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Promising developments in technology transfer and intellectual property protection in Mexico
Einstein, Edwin F. - In: Proceedings (1991), pp. 123-137
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Urban legends
Clement, Douglas - In: The Region (2004) Sep, pp. 10-13
For centuries, economists have struggled to explain why people and businesses gather in cities.
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Structural change in Argentina, 1935–60: The role of import substitution and factor endowments
Debowicz, Dario; Segal, Paul - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
This paper investigates structural change in Argentina between 1935 and 1960, a period of rapid industrialization and … relative decline of agriculture was due to the policies of import-substituting industrialization (ISI). This was also the …
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Comment on Tollison’s contributions to economic history and the history of economic thought
Stephenson, Matthew - In: Public Choice 142 (2010) 3, pp. 481-483
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Engel’s Law Around the World 150 Years Later
Anker, Richard - Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University … - 2011
Engel’s law is relevant in today’s world by looking across countries at the relationship between the share of household … on data for almost every country and territory in the world. This facilitates analysis of the relationship between the …
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Introduction. "Before the Journey": Rossi-Doria and the United States
Bernardi, Emanuele - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2010) 2
The introduction describes the relationship between Rossi-Doria and the United States in the period preceding his first American trip, made in October 1951. In the 1930s Rossi-Doria was already engaged in detailed research on American agriculture; in the postwar period he looked to the United...
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Trade policy and income distribution
Leamer, Edward E. - In: Proceedings (1991), pp. 129-136
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Classical and neoclassical roots of the theory of optimum tariffs
Humphrey, Thomas M. - In: Economic Review (1987) Jul, pp. 17-28
Despite their image as free traders, six leading British classical and neoclassical economists formulated a valid theoretical argument for tariffs. They showed that a suitably small tariff could, under certain conditions, benefit the levying country by improving its terms of trade. They also...
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Institutions and government growth: a comparison of the 1890s and the 1930s
Garrett, Thomas A.; Rhine, Russell M. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2008
Statistics on the size and growth of the U.S. federal government, along with the rhetoric of President Franklin Roosevelt, seem to indicate that the Great Depression was the event that started the dramatic growth in government spending and intervention in the private sector that has continued to...
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Modern economic growth and recent stagnation
Baier, Scott L.; Gerald P. Dwyer, Jr.; Tamura, Robert - In: Economic Review (2003) Q3, pp. 45-62
output, input, and productivity per worker that were rare in previous centuries. Even so, a few regions of the world have … in the last two centuries. ; Using data for most countries in the world since the 1800s and early 1900s, the authors find … that (1) economic growth has improved the lives of people all around the world compared to those of their ancestors and (2 …
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