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Mind-forgd manacles: the constraints to optimising urban transport policy

Mind-forgd manacles: the constraints to optimising urban transport policy This paper begins with an exposition and interpretation of the welfare optimum, defined in neoclassical economic theory as a heuristic device and a guide to policy, rather than as a description of the real world. In this view, a dynamic real-world economy is necessarily at variance with Walrasian equilibrium