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Analyse der Rolle des Individuums in den Wirtschaftstheorien und im wirtschaftlichen Verhalten. Individualismus scheint der zentrale Punkt in der Theorie des Austausches zu sein, weniger aber in den Produktionstheorien. Westliche Firmen, in denen Individualismus eine Rolle spielt, werden japanischen gegenübergestellt, in denen Individualismus unterdrückt wird oder nicht vorkommt. - Dieses Papier wurde der International Conference on Reconstructing Individualism, Stanford University, Februar 1984, vorgelegt. (DÜI-Xyl)

Intro -- Contents -- 1 Neoclassical Theory and Development Economics -- Relations Between Various Chapters -- 2 General X-Efficiency Theory -- General Structure of the Theory -- Selective Rationality -- Principal-Agent Relations and Effort Choice -- The Theory of Inert Areas and Effort Entropy -- On Effort Equilibria -- Effort Decisions and X-Efficiency -- 3 Entrepreneurship and Development -- Entrepreneurship: Its Role in Economic Theory -- The Demand for Entrepreneurship-Opportunities for Entrepreneurial Development -- The Demand for Entrepreneurship-X-Efficiency and the Supply of Entrepreneurial Capacity -- What Does the Entrepreneur Get? -- The Demand for Entrepreneurship-The Interaction of Opportunities and Capacities -- The Supply of Entrepreneurship -- Consequences and Applications -- Policy Implications and Conclusions -- 4 Agricultural Surplus Labor -- Background and Review of Existing Literature -- The Basic Productivity-Effort Model -- The Peak Labor Demand Argument -- The Utility of Work as a Consideration -- The Case of Employed Labor -- Considerations and Conclusions -- 5 Migration and Urban Unemployment -- Migration and Economic Motivation -- The Employment Absorption Problem -- A Simple Urban Labor Market Model -- Alternative Wage-Offer Functions -- Effort and Choice of Technique -- 6 Savings, Investment, and Development -- Actual versus Potential Growth Rates -- Savings, Investment Absorption, and X-Inefficiency -- Investment Absorption Problems -- Locked-In Techniques, Locked-Out Techniques, and X-Efficiency of Labor -- 7 Population Growth and the Economic Theory of Fertility -- Population Growth and Fertility -- Development, Status Shifts, and Income Compression Effects -- Status Goods, Commitment Goods, and Other IMU Goods -- Commitment Claim Growth -- Interstatus Utility Differentials and the Cost of Children.