This dissertation is about the competition among the economies of the sovereign nation-states and its impact on the optimality, from the point of view of the national government, of various economic policies. The competition among the economies of nation-states is reflected by any government (public) policy, regulation, or built-in institutional arrangement designed to influence the interaction of one economy with others. / A review of economic history is first presented to demonstrate that competition among the economies of sovereign countries has existed from the beginning of written history to the present. It changed throughout history in accordance with changing circumstances, but it has always been taking place in one form or another. Furthermore, its impact on the economies of independent states has always been substantial. / Based on this finding, the theoretical analysis is conducted to analyze the fundamental incentives which have caused governments to engage in international economic competition. The analysis reaches the conclusion that there have been numerous incentives for such behaviour of governments and thereby links the facts presented in the survey of economic history as well as the facts of current international economic interrelations to the theoretical contention that the incentive structure determines economic behaviour. / The next step in the inquiry is to analyze the effectiveness of various economic policies which, although frequently proposed in the economic literature, are derived from analyses that either exclude the phenomenon of competition among national economies, or treat this phenomenon in an oversimplified and unrealistic fashion. Through an empirical investigation focusing mainly on the period of the 1970's, it is demonstrated that such policies could not effectively deal with economic difficulties which are not strictly of domestic origin and nature. Some of those policies can be used to achieve short-term relief, but additional steps are required to counter the economic factors having an international scope if more than temporary relief is intended. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-12, Section: A, page: 3751. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75254 |
| Contributors | SHNAIDER, ELIAHU., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 327 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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