...Edward Tower; John Gilbert A Golden Jubilee Note on Graaff’s Optimum Tariff Structures Edward Tower and John Gilbert The year 1999 marked the golden jubilee of the publication of Jan de V. Graaff’s (1949) influential analysis of the optimum tariff, so it seems reasonable to appropriate...

...Jan Graaff Optimal Tariffs Revisited Jan Graaff This issue of HOPE contains two contributions commenting on a paper I wrote over fifty years ago. One is by Murray Kemp and Koji Shimo- mura; the other, by Ed Tower and John Gilbert. Both are incisive and sympathetic. I have been asked...

... or otherwise distorted. Subject to those qualifications, the existence of a nonnull optimal tariff vector was accepted with remarkably little dissents.1 The calm was disturbed when, fifty years ago, Jan de V. Graaff (1949, 53) suggested that free trade might be the most advantageous commer- cial policy...

...: Academic Press, 1989. 283 pp. $35.00. This book, a reprint of the Nicholas Kaldor Memorial Issue of the Cambridge Journal of Economics (vol. 13, no. I), contains seventeen papers by distin- guished scholars, including the late Sir John Hicks, Jan de Van Graaff, Luigi Pasinetti, James Tobin...

... Robert W. 1952b . “ Mr. Graaff’s Producer-Consumer Theory: A Restatement and Correction ” The Review of Economic Studies 20 ( 1 ): 84 – 85 . Clower Robert W. 1952c . “ Professor Duesenberry and Traditional Theory .” The Review of Economic Studies 13 ( 3 ): 165 – 78...

... of Measuring Marginal Utility . Tübingen: Verlag von J. C. B. Mohr. Gale , David , and Hukukane Nikaido. 1965 . The Jacobian Matrix and Global Univalence of Mappings. Mathematische Annalen 159 : 81 -93. Graaff , J. de V. 1949 . On Optimum Tariff Structures Review of Economic Studies 17...

... in the many books and articles on welfare economics that appeared in the 1950s and 1960s (Boulding 1957; Koopmans 1957; De V. Graaff 1957; Little 1957; Baumol 1965), and yet by 1970 or thereabouts, these labels had become canonical (Varian 1987, 510–17; Layard and Walters 1978, 26). Correspondence...

... of Welfare Economics (1947), Paul Samuelson s Foundations of Economic Analysis (1947), I. M. D. Little s Critique of Welfare Economics (1950), J. De V. Graaff s Theoretical Wel- fare Economics (1957), and Francis Bator s The Simple Analytics of Welfare Maximization (1957). Lange (1937) argued...

...: Oxford University Press. Graaff , J. de v. , 1957 . Theoretical Welfare Economics . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Houghton , R. W. , 1958 . “A Note on the Early History of Consumer's Surplus.” Economica , N. S., 25 : 49 -57. Mishan , E. J. , 1960 . “A Survey of Welfare...