Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1980 by Subject "Economics"

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    • Health-education and the demand for tobacco in ireland, 1953-76 - note 

      Walsh, BM (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1980)
      THE publication of the report by the Royal College of Physicians in 1962 linking cigarette smoking and lung cancer led throughout the western world to mounting pressure to curb the smoking habit. In Ireland the cancer scare ...

    • Inefficiency in irish agriculture 

      Leddin, A (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1980)
      The purpose of this paper is to compare the relative efficiency of two similar groups of farms in Irish agriculture. Using a restricted profit function to measure economic efficiency and both of its components, price ...

    • Notes on the behavior of prices 

      Woods, JE (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1980)
      We discuss the behaviour of prices in an n-sector, circulating capital model with no joint production, of the type considered by Sraffa in Part I of his book. Instead of following Sraffa's approach, which uses the notion ...

    • Optimal labor subsidies and industrial-development in ireland 

      Ruane, F (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1980)
      This paper calculates the employment subsidies implicit in the principal financial incentives provided by the Irish Government to foster industrial employment. These subsidies are compared with estimates of optimal employment ...

    • What went wrong with irelands recent post-censal population estimates 

      Hughes, JG (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1980)
      The preliminary results of the 1979 Census (Ireland, 1979) indicated that the population was nearly 3.0 per cent greater than had been expected on the basis of the annual estimates of the population which were issued by ...