Dan Usher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3713626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan Usher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan |
| FAMILY NAME | Usher |
| SIGNATURE | USHER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
An alternative explanation of the chance of casting a pivotal vote
Uncertainty about the outcome of elections is commonly represented by person-by-person randomization, where people's probabilities of voting for the left party in a left-right contest are assumed to be uncorrelated but the same. An alternative representation of uncertainty about the outcome of elections relies upon nation-wide randomization shifting the entire schedule of voters' monetary valuations for one party over the other, up or down, and a…
Property rights, the social contract and the requirements for democratic government: Reflections on The Calculus of Consent
Bargaining unexplained
Bargaining and voting
The Reform of Equalization Payments
A reasonable and fair interpretation of the mandate for equalization payments in Section 36(2) of the Canadian Constitution would differ from the present equalization formula in these respects: (a) transfers to the poorer provinces would be financed by transfers from the richer provinces rather than from the federal government; (b) entitlement to equalization payments would depend on provincial income rather than on a tax-by-tax comparison of the…
Assessing the citizen – candidate model
The Colour of the Judge's Eyes: Efficiency as a Criterion for the Legislature and for the Courts
The Referendum Papers: Essays on Secession and National Unity
The Razor-Thin Outcome of the October 1995 Referendum in Quebec was a jarring wake-up call for English Canada, forcing Canadians outside Quebec to confront the unthinkable. This collection of papers by leading academics and analysts offers the most thorough examination yet of the main issues arising for the country out of the October referendum. It considers not only what might be done to help the country survive, but what should be done if it do…
The Stakeholder Society
Retooling the Welfare State: What's Right, What's Wrong and What's to Be Done
Property Rights and the Defence of Nature
The Uneasy Case for Equalization Payments
The Interests of English Canada
Recognition of conflicts of interest between French Canadians in Quebec and English Canadians in the rest of Canada is a necessary first step in the evaluation of proposals from Quebec for the refrom of the Canadian constitution, as well as for the design of institutions for an entirely English-speaking country in the event that Quebec secedes. Interests differ about the scope of bilingualism, public recognition of cultural diversity and the divi…
Home Game: [Comments on 'the Interests of English Canada']: A Reply
Victimization, rent-seeking and just compensation
The Welfare Economics of Markets, Voting and Predation
The Welfare Economics of Markets, Voting and Predation
Journal Article The Welfare Economics of Markets, Voting and Predation Get access The Welfare Economics of Markets, Voting and Predation. By Usher (Dan). (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992. Pp. xxi + 487. £50.00 hardback. ISBN 0 7190 3433 7.) John Bonner John Bonner University of Leicester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 104, Issue 424, 1 May 1994, Pages 694–696, ht…
Europe
Economics
Commodities and Capabilities
1. Interest, Well-being and Advantage. 2. Commodities and Their Use. 3. Utility, Desire and Happiness. 4. Functioning and Well-being. 5. Valuation and Ranking. 6. Information and Interpretation. 7. Well-being and Advantage. Appendix A: Some International Comparisons. Appendix B: Well-being and Sex Bias in India. Subject Index. Name Index
The distribution of income in a despotic society
The Economic Prerequisite to Democracy
The Economic Prerequisite to Democracy
The Economic Prerequisite to Democracy
Economics
Public Property and the Effects of Migration upon Other Residents of the Migrants' Countries of Origin and Destination
When a man migrates from one country to another, he abandons his share of public property--the use of roads and schools, the rights to a share of revenue from minerals in the public domain, and so on--in the former country and acquires a share of public property in the latter, conferring a benefit upon the remaining residents of the country from which he comes and imposing a cost upon the original residents of the country to which he goes. This p…
Commodities and Capabilities
1. Interest, Well-being and Advantage. 2. Commodities and Their Use. 3. Utility, Desire and Happiness. 4. Functioning and Well-being. 5. Valuation and Ranking. 6. Information and Interpretation. 7. Well-being and Advantage. Appendix A: Some International Comparisons. Appendix B: Well-being and Sex Bias in India. Subject Index. Name Index
The Welfare Economics of Markets, Voting and Predation
Journal Article The Welfare Economics of Markets, Voting and Predation Get access The Welfare Economics of Markets, Voting and Predation. By Usher (Dan). (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992. Pp. xxi + 487. £50.00 hardback. ISBN 0 7190 3433 7.) John Bonner John Bonner University of Leicester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 104, Issue 424, 1 May 1994, Pages 694–696, ht…
The distribution of income in a despotic society
The Measurement of Economic Growth
Bargaining unexplained
Some Questions about the Regional Development Incentives Act
The Regional Development Incentives Act empowers the Department of Regional Economic Expansion to subsidize firms for investing in the less developed regions of Canada. Though it does not specify in detail how the recipients of subsidies are to be chosen or how large subsidies are to be, the Act contains the curious clause that 'no development incentive may be authorized ... if ... it is probable that the facility would be established ... without…
Assessing the citizen – candidate model
Bargaining and voting
The Reform of Equalization Payments
A reasonable and fair interpretation of the mandate for equalization payments in Section 36(2) of the Canadian Constitution would differ from the present equalization formula in these respects: (a) transfers to the poorer provinces would be financed by transfers from the richer provinces rather than from the federal government; (b) entitlement to equalization payments would depend on provincial income rather than on a tax-by-tax comparison of the…
Retooling the Welfare State: What's Right, What's Wrong and What's to Be Done
The Interests of English Canada
Recognition of conflicts of interest between French Canadians in Quebec and English Canadians in the rest of Canada is a necessary first step in the evaluation of proposals from Quebec for the refrom of the Canadian constitution, as well as for the design of institutions for an entirely English-speaking country in the event that Quebec secedes. Interests differ about the scope of bilingualism, public recognition of cultural diversity and the divi…
Victimization, rent-seeking and just compensation
How Should the Redistributive Power of the State Be Divided between Federal and Provincial Governments
D. Usher, How Should the Redistributive Power of the State Be Divided between Federal and Provincial Governments?, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Winter, 1980), pp. 16-29
The Welfare Economics of Invention
This essay is not an attempt to analyse or assess the whole complex of forces that cause the market for inventions to function in a suboptimal manner. In spite of the obvious practical relevance of risk, a model of the market for inventions is constructed here on the assumption of perfect foresight. Furthermore, no allowance is made for conventional investment or technical change other than a single invention, nor for the subtle relations among t…
The Transport Bias in Comparisons of National Income
It is generally recognized that the usual method of comparing national income-conversion by the foreign exchange rate into U.S. dollars (or other common currency) per capita-exaggerates differences in living standards between rich and poor countries. This recognition has led many authors to make comparisons of national income at a uniform set of prices. The major landmarks are the work of Colin Clark,2 Kuznets,3 and Gilbert and Kravis.4 The resul…
The Transport Bias in Comparisons of National Income
It is generally recognized that the usual method of comparing national income-conversion by the foreign exchange rate into U.S. dollars (or other common currency) per capita-exaggerates differences in living standards between rich and poor countries. This recognition has led many authors to make comparisons of national income at a uniform set of prices. The major landmarks are the work of Colin Clark,2 Kuznets,3 and Gilbert and Kravis.4 The resul…
The Welfare Economics of Invention
This essay is not an attempt to analyse or assess the whole complex of forces that cause the market for inventions to function in a suboptimal manner. In spite of the obvious practical relevance of risk, a model of the market for inventions is constructed here on the assumption of perfect foresight. Furthermore, no allowance is made for conventional investment or technical change other than a single invention, nor for the subtle relations among t…
"Equalising Differences" in Income and the Interpretation of National Income Statistics
Our views about the nature of underdeveloped countries, and our designation of some countries as developed and others as not, are to a great extent conditioned by national income statistics; yet the statistics for most of these countries have three paradoxical features. (a) Despite the large population growth, income measured in the usual way in U.S. dollars per capita is well below a minimum necessary to sustain human life in the United States. …
Political Risk
Income as a Measure of Productivity: Alternative Comparisons of Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Productivity in Thailand
Low productivity of agriculture as compared with productivity of other sectors of the economy is often alleged to be an undesirable condition in underdeveloped countries, because it signifies a misallocation of resources; if productivity of labour is lower in agriculture than in manufacturing and if the difference is not just due to amounts of co-operating factors, then the national income could be increased and people made more prosperous by tra…
Thai interest rates∗
Income as a Measure of Productivity: A Reply
An Introduction to National Income Analysis
W. Beckerman. An Introduction to National Income Analysis.B. Van Arkadie and C. Frank Economic Accounting and Development PlanningD. Usher. The Price Mechanism and the Meaning of National Income Statistics An Introduction to National Income Analysis. By W. Beckerman. (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968. Pp. x + 247. 35s.)Economic Accounting and Development Planning. By B. Van Arkadie and C. Frank, with the assistance of C. Russell. (Nairobi an…
The Price Mechanism and the Meaning of National Income Statistics
Some Questions about the Regional Development Incentives Act
The Regional Development Incentives Act empowers the Department of Regional Economic Expansion to subsidize firms for investing in the less developed regions of Canada. Though it does not specify in detail how the recipients of subsidies are to be chosen or how large subsidies are to be, the Act contains the curious clause that 'no development incentive may be authorized ... if ... it is probable that the facility would be established ... without…
The economics of tax incentives to encourage investment in less developed countries
Public Property and the Effects of Migration upon Other Residents of the Migrants' Countries of Origin and Destination
When a man migrates from one country to another, he abandons his share of public property--the use of roads and schools, the rights to a share of revenue from minerals in the public domain, and so on--in the former country and acquires a share of public property in the latter, conferring a benefit upon the remaining residents of the country from which he comes and imposing a cost upon the original residents of the country to which he goes. This p…
[Will Federal Centralization Help the Poor?]: A Reply
How Should the Redistributive Power of the State Be Divided between Federal and Provincial Governments
D. Usher, How Should the Redistributive Power of the State Be Divided between Federal and Provincial Governments?, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Winter, 1980), pp. 16-29
The Measurement of Economic Growth
The Measurement of Capital
Journal Article The Measurement of Capital Get access The Measurement of Capital. Edited by Dan Usher. (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1980. Pp. ix + 997. $52.00, £24.00.) Alan Armstrong Alan Armstrong University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 91, Issue 361, 1 March 1981, Pages 251–253, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231720 Published: 01 March 1981
The Economic Prerequisite to Democracy
The Economic Prerequisite to Democracy
Economics
The Economic Prerequisite to Democracy
Commodities and Capabilities
1. Interest, Well-being and Advantage. 2. Commodities and Their Use. 3. Utility, Desire and Happiness. 4. Functioning and Well-being. 5. Valuation and Ranking. 6. Information and Interpretation. 7. Well-being and Advantage. Appendix A: Some International Comparisons. Appendix B: Well-being and Sex Bias in India. Subject Index. Name Index
The distribution of income in a despotic society
Europe
Economics
The Welfare Economics of Markets, Voting and Predation
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