A compilation of papers given at a Conference of the International Economic Association analyze the world-wide experiences of incomes policy when, in the 1970s and early 1980s, this was seen as a crucial target for government.

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List of Contributors - Introduction; V.L.Urquidi - PART 1 THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS - Theoretical Issues in Size Income Distribution Policy; J.Hartog & J.M.M.Ritzen - The Problems of Indexation; J.Williamson - PART 2 MACROECONOMIC POLICY AND INCOMES POLICIES - The Inflation-Unemployment Trade-off; W.Beckerman - Comment; L.Pasinetti - Balance of Payments Management and Incomes Policy; L.A.Rojo - Comment; M.R.Fisher - The Role of Incomes Policies in the Adjustment Process of Debtor Countries; A.Buira - Comment; S.Borner - IMF Views on the Role of Incomes Policies in the External Adjustment Strategies of Developing Countries; E.W.Robichek - PART 3 COUNTRY EXPERIENCES - Incomes Policies: the British Experience; S.Wadhwani - The Rationale of a Prices and Incomes Policy: the Case of France; C.Jessua - Wage Policy in a High-Inflation Economy: The Israeli Experience; Y.Artstein & Z.Sussman - Recent Australian Experience with Consensual Incomes Policies; J.Lloyd - Comment; A.Ize - Distribution According to labour Input Under Socialism: Solved and Unsolved Problems; O.Bogomolov - Comment; S.Zamagni - Hungary's Living Standard Policy; B.Csik s-Nagy - Comment; R.Bentzel - Incomes Policies and the Developing Countries: the African Experience with Special Reference to Nigeria; H.M.A.Onitiri & A.Owosekun - Comment; A.B.Taylor - Index