Edwin G West
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768405 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edwin G West |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edwin G |
| FAMILY NAME | West |
| SIGNATURE | WEST E G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Private Versus Public Charity
Cost disease versus Leviathan explanations of rising government cost
Supplying and Financing Education
The cost disease and government growth
Adam Smith on the Cultural Effects of Specialization
Research Article| March 01 1996 Adam Smith on the Cultural Effects of Specialization: Splenetics versus Economics Edwin G. West Edwin G. West 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1996) 28 (1): 83–105. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-28-1-83 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon …
Federalism and the growth of government revisited
Joint Supply Theory before Mill
Research Article| June 01 1994 Joint Supply Theory before Mill Edwin G. West Edwin G. West Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1994) 26 (2): 267–278. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-26-2-267 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Edwin G. West; Joint Supply Theory before Mill. History of Political Economy 1 June 1994; 26 (2): 267–278. …
The Benthamites as Educational Engineers
Research Article| September 01 1992 The Benthamites as Educational Engineers: The Reputation and the Record Edwin G. West Edwin G. West 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1992) 24 (3): 595–621. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-24-3-595 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Edwin G. West; The Benthamites as Educational Engineers: The…
Measuring Returns from Education
Higher Education in Canada
Nonprofit organizations
Nonprofit versus profit firms in the performing arts
Subsidizing the Performing Arts
Arts Vouchers to Replace Grants
The annual jostling among arts producers for Arts Council grants is symptomatic of a regressive system which taxes the poor to subsidise the leisure of the better‐off Edwin West (right), Professor of Econmics at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, argues for a voucher system to subsidise the less‐well‐off individually, and examines how apprehensive art bureaucrats torpedoed a British pilot scheme
Public Aid to Ontario's Independent Schools
The real costs of tuition tax credits
Marx's Hypotheses on the Length of the Working Day
In order to argue that value depends exclusively on labor, Marx had to assume a uniform rate of surplus value (exploitation) across all industries. But if this rate of exploitation is the same everywhere, hours of work have also to be uniform. Marx accordingly insisted that this was so and quoted contemporary evidence in support. A close examination of his sources (nineteenth-century factory inspectors' reports) fails, however, to confirm his pre…
Minimum Wages
The Individual, Political Tension, and Canada's Quest for a New Constitution
Whatever else the move towards separatism in Canada has brought with it, the Canadian people have undoubtedly been given an unprecedented opportunity to go back to first principles concerning the nature of their constitution. In this vein we wish to consider two basic and related issues which threaten to be resolved at the expense of the individual's freedom from government, both federal and provincial. These are, first, what should be the meanin…
Federalism and the growth of government revisited
Adam Smith on the Cultural Effects of Specialization
Research Article| March 01 1996 Adam Smith on the Cultural Effects of Specialization: Splenetics versus Economics Edwin G. West Edwin G. West 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1996) 28 (1): 83–105. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-28-1-83 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon …
Private Versus Public Charity
Joint Supply Theory before Mill
Research Article| June 01 1994 Joint Supply Theory before Mill Edwin G. West Edwin G. West Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1994) 26 (2): 267–278. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-26-2-267 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Edwin G. West; Joint Supply Theory before Mill. History of Political Economy 1 June 1994; 26 (2): 267–278. …
Nonprofit organizations
The cost disease and government growth
The Individual, Political Tension, and Canada's Quest for a New Constitution
Whatever else the move towards separatism in Canada has brought with it, the Canadian people have undoubtedly been given an unprecedented opportunity to go back to first principles concerning the nature of their constitution. In this vein we wish to consider two basic and related issues which threaten to be resolved at the expense of the individual's freedom from government, both federal and provincial. These are, first, what should be the meanin…
Cost disease versus Leviathan explanations of rising government cost
Measuring Returns from Education
Marx's Hypotheses on the Length of the Working Day
In order to argue that value depends exclusively on labor, Marx had to assume a uniform rate of surplus value (exploitation) across all industries. But if this rate of exploitation is the same everywhere, hours of work have also to be uniform. Marx accordingly insisted that this was so and quoted contemporary evidence in support. A close examination of his sources (nineteenth-century factory inspectors' reports) fails, however, to confirm his pre…
The Individual, Political Tension, and Canada's Quest for a New Constitution
Whatever else the move towards separatism in Canada has brought with it, the Canadian people have undoubtedly been given an unprecedented opportunity to go back to first principles concerning the nature of their constitution. In this vein we wish to consider two basic and related issues which threaten to be resolved at the expense of the individual's freedom from government, both federal and provincial. These are, first, what should be the meanin…
Minimum Wages
Marx's Hypotheses on the Length of the Working Day
In order to argue that value depends exclusively on labor, Marx had to assume a uniform rate of surplus value (exploitation) across all industries. But if this rate of exploitation is the same everywhere, hours of work have also to be uniform. Marx accordingly insisted that this was so and quoted contemporary evidence in support. A close examination of his sources (nineteenth-century factory inspectors' reports) fails, however, to confirm his pre…
Public Aid to Ontario's Independent Schools
The real costs of tuition tax credits
Arts Vouchers to Replace Grants
The annual jostling among arts producers for Arts Council grants is symptomatic of a regressive system which taxes the poor to subsidise the leisure of the better‐off Edwin West (right), Professor of Econmics at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, argues for a voucher system to subsidise the less‐well‐off individually, and examines how apprehensive art bureaucrats torpedoed a British pilot scheme
Nonprofit versus profit firms in the performing arts
Subsidizing the Performing Arts
Higher Education in Canada
Nonprofit organizations
Measuring Returns from Education
The Benthamites as Educational Engineers
Research Article| September 01 1992 The Benthamites as Educational Engineers: The Reputation and the Record Edwin G. West Edwin G. West 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1992) 24 (3): 595–621. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-24-3-595 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Edwin G. West; The Benthamites as Educational Engineers: The…
Federalism and the growth of government revisited
Joint Supply Theory before Mill
Research Article| June 01 1994 Joint Supply Theory before Mill Edwin G. West Edwin G. West Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1994) 26 (2): 267–278. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-26-2-267 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Edwin G. West; Joint Supply Theory before Mill. History of Political Economy 1 June 1994; 26 (2): 267–278. …
The cost disease and government growth
Adam Smith on the Cultural Effects of Specialization
Research Article| March 01 1996 Adam Smith on the Cultural Effects of Specialization: Splenetics versus Economics Edwin G. West Edwin G. West 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1996) 28 (1): 83–105. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-28-1-83 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon …
Supplying and Financing Education
Cost disease versus Leviathan explanations of rising government cost
Private Versus Public Charity
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