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...

The key lessons that can be distilled from this paper are as follows. The assumption of an inexorable shift of manufacturing industries to low labour-cost regions has proved to be largely mistaken, as the bulk of industry has remained in the developed world.

Agrarian policy discussions have traditionally centred on how such policy can be formulated so as to galvanise agricultural production (the 'reversing of the terms of trade bias against agriculture' of the Neo-liberals being one obvious facet of this approach) or to reduce rural inequalities (as...

The role of foreign-based enterprises in the British economy, and policy towards foreign multinationals, has been of considerable interest ot successive UK governments. This paper examines the early evolution of policy, prior to the second World War.

This paper discusses developments in capital theory since the publication of Kaldor's seminal paper Alternative Theories of Distribution. It argues that different approaches simplify issues in different ways and that each of these simplifications is important in developing a coherent and...