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Removing Tariffs on Goods Originating from Least Developed Countries

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2003

This paper was one input to the Australian Government’s decision to remove tariffs on imports from the least developed countries. The Commission’s analysis suggests that removing tariffs on imports from these countries could significantly boost imports from these countries, particularly of...

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Trade policy, cross-border externalities and lobbies: do linked agreements enforce more cooperative outcomes?

Limão, Nuno - EconWPA - 2002

If, in international agreements, governments “link'' trade to environmental policy (or other issues with non-pecuniary externalities), will this promote more cooperation in both policies or will cooperation in one policy be strengthened at the expense of the other? We analyze this question in...

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Staying Competitive in the High-tech Global Economy: Another Look at the H-1B Visa

Cynamon, Barry - EconWPA - 2001

This paper addresses a specific suggestion for immigration reform—that we must seek skilled immigrants—by examining support for a move to unlimited H-1B visa issuance. Great care is taken to include up to date media coverage as immigration policy is greatly affected by public opinion. This...

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Trade and Turnover: Theory and Evidence

Davidson, Carl; Matusz, Steven - EconWPA - 2005

Is the pattern of trade correlated with cross-sector differences in job turnover? Theoretically, external shocks feed through to changes in domestic employment and cross-sector differences in turnover give rise to compensating wage differentials, which feed through to output prices. Using two...

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Money, Interest, and Capital Accumulation in Karl Marx’s

Hein, Eckhard - EconWPA - 2005

. Money as a social representative of value, therefore, is introduced at the very beginning of Marx’s microeconomics. Marx …’s rejection of Ricardo’s interpretation of Say’s Law requires that money as a means of circulation and as a means of payment is … realisation of profits for the capitalist class as a whole requires money advances, which have to increase by means of rising …

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New Trade Theory Takes Over Monetary Theory

Gani, M - EconWPA - 2004

money has nothing to do with traded output, but everything to do with storing value. But now a new trade theory takes over … monetary theory, by reducing money into a mere tool of trade, as just a means of payment. It takes over theory of exchange … arbitrage, and payments through seigniorage (by creating and issuing money). Suddenly economics studies economy rather than …

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Inside the Economist's Mind: The History of Modern Economic Thought, as Explained by Those Who Produced It

Barnett, William A.; Samuelson, Paul A.; Weintraub, E. Roy - EconWPA - 2005

This is the front matter from a book of interviews to be published by Blackwell. The book is coedited by W. A. Barnett and P. A. Samuelson. The front matter includes the Table of Contents, Coeditor Preface by W. A. Barnett, Coeditor Foreword by Paul A. Samuelson, and History of Thought...

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KALECKI'S THEORY OF INCOME DETERMINATION: A RECONSTRUCTION AND AN ASSESSMENT

Chilosi, Alberto - EconWPA - 2003

The paper considers the legacy for modern macroeconomics of Kalecki’s theory of income determination. The latter is reconstructed in its analytical constituent parts referring in detail to the original sources. The critical appraisal of its historical relevance is made from the vantage point...

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An Interview with Paul A. Samuelson

Barnett, William A.; Samuelson, Paul A. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper consists of the page proofs of W. A. Barnett's interview of Paul A. Samuelson, to appear in print in the journal, Macroeconomic Dynamics, in September 2004. To our knowledge, this is the first and only interview of Paul A. Samuelson published in a professional economics journal. In...

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Scientific Revolution. A Farewell to EconWPA.

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

A revolution in economics. Is it possible? Is its concept a transition from ideal to real economics? The way to the transition may be a new aspect of uncertainty. Problems, which can be solved, research fields, which can be augmented or created, and fields of applications in practical economy...

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