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Macroeconomic Policy
On the Concept of Efficiency
Prabhat Patnaik

The concept of efficiency, as commonly used, is flawed. The neo-classical prescriptions for promoting efficiency are based on the assumption that the economy spontaneously achieves full employment of all resources. More often than not the private and the public sectors produce dissimilar goods. Besides the need for improving the 'efficiency' of production, which says nothing at all about income distribution, lacks any theoretical rationale.


 
January 23, 2003.

 
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