ECONOMIC PROGRAMMING AND THE VON NEUMANN MODEL: SOME PLANNING TECHNIQUES.

Abstract : The essays are concerned with generalizations, extensions, and applications of the von Neumann model. The essays all have in common a 'how to' approach: Chapter II shows how to decompose a von Neumann model or an input-output model and how von Neumann expansion rates can be easily found once the decomposition is known; Chapter III shows how to find the von Neumann path and expansion rate; Chapter IV shows how to get onto the von Neumann path on an optimal way given a fixed-time constraint; and Chapter V shows how to introduce consumption into the closed von Neumann model or at least one way of attempting to do so. (Author)