Does national market size matter for industrial structure? Round One (Krugman) answered in the affirmative: Home market effects matter. Round Two (Davis) refuted this, arguing that an assumption of convenience–transport costs only for the differentiated goods–conveniently obtained the result. In Round Three we relax another persistent assumption of convenience–two industry types differentiated ...

Sir William Osler said that Oliver Wendell Holmes "was the most successful combination which the world has ever seen of the physician and man of letters," and so much has been written about Doctor Holmes it may seem futile to try to add anything, but, as Holmes himself wrote about Carlyle, "He remains not the less one of the really interesting men of his generation, a man about whom we really w...

We show that the consistency strength of the system NFUB, recently introduced by Randall Holmes, is precisely that of ZFC − + “There is a weakly compact cardinal”.