Contents -- Preface -- Notes on the Contributors -- John C. Weldon (1922-87): An Appreciation -- The Publications of John C. Weldon -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Economics: The Trunk and the Branches -- 3 The Rise and Fall of the Public Sector in the Estimation of the Economists -- 4 Group Self-interest: The Positive Analysis of Cooperative Behaviour -- 5 Probability and Rationality in Economics -- 6 On the Publicness of Fiat Money -- 7 The Role of Information in Trade Theory -- 8 Metzler's Tariff Paradox and the Transfer Problem -- 9 On Models of the Wheat Boom in Canadian Economic History -- 10 Can We Avoid Another Great Depression? -- 11 The Rise of Unemployment since the 1950s -- 12 Public Pensions: A Social Response or a Misuse of Individual Saving? -- 13 Intergenerational Redistribution -- 14 Pension Reform and Elderly Women: Some Evidence for Ontario Urban Centres -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.