In 1989, we applied for a Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation grant to investigate the funding of fascist and Neo-Nazi movements in Israel. The Foundation did not find the topic important enough, and the application was ceremonially rejected. Here is what we wanted to do. RESEARCH PLAN. The...

This essay examines the Israeli market structure from the perspective of ownership. We distinguish between the several corporate holding-groups that dominate the ‘Big Economy’ and the multitude of smaller, largely independent, business entities of the ‘Small Economy’. Although the two...

The interaction of oil exports from the Middle East in the 1970s with arms imports to this region has drawn attention from several researchers. The existing literature, however, is seriously flawed for it ignores the large corporate players whose actions synchronize the two flows of income and,...

The present essay is the second in a series of four papers in which examine the political economy of armaments in recent decades. In this paper we focus on the ‘armament core’ of large military producers which recently emerged as a powerful bloc within the big economy of the United States....

This is the third paper in a series of four essays that deal with recent developments affecting the political economy of armaments. It begins by identifying the ‘military bias paradox’ of divergent behaviour, whereby the large armament corporations experienced an almost uninterrupted growth...

This is the final paper in a series of four essays that deal with the political economy of armament and oil. Since the 1980s, military imports to the Middle East increased while revenues from oil exports declined substantially. These disparities highlight structural changes which affect the...

In this paper, an approximation is suggested whereby the alternative C.E.S. form can be fitted as a number of additional corrections to the final expression associated with the Cobb-Douglas form. Some numerical results are tabulated, and these indicate that, for the British Economy at least, the...

One product of the author's recent investigation into the determinants of real fixed capital formation in the post-war british Economy was the following set of time-series. In this paper, the author tells us how the extension of the series beyond the range of the other series resulted in the...

Few econometric analyses dealing with aspects of the British post-war economy were available. In 1968, a study sponsored by the Brookings Institution was compelled to acknowledge the absence of any econometric investigation of the British system of investment incentives. In the following...

The problems of seasonal adjustment and other forms of prior adjustment have seldom been integrated into a general framework of estimation. A well-known result, due to Frisch and Waugh, has been used to demonstrate how linear seasonal influences might be treated in the context of the general...