Hare Krishna and Estonia

Aditi Krishna

Kumar Krishna, in appreciation

It is with admiration and fondness that we dedicate this special issue of ZooKeys to Professor Kumar Krishna, dean of Isoptera research. This collection of papers is a humble testament of appreciation by the various biologists who are dedicated to studying termites, insects that are popularly maligned but actually of profound behavioral and ecological importance. Kumar’s influence extends beyon...

Ana Fernandes Krishna B

In this paper, we investigate incentives other than altruism that developed countries have in improving technologies speciÞc to developing countries. We develop a simple model of international trade between two regions, in which all individuals have similar preferences over an inferior good and a luxury good. The poor region has a comparative advantage in the production of the inferior good, an...

Education , Technical Change , and Openness ∗ Krishna

In this paper, we develop a simple open economy growth model that allows for the possibility that productivity growth and education affect each other and use it to empirically address issues of causality between the two. Technology adoption fostered by economic openness is modeled as the primary determinant of productivity growth. Thus, this framework also allows us to evaluate whether the much...

E. C. Hare and Quinine

1839, or nearly eighty years ago, just in time to be sent to join the army in Afghanistan, of which campaign his letters give very interesting glimpses; he saw Dr. Brydon, the "Remnant of an Army" brought into Jellalabad, and went through the siege of the cantonment at Kabul in 1841. Chapter III of the little book gives an account of the work of Hare on quinine and malaria. When E. C. Hare arri...