The divided economy of mandatory Palestine /

Adopting a systematic yet non-technical approach. Jacob Metzer's book is the first to analyse the divided economy of Mandatory Palestine from the viewpoints of modern economic history and development economics. While the existing literature has tended to focus on the Jewish economy, this book e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Metzer, Jacob
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998
Series:Cambridge Middle East studies ; 11
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Table of Contents:
  • Palestine's economic structure and performance: introduction and overview
  • The peoples of Palestine: a comparative account
  • Patterns and characteristics of Palestine's (Jewish) immigration
  • Production resources in a divided economy: land, capital, and labor
  • Production and trade
  • Public sectors in Palestine's economic life
  • Postscript: some observations on economic coexistence in ethno-national adversity
  • App. A. Demographic and economic statistics of Mandatory Palestine
  • App. B. Socio-economic indicators by country