The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 39)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 39)

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demand may be characterized as “short-run economic opportunities and
constraints,” it nonetheless provided, given the substantial increase in settler
manufacturing and the introduction of new industries, the long-run basis for the
consolidation of the settlers’ economy, which further undermined any possible
competition from the Arab economy.
In their article, Metzer and Kaplan offer a strange variation on the role or
nonrole of the Mandate government. To the Arab and Jewish sectors, they add the
government as a third sector; thus, “The first two are treated as national economies
whose products measure economic activity. Intersectoral transactions and transfers
between any two of the three sectors are treated as international trade.”*° Now,
even if one allows, for analytical purposes given their postulate of dual economy,
the treatment of transactions between the Arab and Jewish economies as
international trade, the same absolutely cannot be said of the so-called government
sector. For example, the expenditures of the Mandate government came from
revenues generated locally. The treatment of the government sector as an
exogenous factor conceals the differential impact government revenues and
expenditures had, but more importantly government policies, on the different
branches of the economy (i.e., agriculture, industry, and services), and between
and within the Palestinian Arabs and the Jewish community. Any government’s
fiscal or other policies, regardless of intent, are never neutral in their effects. The
role of the Mandate government and the impact and its policies are dealt with in
“Thid.
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