The paper presents a model of racial discrimination in a stylized two-sector dual economy model with direct foreign investment. Racial discrimination is analyzed both in terms of preferences and in terms of regulations that favor one ethnic group at the expense of another. The focus is on the...

This book deals with the economics of establishing a frontier by conquest or by peaceful settlement, the costs involved, and the optimum extension of the territory. The opening chapters discuss the most relevant literature about frontiers - conceptual, theoretical and empirical - and introduce...