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Yang and Ng’s chapter 1 is in part a survey work, and in part a piece of advocacy. It is a survey of the literature on specialization and the division of labour. Its purpose as a piece of advocacy is to argue that the most appropriate method for studying the origins and effects of specialization in an economy is with the Yang ‘consumer-producer’ modelling approach.

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  1. Jeff Borland
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Stanford University, USA

    Kenneth J. Arrow (Joan Kenney Professor of Economics Emeritus) (Joan Kenney Professor of Economics Emeritus)

  2. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Yew-Kwang Ng (Professor of Economics) (Professor of Economics)

  3. Monash University, Australia

    Yew-Kwang Ng (Professor of Economics) & Xiaokai Yang (Reader in Economics) (Professor of Economics) &  (Reader in Economics)

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Borland, J. (1998). Comment. In: Arrow, K.J., Ng, YK., Yang, X. (eds) Increasing Returns and Economic Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26255-7_3

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