The early history of psychotherapy in the Netherlands hardly differs from that of the surrounding countries. Somewhat later than in France and Germany, psychotherapy appeared during the last decades of the nineteenth century, with general practitioners who started to treat their patients (mainly for all kinds of somatic complaints) by psychological means. In the early decades of the twentieth c...

In this paper uses Kaname Akamatsu's 'Flying Geese' model to analyse Japan's role in East Asian integration. Japan made the first attempt to lead Asian countries before the Second World War. At that time, the Japanese Government embarked on a brutally expansionist policy the result of which was creation of the first gaggle of 'flying geese' under the name of the 'Greater East Asia CoProsperity ...

Similarly to his great predecessors P. L. Tschebyshev and A. M. Lyapunov, the academician A. N. Kolmogorov (25.04.1903– 20.10.1987) was not only a universal mathematician, proposing and developing fruitful ideas, he also readily answered challenges presented to him in his capacity as an applied mathematician. He had an amazing ability to get to the root of a problem, to determine fundamental is...

Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector model of the economy, in which moving costs prevent the marginal product of labor to be equalized across sectors, predicts that immigration...

Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector specific factors model, in which moving costs prevent the marginal product of labor to be equalized across sectors, predicts that immigrati...

her professional training at (the Royal Free Hospit3' ̂ London, but her studies were interrupted first ^ illness and ithen by the first world war, during ^ ? she worked in an aircraft factory. She resumed ^ medical studies after the war, and graduated ^; Ch.B. at (Bristol University in 1927, taking the Conj0' diploma lin the same year. A series of (house P? c., completed her training, and she th...