Two Short Essays on Mark Blaug's Last Intellectual Battles

Battles over Product Boundaries Battles over Product Boundaries and the Double Mark-up Problem

Previous studies on “tying” are based on the premise that there are clear boundaries between tied products. However, in the computing industry there are constant battles over boundaries between complementary products. A dominant firm in one layer of a multilayered system usually attempts to extend into other layers by including some of the latter’s functions into its own products. For instance,...

Two Essays on Investment

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Two Essays on Income

TWO ESSAYS ON INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN A DEVELOPING ECONOMY by Asim K. Dasgupta Submitted to the Department of Economics on May 12, 1975 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. This thesis is a collection of two essays.on the relationship between the distribution of income and the behavior of some crucial macro-variables in a developing economy. The firs...

Five Essays on the Quantification and Measurement of Intellectual Achievments

Dr. Mark Wainberg on old battles and new frontiers in HIV.

CMAJ, January 5, 2016, 188(1) E11 Few Canadian researchers were interested in HIV when Dr. Mark Wainberg started working in the field in the 1980s. “In the early days of the epidemic, there were a lot of naysayers and people who thought this would never be important.” Wainberg’s achievements in HIV research, including the 1989 identification of lamivudine, or 3TC, one of the most widely used HI...