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Acceleration Incentives and X-Efficiency

In: Econometrics and Economic Theory

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  • William J. Baumol

    (Princeton University
    New York University)

Abstract

Subsidies and taxes have long commended themselves as devices for the modification of incentives, both in the world of the designer of public policy and in the more abstract realm of economic analysis. The obvious arrangement for their use involves a payment, positive or negative, that varies directly with some measure of contribution. Thus, if social policy calls for the stimulation of exports, subsidy payments are proportioned to a firm’s export volume, etc. In this way it is hoped to strengthen the workings of the invisible hand as an instrument of social policy, making it more nearly true that ‘what is good for General Motors is good for the country’.

Suggested Citation

  • William J. Baumol, 1974. "Acceleration Incentives and X-Efficiency," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Willy Sellekaerts (ed.), Econometrics and Economic Theory, chapter 8, pages 167-175, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-01936-6_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-01936-6_8
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