We provide evidence that increased political influence, arising from CIA interventions during the Cold War, was used to create a larger foreign market for American products. Following CIA interventions, imports from the US increased dramatically, while total exports to the US were unaffected. The surge in imports was concentrated in industries in which the US had a comparative disadvantage, not...

and late twentieth-century hospital planning. In a relatively short text (125 pp.) there is little room for detailed analysis of some subjects examined or discussion of attendant issues. For example, records of barber surgeons in Norwich date from 1188 and the author outlines various forms of medical licensing up to the late seventeenth century, notes the relatively large numbers of practitione...

Economics and psychology are both sciences of human behaviour. This paper gives a survey of their interaction. First, the changing relationship between the two sciences is discussed: while economics was once imperialistic, it has become a science inspired by psychological insights. In order to illustrate this, recent developments and evidence for three major areas are presented: bounded rationa...

This paper deals with the quantification of GMO regulations on bilateral trade flows. A composite index of the ‘complexity’ of such regulations for sixty countries as well as an ‘objective’ score for six GMO regulatory sub-dimensions has been developed. Using a gravity model, we show how bilateral ‘similarity’ in GMO regulations, affect trade flows for the composite index and its components. Re...

This paper critically explores the role of colonial discourse studies in exploring cultural imperialism. It discusses relevance this academic field to our current understanding ideological dimensions colonialism, imperialism, and globalization. Moreover, it outlines how related conceptualizations such as Orientalism, Said’s Orient Occident, hegemony, postcolonial theories are intrinsically link...

unknown at any time or anywhere, but this is a very recent and fragile development. Of special fascination to historians of European imperialism from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century is Cohen's statement on page 141 that "a good case can be made that urban European populations of that period may have been among the nutritionally most impoverished, the most disease-ridden, and the shortes...

This paper narrates the experience of a Canadian university in reorienting its mining curriculum towards the goal of producing engineers who are sensitive to context. The authors acknowledge industry’s historical association with environmental degradation and imperialism, but counter that mining is necessary to provide the materials of civil infrastructure, particularly that required to reduce ...