Several liters of subsurface pond water are collected in a prerinsed container or bucket. It is better to collect the water soon after dawn, before ambient N, P, and C are stripped from the water column by phytoplankton through photosynthetic activity. The method described here uses 500-ml pondwater subsamples for individual treatment determinations, but this volume and the corresponding nutrie...

I.1. Can one find in the classical authors solid reasons in support of the thesis that growth is determined by the reinvestment of full-utilization savings, or, that recessions are not due to deficiencies of aggregate demand, or again, that 'general gluts' are impossible; in other words, in support of Say's Law? This is the question motivating the present paper; the inquiry here will be ho weve...

The Malthus programme produces a model for the local and national level of radiotherapy demand for use by commissioners and radiotherapy service leads inEngland. The accuracy of simulation is dependent on the population cancer incidence, stage distribution and clinical decision data used by the model. In order toquantify uncertainty in the model, a global sensitivity analysis of the Mal...

The repeal of the British Combination Laws in 1824 is generally considered by historians as landmark modern trade unionism, and has been attributed to contributions classical political economists. In sole article that addressed this issue field history economic thought, William Grampp reached opposite conclusion, according which influence economists (John Ramsay McCulloch, David Ricardo, Thomas...

What are the prospects for long-run economic growth? One prominent line of thinking is trend toward stagnation. Stagnationism has a long history in economics, beginning prominently with Malthus and occasionally surfacing different guises. Prominent themes here following: Will growth slow perhaps even reverse under weight resource depletion? overpopulation diminishing returns lower living standa...