This paper uses both the cross-section and panel data approaches to study regional growth in China.

Geroski and Walters (1995) conclude that changes in manufacturing output Granger caused changes in innovative activity and that the latter fluctuated pro-cyclically during the period 1948-83 in the UK. This note shows that their modelling method is inappropriate and results misleading....

A stochastic frontier production is applied to study the technical inefficiencies of grain production in China using a panel dataset on 30 provinces in 1978-92.

This article uses both cross-section and panel data approaches to study regional growth in China. Inter-regional income inequality increased ((divergence), the rich regions became richer but poor regions poorer (b divergence), over the data period 1978-95. This contradicts results from other...

This paper aims to identify the likely winners and losers in the biotechnological revolution by firstly reviewing the history of GM technology and identifies the scientific risks to the consumer and environment, arising from the cultivation of GM crops and the consumers perceptions thereof.

This paper develops a policy simulation model based on the system dynamics approach to examine the role of wood trade liberalization in helping long-term forestry development in China.

This poper examines the popular magazine Woman's Own during teh 1930s. We suggest the it epitomised the evolution of a new sub-genre of magazines aimed at british lower-middle-class and working-class women.

What form of utility function can represent behaviour motivated by duty which leaves an agent worse off in material terms? In pursuit of an answer to this question, this paper investigates concepts of utility as explained in textbooks, and as discussed by earlier economists who were instrumental...