This article provides information on economist Lucien Albert Hahn's influence on economics, and highlights similarity between Hahn and A.W. Phillips. Hahn's work was, in some important circles, fairly central to what Gottfried Haberler called the last great debate on inflation in the 1950s. The...

Objective:To report the frequency of 27 enhanced pharmacy services (EPS) provided in Australia’s community pharmacies and to analyse barriers and facilitators for providing priority services.Setting: A large representative sample of community pharmacies in Australia in 2002. Method...

The paper investigates the economic impacts of selected policies included in the Master Plan for Forestry Development, a 25-year plan (1991-2015) formulated in order to propagate forest resources in the Philippines. A computable general equilibrium (CGE) inodel based on ORANI, a multi-sectoral...

In his Presidential Address to the World Congress of the Econometrics Society, Jacques Dreze (1972, 16) promised that looking at real life problems would be ‘a lot of fun’. R. McAfee (1983, 735, 739) responded by making a MADCAP (‘Multiple Augmented Data Construction Assistance Package’)...

This paper examines the writings of William T. Thornton on the economics of trade unions as exemplified in his treatise, On Labour. In contrast to many recent commentators, the paper takes the title of On Labour seriously by moving beyond discussion of the "exceptional cases" in Chapter 1 Book...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the voluntary social and environmental disclosures made in the annual reports of Rothmans Ltd between the years of 1955 and 1999. The first part of the paper focuses on defining legitimacy theory as it has been used in accounting research,...

We examine Ralph W. Souter's defence, in the 1930s, of Marshall's Principles against Robbins' attempt to recast economics as a 'purely formal science of implications'. Souter elaborated on Marshall's invocations progressively to increase the realism of economic science and contrasted this...

The paper analyses the effects of tariff liberalization amongst the leading exporters and importers of forest products, in particular, as well as global merchandise, in general. The study utilises the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model and its database, version 7. Given that forest...

Aim: The aim of this paper is to describe the implementation of a strategic plan, ‘Health Gain for Children and Youth of Central Sydney”, over a 10 year period to December 2005.Methods: Descriptive information was obtained from the records and minutes of all relevant committees, interviews...

Objective: To report complication incidence to identify outliers more reliably, to provide feedback on performance, and to generate more timely alerts.Design: Data from a retrospective entire-population study was used as an example for the charting methods.Participants: The Western Australian...