Kakwani and Podder Method of Fitting Lorenz Curves 122 Alternative Matrix Consistent Methods of Multilateral Comparisons for Real Product and Prices 127

IV

PART III:

142

TECHNOLOGY

Mineo Ikeda

Differentiable Manifolds and Economic Structures 143

Haruo Kataoka

On the Local Conservation Laws in the Von Neumann Model 156

Koji Inada

Economic Growth and Biased Technical Change: The Japanese Experience

164

Thomas Russell

Notes on