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Newly estimated national accounting data for the Arab community are utilized to provide a comparative economic profile of the Arab and Jewish sectors in mandatory Palestine's dual economy. It is shown that the Arab economy grew substantially, but at a much slower rate than the Jewish economy. Productivity advance, however, seems to have made a significantly larger relative contribution to Arab growth. General and specific dualistic features of Arab-Jewish trade and their growth promoting effects are also explored, suggesting that the political conflict between the two communities played only a minor role in shaping their economic interrelationship and performance.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on numbers -- 1 Palestine's economic structure and performance: introduction and overview -- One country - one economy, or two peoples - two economies? -- Palestine's economic record: a comparative assessment -- 2 The peoples of Palestine: a comparative account -- The pace and sources of population growth -- Components of natural increase -- Birth-rate determinants -- Mortality -- Health -- Education -- Human development -- 3 Patterns and characteristics of Palestine's (Jewish) immigration -- Jewish international migration -- Palestine in jewish migration -- The immigrants' demographic and socio-economic profile -- 4 Production resources in a divided economy: land, capital, and labor -- Land -- Land transactions -- Land tenure and distribution -- Capital -- Capital formation -- The markets for inves table funds -- Labor -- Size and characteristics of the labor force -- The labor market -- Labor and economic activity in the jewish community -- 5 Production and trade -- Production -- Structure and dynamics -- Agriculture -- Manufacturing -- Trade -- An aggregate view -- External and bilateral trade, arabs and jews -- 6 Public sectors in Palestine's economic life -- The government -- Non-government public sectors -- The public-private mix in the jewish economy -- 7 Postscript: some observations on economic coexistence in ethno-national adversity -- Appendix -- A. Demographic and economic statistics of Mandatory Palestine -- Population and labor -- Population -- Labor -- Output and value added by industry in the inter-war period -- Agriculture -- Manufacturing -- Construction -- Services -- Palestine's product by ethno-national sector, 1922-1947 -- Investment and capital, 1922-1947 -- B. Socio-economic indicators by country

This book is the first attempt to bridge the current divide between studies addressing "economic nationalism" as a deliberate ideology and movement of economic 'nation-building', and the literature concerned with more diffuse expressions of economic "nationness"—from national economic symbols and memories, to the "banal" world of product communication. The editors seeks to highlight the importance of economic issues for the study of nations and nationalism, and its findings point to the need to give economic phenomena a more prominent place in the field of nationalism studies. The authors of the essays come from disciplines as diverse as economic and cultural history, political science, business studies, as well as sociology and anthropology. Their chapters address the nationalism-economy nexus in a variety of realms, including trade, foreign investment, and national control over resources, as well as consumption, migration, and welfare state policies. Some of the case studies have a historical focus on nation-building in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, while others are concerned with contemporary developments. Several contributions provide in-depth analyses of single cases while others employ a comparative method. The geographical focus of the contributions vary widely, although, on balance, the majority of our authors deal with European countries