Export Tourism: Rejoinder to Palmer. Quarterly Economic Commentary, November 1983

There appear to be three central points in Noel Palmer's comments. These pertain to: I: The treatment of the government sector - should it be regarded as exogenous ( as in Norton, 1982) or endogenous? II: An assumtion of the input-output model used by me, namely, its failure to distinguish oetween average and marginal values of parameters. III: The relative capital intensity of export tourism

Export Tourism Input-Output Multipliers for Ireland. Quarterly Economic Commentary Special Article, May 1982

This paper focuses on some difficulties involved in the interpretation of earlier studies and goes on to calculate upper bound estimates of some of the principal economic effects of Irish export tourism in 1976. The 1976 input-output data of Henry (1980) form the basis for the calculations herein

On the Economic Theory of Smuggling.

Earlier models of smuggling involve indeterminate equilibria for individual firms, but they are deficient in their tr eatment of risk and/or transport costs. A model is constructed for an intra-EEC type of framework with due regard to such costs. Unique eq uilibria result. Smuggling of agricultural goods is an increasing-cos t industry, not because of implausible/unspecified externalities as i n some earlier papers, but because of increasing transport costs as t he extensive margin for smuggling is expanded. Predictions of the mod el are supported by studies of trade between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Copyright 1988 by The London School of Economics and Political Science.

'Putting up your Dukes': Statues, social memory and Duke Paoa Kahanamoku

Public statues that commemorate the lives and achievements of athletes are pervasive and influential forms of social memory in Western societies. Despite this important nexus between cultural practice and history making, there is a relative void of critical studies of statuary dedicated to athletes. This article will attempt to contribute to a broader understanding in this area by considering a bronze statue of Duke Paoa Kahanamoku, the Hawaiian Olympian, swimmer and surfer, at Waikīkī, Hawaii. This prominent monument demonstrates the processes of remembering and forgetting that are integral to acts of social memory. In this case, Kahanamoku's identity as a surfer is foregrounded over his legacy as a swimmer. The distillation and use of Kahanamoku's memory in this representation is enmeshed in deeper cultural forces about Hawaii's identity. Competing meanings of the statue's symbolism indicate its role as a 'hollow icon', and illustrate the way that apparently static objects representing the sporting past are in fact objects of the present