This book contains a collection of essays written by renowned economists on the occasion of Andras Brody's 70th birthday. Andras Brody has contributed to many fields of economics, including mathematical modelling, the theory of economic growth, marxian economics and input-output analysis. The essays contained in this book deal with new results in these and related fields, and cover both theoretical and empirical aspects. Among the topics being discussed are foundations of input-output analysis, methodologies for measuring economic growth and structural change, and normative aspects of economic behaviour. The book also includes a chapter on the extraordinary event of building an input-output table for the newly reunited Germany.

Foreword; W.Leontief - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; A.Simonovits & A.E.Steenge - Biography of Andras Brody - Publications of Andras Brody- Accounting for Duality and Circularity; M.Augusztinovics - Change as Economic Activity; A.P.Carter - Index Numbers and the Theory of Value; U-P.Reich - Current Uses of the Ras-technique: A Critical Review; K.R.Polenske - Bi-Regional Input-Output Proportions for Germany, First Results; R.Staglin - Analyzing Decomposition Analyses; E.Dietzenbacher & B.Los - Measuring the Productivity of Nations; P.Aulin-Ahmavaara - Equilibrium and Disequilibrium in a Disaggregated Classical Model; L.Halpern & G.Molnsr - Structural Economic Dynamics: Catching-Up and the Global Deflationary Bias; M.A.Landesmann, R.M.Goodwin & F.Stehrer - Complex Dynamics in Control Models with Bounds: A Review; A.Simonovits - Proportions, Growth and Cycles between Constant and Non-Constant Returns of Scale; M.Ciaschini - Brody's Capital; T.ten Raa - Towards a Tenable Concept of 'Warranted Supply'; F.Seton - The Elusive Standard Commodity; Eigenvectors as Standards of Value; A.E.Steenge - Joint Production in a Two-Sector Model; B.Horvat - Price Scheme Cones; I.Steedman - Production Prices and Proportions Revisited; E.Zalai - Index