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Planning and Economic Growth (1965) is an analysis of the problem of unemployment in an over-populated, under-developed economy, and of the relation of investment to employment. It looks at the effect of planned economic development on relative prices, as well as dealing with certain international aspects of economic growth.

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Part 1. Growth and Employment 1. Tendencies in Economic Theory 2. Keynesian Economics and Under-developed Countries 3. On the Assumption of Unlimited Supply of Labour 4. Disguised Unemployment and Economic Development 5. Capital and Employment 6. Reflections on 'Take-off' 7. Approach to India's Third Five Year Plan 8. Introduction to the Third Plan 9. A Plea for a Bolder Plan 10. Thoughts on Public Finance Part 2. Relative Prices 11. The Use of Curves in the Analysis of Market Price 12. The Theory of Black Market Prices 13. Planned Economic Development and Relative Prices 14. The Choice of Technique Part 3. Foreign Balance 15. International Economic Imbalance 16. The Relation of Foreign Aid to Home Investment 17. Foreign Balance in a Developing Economy 18. Commercial Policy and Economic Growth Part 4. Teaching Economics 19. The Teaching of Economics 20. The Economic Adviser 21. Over-full Employment in the Economists' Sector 22. A Centre for Theoretical Economics 23. Economists and the Government 24. Why Lament for Economics? 25. Reflections on Higher Education in the Light of the Robbins Report