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THE GRAVITY MODEL AND MIGRATION BEHAVIOUR: AN ECONOMIC INTERPRETATION
JOHN VANDERKAMPEconomists have had problems interpreting the gravity model, particularly as applied to migration behaviour. Its physical analogy is unappealing and theories of economic behaviour…
KEYNES, KEYNESIANS AND THE EVIDENCE ON U.K. TRADE CYCLES
BENJAMIN P. KLOTZMany scholars have noted that, since at least 1790, U.K. economic fluctuations have seemed to reach major peaks every 7–10 years. Keynes (1936, ch.18) used the elements of his…
EFFICIENCY CRITERIA AND LAND REFORM EFFECTS IN BRAZIL
RICHARD E. BERNSTIEN, ROBERT H. DEANSIn the land reform literature an important issue has been the effect land redistribution has on the allocation of resources and agricultural productivity. Generally, monopolistic…
DISGUISED UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE PARTICIPATION RATE IN URBAN COLOMBIA
ALBERT BERRYThe last few decades have seen increasing attention to problems of open and disguised unemployment (and underemployment) in developing countries. Open unemployment appears to have…
Monetarism
JAMES TREVITHICKWe have in recent years witnessed a spectacular revival of a doctrine which most economists had presumed to be dead, buried and thoroughly discredited. This is a doctrine which…
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