Eli F. Heckscher, 1879–1952, and his treatise on mercantilism revisited

Parkinson and his disease revisited.

Marxism, Capitalism and Mercantilism

Traders Versus the State: Anthropological Approaches to Unofficial Economics is at once both a frustrating book to read and a fascinating book to review. One might suppose from its title that the book deals with conflict between officials on the one hand and those engaged in tradingor merchandising on the other. And one might suppose from reading the subtitle that the book focuses on the activi...

Paul Ehrlich and his Magic bullets--revisited.

n 1940 Warner Brothers Studios released a film, Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet , which starred Edward G. Robinson (1883–1973), who was born in Romania as Emanuel Goldenberg and who—at a time when the beginning Holocaust threw its shadow over Germany—was sufficiently familiar with prejudice and discrimination to play convincingly the role of Paul Ehrlich, whose own career suffered because of open an...

Implicit Mercantilism, Oligopoly, and Trade

The authors propose a new model of trade between developing and advanced economies to capture the effects of important asymmetries in the organizations of their industries. This model demonstrates how the industrial structure of a developing economy can evolve to produce what the authors call “implicit mercantilism.” Free entry plus domestic oligopoly in a developing economy, when combined with...

Eli^ibles on State and County Lists

KIAMESHA LAKE—Joseph D. Lochner, the first e m ployee of the Civil Service Employees Assn., was honored a t two dinners last week at the Concord Hotel, here. Lochner, who has spent his entire working career wi th the Association, started with OSEA In 1&31 as Its only employee, and the friends and associates he made over the years turned out to pay tribute to him at the two-night workshop of the...