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This paper attempts to build up a Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model of production and trade where capital is introduced … trade only nominal factor prices. International financial flows will not alter pattern of trade, but movement of labour and … much more than before. Introducing finance affects trade patterns with unemployment and especially with imperfect credit …
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Adam Smith is commonly referred to as one of the first who thought of foreign trade in terms of an international … case for foreign trade on this basis. In this article, I will, in contrast, show that Smith does not understand foreign … trade as an international division of labour. Economic progress rather than international trade determines domestic …
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This note argues that the competitive paradigm of neoclassical economics breaks down in the presence of constant returns to scale (CRS). With CRS, all goods can be produced at identical costs by all economic agents, making self-production a feasible alternative to market production. In the...
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This paper attempts to build up a Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model of production and trade where capital is introduced … production with Ricardian fixed coefficient technology. Availability of finance does not affect production or pattern of trade … only nominal factor prices. International financial flows will not alter pattern of trade, but movement of labour and …
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A genealogical investigation of Frank Knight's little textbook, lt;Igt;The Economic Organizationlt;/Igt; (lt;Igt;EOlt;/Igt;), which has a history separate from, and perhaps even in tension with, its author. Where did this text come from? What is its history? What essays and manuscripts are its...
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This paper argues that Schumpeter's ‘Theory of Economic Development' is best interpreted as a theory of the avant-garde, in line with such theories developed by artistic avant-garde at the times, such as the Futurists. The work is not only published around the same time that many avant-garde...
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James M. Buchanan revisited his mentor's famous 1923 essay “The Ethics of Competition” in an essay written for the centenary celebration of Frank Knight's birth in 1985. Buchanan's paper focused on the first section of Knight's essay, and outlined why it provided an inadequate criticism of a...
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This paper constitutes the start of a project dedicated to Austrian economist and economic sociologist Friedrich von Wieser (1851-1926). Its central claim is that especially in recent decades, Wieser has become a disproportionately underresearched scholar, and the paper provides a set of...
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This working paper - like its companion, Caldwell and Klausinger 2021 - grew out of the authors' joint work on Hayek: A Life 1899-1950 (Caldwell and Klausinger 2022) and it contains material supplementing it. This paper examines the intellectual circles of fin-desiécle Vienna in which the Hayek...
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Paolo Sylos Labini's Oligopoly Theory and Technical Progress (1957) is considered one of the major contributions to entry-prevention models, especially after Franco Modigliani's famous formalization. Nonetheless, Modigliani neglected Sylos Labini's major aim when reviewing his work (1958),...
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