The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 05, No. 4, 1974
Recent Submissions
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Regional planning in Ireland - case for concentration - reappraisal
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1974)Few development issues in Ireland have generated so much controversy and emotion as the concept of spatially polarised growth; yet the continuing discussion has often been confused by a notable failure to define terms and ... -
Note on alternative methods of logistic projection
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1974)Engel curves exhibiting high income elasticities at low levels of income which then decline with income to produce finite per capita saturation levels have been widely used in studies of consumer durable goods (Brown and ... -
From division to dissension - Irish trade unions in 1930s
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1974)The special conference of April 1936 directed the national executive of the Irish Trade Union Congress to 'forthwith set up a Commission to inquire into and report on the terms of reference to the unions.' -
Real and monetary effects of an exogenous change in interest rates - rejoinder
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1974)Honohan seems to be treating my model as being both analytically and operationally equivalent to the standard Mundell open economy model. This I believe to be a misconception. -
Note on real and monetary effects of an exogenous change in interest rates
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1974)The interesting article by D. Rodney Thom (Economic and Social Review, January 1974) seems to contain a misleading assertion which makes his statistical results difficult to interpret. Thom's main thesis is that, in the ... -
Pseudo-bivariate structure of 2 x 2 contingency table - preliminary analysis
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1974)The paper by R. C. Geary on the comparative sensitivity of tests of significance to sample size contains the interesting suggestion that any 2 x 2 contingency table might be thought of as a sample realisation of a bivariate ... -
Problems in specification and interpretation of central bank reaction functions
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1974)The last decade, beginning with the work of Teigen, has seen widespread recognition of the need to 'endogenise' the supply of money in order to obtain consistent (i.e. asymptotically unbiased) estimates of the parameters ...