A two factor production function with a variable elasticity of substitution is considered. The note describes the relation between the elasticity and the behavior of the marginal products and the output per unit input as the factor ratio approaches zero or infinity.

Starting in 1999 a group of papers have appeared in mainstream journals that treat of the relation between capitalism and democracy in an eminently Marxian fashion. These analyses bear on a number of papers published mainly in S&S, specifically those of Castañada, Ellman, Harnacker, Nimtz and...

We show how to calibrate CES production and utility functions when indirect taxation affecting inputs and consumption is present. These calibrated functions can then be used in computable general equilibrium models. Taxation modifies the standard calibration procedures since any taxed good has...

This paper illustrates how convergence equations can be used to analyze the dynamics of the income distribution, thus overcoming some of the limitations of this methodology noted by Quah. Using panel data for a sample of OECD countries, we estimates a growth equation which relates the growth...

Convergence in inflation rates may not imply a process of convergence in price levels. If this were the case in the European Union, small but consistent differences in inflation would lead to inevitable realignments and would end up in a set back of the inflation convergence process. For some...