..., and convergence. More recently, the case for increasing foreign aid to sub-Saharan Africa has reemerged and has been linked to the Solow model via the hypothesis that many poor countries are caught in a poverty trap. This paper provides critical commentary on the literature relating to the Solow model, economic...

... hushållning . Stockholm: Bonnier. ____. [1919] 1949 . The Effect of Foreign Trade on the Distribution of Income. In Readings in the Theory of International Trade , edited by H. S. Ellis and L. A. Metzler, 272 -300. Philadelphia: Blakiston. ____. [1919] 1991 . The Effect of Foreign Trade...

... o 1981 by Duke University Press British thought on the influence of foreign trade and investment on growth, 1800-1880 Arthur I. Bloomfield, University of Pennsylvania I. Introduction A by-product of the postwar interest in the economics of growth has...

..., and was too strong to be removed. -JOSIAH TUCKER,1759 I. Introduction It was common in the period 1600-1800 for the state to grant monopoly rights to foreign trading companies. In defense of these grants, a substan- tial body...

...Michele Alacevich; Pier Francesco Asso We explore the foreign economic policy activities of Arthur I. Bloomfield, a prominent economist of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the 1940s and the 1950s. During the cold war, Bloomfield headed several missions to South East Asia, assisting local...

... mandate. In the immediate aftermath of World War I, Sun proposed the creation of an “International Development Organization” that could channel foreign capital to China in a manner that better respected the will of the Chinese people than private financiers had done. He also advanced arguments about why...

...Alfonso Expósito; Rocío Sánchez-Lissen This paper analyzes the work done by the economist Manuel de Torres Martínez (1903–1960), chair of economic theory at the University of Madrid, in the defense of an open economy model for Spain, through his prologues to the translations of foreign economics...

...Gerhard Michael Ambrosi In the pure theory of foreign trade, offer curves are still a well-known textbook device for analyzing conflicting interests between countries engaged in foreign trade. In his early days Alfred Marshall suggested that this analytical device be used also for industrial...

... in 1843 (when the first constitution was introduced), in 1863 (when a new king was appointed as head of the country) and in 1876-9 (when foreign lending was resumed after a long financial embargo against Greece). These interventions reveal a liberal economist who was a precursor in what is today known...

...Rosario Patalano In the 1750s, in the Italian states, the theme of monetary stability came to the center of public interest. In the Kingdom of Naples, particularly, the independence achieved under Charles of Bourbon stimulated many reform programs for the development and protection of foreign trade...

...Reinhard Schumacher Hla Myint interpreted Adam Smith's “two distinct benefits” from foreign trade as a vent-for-surplus gain and a productivity gain. This classification has been adopted widely, but the vent-for-surplus gain has caused some debates. In this article, I show that Myint's...

... and (trade-induced) opulence as two mutually alternative options and, if required to make a choice, he had no hesitation in choosing the former. By contrast, Ricardo excluded any such trade-off, arguing that even in the case of war or poor domestic harvest, foreign agricultural countries would be seriously...

... proposal in his 1815 pamphlet, Grounds of an Opinion . Malthus (1803) argued that the contemporary British unbalanced and manufacturing export–led growth pattern was not sustainable in the long term; accordingly, he proposed food self-sufficiency as a safer long-term policy option than free foreign corn...

... Hirschman's approach was rejected as more psychology than economics by a leading representative of detailed plans and removing “obstacles” such as short-ages of foreign exchange and domestic savings. Ironically, RAND psychologists had just shown that team training with simulations plus daily debriefings...

...Colin Danby James Meade played an important role in the 1951 development of the “Mark II” Newlyn-Phillips machine, including making it fit for connection to a mirror-image machine so that policy interactions between two countries could be demonstrated. In 1952 Phillips built, for Meade, a “foreign...

...-Catholic model outlined by Austria and Portugal. Then, we show that Perroux’s travels influenced his economic thought, both theoretically and methodologically. Eventually, the diagnostic he drew from his mid-1930s tour within foreign experiences will also help shed light on the way he welcomed and tried...

... industrial sectors and cut both their corn exports and their imports of foreign industrial goods. We critically assess Malthus’s views and compare them with Torrens 1815 and Ricardo 1822. We argue that the weak point of Malthus’s reasoning lies in his inability to perceive that an international trade-induced...

... the consequences of nationalizing telecommunication, AT&T assembled evidence from three domains, most notably foreign nations' experience with government ventures. Analyzing the Brief reveals how AT&T structured and popularized arguments that justified the anomalous place of telecommunication networks...

... speaking tours and his writings in the popular press, Fisher also provided much advice (much of it unsolicited, and not all of it welcome) to US and foreign governments on monetary reform, stabilization, public health, and world peace, and dabbled in politics. He also proposed a world map projection, a new...

...Keith Tribe The British Colonial Office was responsible for the administration of all the various elements of the British Empire (except India) from 1854 until its final merger with the Foreign Office in the mid-1960s, but only in the 1940s did it begin to take an active interest in social...