Ronald Findlay
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3714017 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ronald Findlay |
| NOMBRES | Ronald |
| APELLIDO | Findlay |
| FIRMA | FINDLAY R |
| AFILIACIONES | Columbia University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 126 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1963 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Commodity frontiers
The history of frontiers is a fascinating topic for research, especially interdisciplinary research. We stress the need to engage with existing work on the topic by economists and economic historians, but we also highlight the need to engage with such topics as the history of inter-state conflict and violence, technological change, and the role of multiple interest groups in determining policy
The Economics of the Frontier
This book deals with the economics of establishing a frontier by conquest or by peaceful settlement, the costs involved, and the optimum extension of the territory. The opening chapters discuss the most relevant literature about frontiers â conceptual, theoretical and empirical â and introduce the fundamental theoretical model for extending frontiers which is drawn on throughout the book. The authors use this theoretical apparatus by applying it …
Frontiers and Empires in Historical Perspective
This chapter surveys a number of frontier episodes (historical examples which bring out the importance of our approach).
The First Globalization Episode
This chapter applies the empire model to what is arguably the first globalization episode: the creation of the largest territorially continuous empire that the world has so far seen, ranging from Korea to Eastern Europe, by a maximum of 1 million Mongols. The chapter examines the Mongol choice between herding and conquest, arguing that for ecological reasons the marginal return to the former was exceedingly low, which made conquest the superior a…
Economics of the Frontier
Power and Plenty
Natural Resources and Economic Development
This chapter examines the performance of two types of resource-abundant economies during the ‘golden age’ of the world economy from 1870 to 1914. These are the ‘Regions of Recent Settlement’ (United States, Canada, Australia, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and South Africa); and plantation and peasant economies in ‘Tropical Countries’ (Burma, Siam, the Gold Coast, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ceylon, and Malaya). Disparities in the performance of th…
The Political Economy of Conflict and Appropriation
This collection of essays departs from the conventional economic paradigm wherein individuals or groups choose among various productive activities for mutually beneficial trade. Each essay recognizes that where property rights are not well defined or easily enforced, individuals may forgo productive opportunities and engage in appropriative activities to compete for property, income, rights or privileges. Though the essays differ in their focus, …
After Maastricht
W. Arthur Lewis Lecture
Racial discrimination, dualistic labor markets and foreign investment
Tariffs, quotas and domestic-content protection
Central Planning and the `Second Economy' in Soviet-Type Systems
Journal Article Central Planning and the `Second Economy' in Soviet-Type Systems Get access Stanislaw Wellisz, Stanislaw Wellisz Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ronald Findlay Ronald Findlay Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 96, Issue 383, 1 September 1986, Pages 646–658, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232…
A comment on ‘North-South trade and export-led policies’
International Trade and Human Capital
The paper incorporates the formation of human capital into the two-factor, two-good model of international trade. Workers can choose between being unskilled and earning the corresponding wage or obtaining an education that enables them to earn a higher wage. The wages of skilled and unskilled labor and the direct and indirect costs of education are all determined endogenously, along with the terms of trade and the pattern of comparative advantage…
An "Austrian" Model of International Trade and Interest Rate Equalization
This paper constructs a model of trade in which an intermediate good is produced by an "Austrian" point-input-point-output process of variable duration while the finished good is produced instantaneously by labor alone. The rate of time preference is a function of the level of stationary consumption and the two countries differ in the rate at which they discount the future. It is shown that the less "impatient" country will export the time-intens…
Relative Backwardness, Direct Foreign Investment, and the Transfer of Technology
Journal Article Relative Backwardness, Direct Foreign Investment, and the Transfer of Technology: A Simple Dynamic Model Get access Ronald Findlay Ronald Findlay Columbia University and Institute for International Studies, Stockholm Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 92, Issue 1, February 1978, Pages 1-16, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885996 Published: 01 February 1978
Project Evaluation, Shadow Prices, and Trade Policy
The problem of how to determine the appropriate shadow prices of primary inputs for the evaluation of new projects in an open economy subject to distortions is discussed. These shadow prices are compared with the corresponding free-trade and actual market prices. It is shown that if the distortion is an output subsidy or tax on existing production, the optimal intervention for new projects is subsidies and taxes on primary factors equal to the di…
Project appraisal and planning for developing countries
Slavery, Incentives, and Manumission
This paper presents a theoretical model of slavery and manumission in which the effective labor provided by slaves is a function of both the level of supervision costs incurred by the owner and the incentive payments received by the slaves. The optimal combination of supervision costs and incentive payments is determined together with the input of physical capital. The length of time it would take for a slave to purchase his freedom out of saving…
Relative Prices, Growth and Trade in a Simple Ricardian System
The Ricardian system appears to have fascinated every generation of economists since its original formulation. Ours is no exception. Knight (1935), Stigler (1952), Kaldor (1956) and Samuelson (1959) to mention only some of the most eminent theorists of our time, have all devoted papers to examining and appraising the nature of Ricardo's unique contribution to economic analysis. Piero Sraffa (1951), in addition to his monument of scholarship in a …
Trade and Specialization
Factor Proportions and Comparative Advantage in the Long Run
Optimal Investment Allocation Between Consumer Goods and Capital Goods
Journal Article Optimal Investment Allocation Between Consumer Goods and Capital Goods Get access Ronald Findlay Ronald Findlay Institute of Economics, Rangoon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 76, Issue 301, 1 March 1966, Pages 70–83, https://doi.org/10.2307/2229038 Published: 01 March 1966
[Findlay's Robinsonian Model of Accumulation]
Relative Backwardness, Direct Foreign Investment, and the Transfer of Technology
Journal Article Relative Backwardness, Direct Foreign Investment, and the Transfer of Technology: A Simple Dynamic Model Get access Ronald Findlay Ronald Findlay Columbia University and Institute for International Studies, Stockholm Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 92, Issue 1, February 1978, Pages 1-16, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885996 Published: 01 February 1978
International Trade and Human Capital
The paper incorporates the formation of human capital into the two-factor, two-good model of international trade. Workers can choose between being unskilled and earning the corresponding wage or obtaining an education that enables them to earn a higher wage. The wages of skilled and unskilled labor and the direct and indirect costs of education are all determined endogenously, along with the terms of trade and the pattern of comparative advantage…
Slavery, Incentives, and Manumission
This paper presents a theoretical model of slavery and manumission in which the effective labor provided by slaves is a function of both the level of supervision costs incurred by the owner and the incentive payments received by the slaves. The optimal combination of supervision costs and incentive payments is determined together with the input of physical capital. The length of time it would take for a slave to purchase his freedom out of saving…
Project Evaluation, Shadow Prices, and Trade Policy
The problem of how to determine the appropriate shadow prices of primary inputs for the evaluation of new projects in an open economy subject to distortions is discussed. These shadow prices are compared with the corresponding free-trade and actual market prices. It is shown that if the distortion is an output subsidy or tax on existing production, the optimal intervention for new projects is subsidies and taxes on primary factors equal to the di…
Factor Proportions and Comparative Advantage in the Long Run
Optimal Investment Allocation Between Consumer Goods and Capital Goods
Journal Article Optimal Investment Allocation Between Consumer Goods and Capital Goods Get access Ronald Findlay Ronald Findlay Institute of Economics, Rangoon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 76, Issue 301, 1 March 1966, Pages 70–83, https://doi.org/10.2307/2229038 Published: 01 March 1966
An "Austrian" Model of International Trade and Interest Rate Equalization
This paper constructs a model of trade in which an intermediate good is produced by an "Austrian" point-input-point-output process of variable duration while the finished good is produced instantaneously by labor alone. The rate of time preference is a function of the level of stationary consumption and the two countries differ in the rate at which they discount the future. It is shown that the less "impatient" country will export the time-intens…
Racial discrimination, dualistic labor markets and foreign investment
Relative Prices, Growth and Trade in a Simple Ricardian System
The Ricardian system appears to have fascinated every generation of economists since its original formulation. Ours is no exception. Knight (1935), Stigler (1952), Kaldor (1956) and Samuelson (1959) to mention only some of the most eminent theorists of our time, have all devoted papers to examining and appraising the nature of Ricardo's unique contribution to economic analysis. Piero Sraffa (1951), in addition to his monument of scholarship in a …
After Maastricht
Tariffs, quotas and domestic-content protection
A comment on ‘North-South trade and export-led policies’
[Findlay's Robinsonian Model of Accumulation]
The Robinsonian Model of Accumulation
Mrs. Robinson's Accumulation of Capital2 seems to have won for her the position of the dragon in the fairy tales told by neo-classical capital theorists. Solow3 and Swan,4 and also Green,5 have all responded only to the negative aspect of Mrs. Robinson's work, which is the critique of the concept of the production function and the marginal productivity theory of factor income shares associated with it. What has received surprisingly little attent…
Optimal Investment Allocation Between Consumer Goods and Capital Goods
Journal Article Optimal Investment Allocation Between Consumer Goods and Capital Goods Get access Ronald Findlay Ronald Findlay Institute of Economics, Rangoon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 76, Issue 301, 1 March 1966, Pages 70–83, https://doi.org/10.2307/2229038 Published: 01 March 1966
Factor Proportions and Comparative Advantage in the Long Run
Trade and Specialization
Relative Prices, Growth and Trade in a Simple Ricardian System
The Ricardian system appears to have fascinated every generation of economists since its original formulation. Ours is no exception. Knight (1935), Stigler (1952), Kaldor (1956) and Samuelson (1959) to mention only some of the most eminent theorists of our time, have all devoted papers to examining and appraising the nature of Ricardo's unique contribution to economic analysis. Piero Sraffa (1951), in addition to his monument of scholarship in a …
Project appraisal and planning for developing countries
Slavery, Incentives, and Manumission
This paper presents a theoretical model of slavery and manumission in which the effective labor provided by slaves is a function of both the level of supervision costs incurred by the owner and the incentive payments received by the slaves. The optimal combination of supervision costs and incentive payments is determined together with the input of physical capital. The length of time it would take for a slave to purchase his freedom out of saving…
Project Evaluation, Shadow Prices, and Trade Policy
The problem of how to determine the appropriate shadow prices of primary inputs for the evaluation of new projects in an open economy subject to distortions is discussed. These shadow prices are compared with the corresponding free-trade and actual market prices. It is shown that if the distortion is an output subsidy or tax on existing production, the optimal intervention for new projects is subsidies and taxes on primary factors equal to the di…
An "Austrian" Model of International Trade and Interest Rate Equalization
This paper constructs a model of trade in which an intermediate good is produced by an "Austrian" point-input-point-output process of variable duration while the finished good is produced instantaneously by labor alone. The rate of time preference is a function of the level of stationary consumption and the two countries differ in the rate at which they discount the future. It is shown that the less "impatient" country will export the time-intens…
Relative Backwardness, Direct Foreign Investment, and the Transfer of Technology
Journal Article Relative Backwardness, Direct Foreign Investment, and the Transfer of Technology: A Simple Dynamic Model Get access Ronald Findlay Ronald Findlay Columbia University and Institute for International Studies, Stockholm Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 92, Issue 1, February 1978, Pages 1-16, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885996 Published: 01 February 1978
International Trade and Human Capital
The paper incorporates the formation of human capital into the two-factor, two-good model of international trade. Workers can choose between being unskilled and earning the corresponding wage or obtaining an education that enables them to earn a higher wage. The wages of skilled and unskilled labor and the direct and indirect costs of education are all determined endogenously, along with the terms of trade and the pattern of comparative advantage…
A comment on ‘North-South trade and export-led policies’
Tariffs, quotas and domestic-content protection
Central Planning and the `Second Economy' in Soviet-Type Systems
Journal Article Central Planning and the `Second Economy' in Soviet-Type Systems Get access Stanislaw Wellisz, Stanislaw Wellisz Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ronald Findlay Ronald Findlay Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 96, Issue 383, 1 September 1986, Pages 646–658, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232…
Racial discrimination, dualistic labor markets and foreign investment
W. Arthur Lewis Lecture
After Maastricht
The Political Economy of Conflict and Appropriation
This collection of essays departs from the conventional economic paradigm wherein individuals or groups choose among various productive activities for mutually beneficial trade. Each essay recognizes that where property rights are not well defined or easily enforced, individuals may forgo productive opportunities and engage in appropriative activities to compete for property, income, rights or privileges. Though the essays differ in their focus, …
Natural Resources and Economic Development
This chapter examines the performance of two types of resource-abundant economies during the ‘golden age’ of the world economy from 1870 to 1914. These are the ‘Regions of Recent Settlement’ (United States, Canada, Australia, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and South Africa); and plantation and peasant economies in ‘Tropical Countries’ (Burma, Siam, the Gold Coast, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ceylon, and Malaya). Disparities in the performance of th…
Power and Plenty
Economics of the Frontier
The Economics of the Frontier
This book deals with the economics of establishing a frontier by conquest or by peaceful settlement, the costs involved, and the optimum extension of the territory. The opening chapters discuss the most relevant literature about frontiers â conceptual, theoretical and empirical â and introduce the fundamental theoretical model for extending frontiers which is drawn on throughout the book. The authors use this theoretical apparatus by applying it …
Frontiers and Empires in Historical Perspective
This chapter surveys a number of frontier episodes (historical examples which bring out the importance of our approach).
The First Globalization Episode
This chapter applies the empire model to what is arguably the first globalization episode: the creation of the largest territorially continuous empire that the world has so far seen, ranging from Korea to Eastern Europe, by a maximum of 1 million Mongols. The chapter examines the Mongol choice between herding and conquest, arguing that for ecological reasons the marginal return to the former was exceedingly low, which made conquest the superior a…
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