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Papers by Carlo Morelli

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Universal versus targeted benefits: the distributional effects of free school meals. (Dundee Disc... more Universal versus targeted benefits: the distributional effects of free school meals. (Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics; No. 173). University of Dundee. General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in Discovery Research Portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from Discovery Research Portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain. • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal. Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim.

The Ib-valley coalfield of Odisha, India contains five coal seams viz. Ib-seam at the bottom over... more The Ib-valley coalfield of Odisha, India contains five coal seams viz. Ib-seam at the bottom overlain successively by Rampur seam, Lajkura seam, Parkhani seam and Belpahar seam. Twenty one representative samples were collected from three major seams (Ib, Rampur and Lajkura) and their petrography and chemical studies were carried out. Samples were not collected from the Parkhani and Belpahar seams as these are very small seams exposed locally having no regional correlation. The macroscopic study shows the dominance of durain which imparts a dull appearance to these coals. The maceral analysis reveals that vitrinite percentage varies from 4.5% to 80.2%, the exinite from 3.30% to 22.2% and the inertinite from 12.5% to 92.2% in different samples of the Ib valley coalfield. The very high proportion of inertinite suggests a shallower water deposition of plant materials followed by prolonged period of exposure and repeated cycle of weathering. The proximate analysis results show that the top Lajkura seam is comparatively lower in rank than the underlying Ib and the Rampur seam. The ultimate analysis exhibites that the percentage of variation in C is found from 77.88 to 85.79, H from 4, 4 to 5.91 and O from 7.26 to 15.3. H/C and O/C ratio including C.V. in this coalfield showing distinct variations from the bottom to top seam. The analyses results indicate that the petrographic and chemical characters of the ib valley coals are stratigraphically controlled.

Contested Britain, 2020

This chapter examines debates regarding the potential effect Brexit will have on the economy and,... more This chapter examines debates regarding the potential effect Brexit will have on the economy and, in particular, specific areas of the economy in which international trade plays an especially important role. It demonstrates how differing elements of British business not only have divergent interests in Brexit but that these differences arise from their position in the economy. It focuses on Brexit in relation to agriculture, financial services and internationally traded manufactured goods as three examples of sectoral interests. A second element of the chapter is to look at the social consequences of these economic transitions. It utilises agency in the area of welfare and poverty, as a means to understand linkages between Brexit and austerity, and to examine their impact on poverty in society.

Our understanding of the ‘Golden Age’ of British retailing, during the period from the mid1970s t... more Our understanding of the ‘Golden Age’ of British retailing, during the period from the mid1970s through to the mid-1990s, has centred around a discussion of the impact that a rising retail concentration and a perceived increase in retailers’ market power has had on social welfare and competition policy. This increase in concentration and market power is itself understood to have evolved from the defining feature of the golden age, a rapid increase in capital investment by large-scale retailers. This paper examines the role played by capital investment in the golden age and demonstrates that whilst capital investment is negatively correlated with turnover it is positively correlated with both margins and market share. It is suggested that this relationship is significant as it provides evidence that the golden age of retailing did indeed lead to the rise in market power much of the literature feared was taking place.

Comparative Responses to Globalization, 2013

Industrial policy within the United Kingdom has a long and detailed history. Early forms of gover... more Industrial policy within the United Kingdom has a long and detailed history. Early forms of government regulation of industrial development can be dated back at least to the formation of monopoly companies in the form of the East and West India Companies for the exploitation of trade with the East and West Indies.1 More commonly, however, industrial policy is considered to have evolved in the twentieth century in response to the collapse of free trade and the Great Depression. The development of a ‘managed economy’ from the interwar years and extended further, following the successful organization of industry in wartime Britain, into the post-war era marked a new era in government’s role within the private economy.2

Business History, 2020

Abstract The focus of this special edition is on Indian business within its wider global context.... more Abstract The focus of this special edition is on Indian business within its wider global context. Indian business was not immune to influences from the wider world. There is a considerable body of literature that establishes the history of the global interconnectedness of the Indian economy in the 18th and 19th centuries. This special edition of Business History seeks to build on this body of work to locate the development of Indian business in the wider world economy, the practices that have grown from this relationship of exchange and the transfer of knowledge, know-how and competences.

Business History, 2018

Based upon UK and Indian government archives the paper innovatively informs our understanding of ... more Based upon UK and Indian government archives the paper innovatively informs our understanding of business/state relationships in the areas of the regulation of post-colonial international trade. The abandonment of Imperial Preference for tariff protection in Britain proved problematic in the case of Indian textile industry whose entry into the British market, tariff free under Imperial Preference, was being replaced first by quota regulations and then by duties from the early 1970s. This paper examines the negotiations between British and Indian textile interests in the period before the Multi-Fibre Arrangement as an environment where conflicting interests were negotiated.

The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review, 2007

The development of multiple retailing has been widely recognised as providing a series of revolut... more The development of multiple retailing has been widely recognised as providing a series of revolutionising influences on consumer behaviour. 2 The development of self-service in the 1950s, supermarket retailing in the 1960s, hypermarket one-stop shopping in out-of-town retailing formats and e-retailing in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s have all been external demonstrations of these revolutions. Multiple retailing firms have at the same time revolutionised internal functions of consumer industries from the breaking of Resale Price Maintenance in the 1950s to the development of Efficient Consumer Response, a combination of Just-in-Time techniques in the areas of logistics and distribution and utilisation of Electronic Point of Sale (EPoS) computer network technology for stock handling, in the 1990s. The impact from the diffusion of many of these innovatory developments during the 1980s and into the 1990s has also led to the suggestion, within food retailing, that a 'golden age' for British largescale multiple retailing existed. 3 While food retailing is taken to be the most dynamic sector within the retailing industry the changes taking place within retailing were general trends and as will be seen below the 'golden age' is equally applicable to the large multiple retailing sector as a general term. The three largest food retailers alone saw their market share increase from under 20% in 1980 to over 43% by 1990. 4 Less starkly concentration amongst all large-scale multiple retailers, defined 1 In writing this paper I have been grateful to Huiching Cheng for her research assistance and the University of Dundee for its financial support. All errors are my responsibility. 2 B. Fine and E. Leopold (ed.s),

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The rise of large-scale retailing represents arguably one of the success stories of British busin... more The rise of large-scale retailing represents arguably one of the success stories of British business in the second half of the twentieth century. Growing consumer prosperity after the Second World War saw rising demand for an ever widening array of consumer products, leading Prime Minister Harold MacMillan to famously suggest that the public had 'never had it so good'. To match these changes innovations from the United States were adopted by leading British retailers from the 1950s, especially in the fields of store size and layout, product packaging and marketing. A new wave of innovation emerged, this time generated from within, during the 'Golden Age' of retailing from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, when further advances in new store development, supply chain management and the use of information technology became widespread. Thus over the period of half a century British retailing had become a leading sector for innovation within British business. As a result by the 1990s British retailing had not only become oligopolistic, and the subject of repeated antimonopoly investigation, but the largest retailers were now turning to internationalisation as they themselves began to transfer their own technological know-how into new markets.

The oil industry has been accused of structuring markets nationally and internationally to exploi... more The oil industry has been accused of structuring markets nationally and internationally to exploit consumers in the advanced world. Thus 'transnational firms view individual states as resources to provide conditions amenable to business'. 2 Alternatively the oil majors are presented as a mechanism through which the first world exploits the wealth and resources of the third world. They have been dubbed western governments' willing 'vehicle of the national interest' on the understanding that, in international commercial oil matters, a policy of economic liberalism, i.e. no direct government involvement, would be pursued in return for the companies' active participation in the promotion of their government's international interests. 3 This paper examines the relationship between the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, later to become British Petroleum, during the period when these tensions were at their greatest. The period from the end of World War II to the retrieving of AIOC's major oil source, the Iranian oil fields in 1954 provide a clear demonstration of the cooperation and conflict, agreement and tensions between the British Government and the company. This paper examines the degree to which the oil company was successful in controlling its environment. In particular the paper asks whether the British government was simply a malleable

International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, 2014

Often referred to as the 'Dutch disease' economies with resource advantages or specific specialis... more Often referred to as the 'Dutch disease' economies with resource advantages or specific specialisations can be highly resistant to change and as a result enter a period of absolute decline. These economies, or industries, very specialisation then becomes a barrier to further development when technologies and the world economy evolve. This paper critically examines the impact of this 'Dutch disease' in relation to a case study of the jute textile industry and its relationship to the Scottish city of Dundee. The paper however demonstrates that this sclerotic behaviour cannot be fully understood without also considering the dynamic elements that were also evident in the jute firms as the industry diversified out of jute and into artificial fibres.

Business in Britain in the Twentieth Century, 2009

Social Policy and Society, 2009

The Scottish National Party led Scottish Government has identified household poverty as a key foc... more The Scottish National Party led Scottish Government has identified household poverty as a key focus for its anti-poverty strategy. The government's ‘Solidarity Target’ seeks to both increase wealth and increase the share of total income gained by the bottom three deciles. The ability to demonstrate the advantages of policy divergence within Scotland, relative to the other parts of the United Kingdom, is central to the government's aim of gaining support for increased powers for the devolved government. This paper seeks to provide evidence on one aspect of the government's anti-poverty strategy: the degree to which Scotland differs from the rest of the UK over levels of entrenched poverty. The paper demonstrates that not only does Scotland have greater entrenched poverty but that the changes in mobility since the 1990s have impacted on Scotland to a lesser degree than the rest of the UK.