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  • Genetic Modification of Fibre Digestion

  • Harry J. Gilbert, Geoffrey P. Hazlewood
  • Journal:
    Proceedings of the Nutrition Society / Volume 50 / Issue 2 / August 1991
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 February 2007, pp. 173-186
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  • Geometric Population Increase: A Note on Priority of Usage

  • Geoffrey Gilbert
  • Journal:
    History of Economics Society Bulletin / Volume 11 / Issue 2 / Fall 1989
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    11 June 2009, pp. 296-299
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    Fall 1989

  • Perhaps the most notorious choice of words ever made by an economist was the pair of mathematical terms used by Malthus to describe the maximum possible rates of increase in population and subsistence: “geometric” to describe population growth, and “arithmetic” to describe the growth of subsistence. If Malthus could have foreseen the linguistic and logical difficulties entailed by the geometric-arithmetic distinction, he might have looked for different adjectives. But what a loss to the “bravura” style of the Essay on Population so admired by Keynes! Consider the rhetorical impact of: “Population tends to increase at an exponential rate higher than the rate at which the food supply increases.” Is this the language of an economic classic?

  • Maritime Enterprise in the New Republic: Investment in Baltimore Shipping, 1789–1793

  • Geoffrey Gilbert
  • Journal:
    Business History Review / Volume 58 / Issue 1 / Spring 1984
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    11 June 2012, pp. 14-29
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    Spring 1984

  • By systematically analyzing ship registry documents it is possible to illuminate shipholding practices at major American ports in the early national era. In this article, Professor Gilbert focuses on shipholding in Baltimore in the period just prior to the late eighteenth century European war-induced shipping boom. He finds the port's foreign trade to be largely controlled by Baltimore residents. Merchants owned by far the largest percentage of the shipping, while mariners constituted an important, albeit secondary, investor group. Sole ownership of vessels was more extensive in Federalist Baltimore than in colonial Boston or Philadelphia. More detailed comparisons of shipowning practices among the major United States ports, Gilbert concludes, await further research.