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generalized the conclusion of dual economy to the whole Mandate.*’
1.3.4 Dualism With Interaction
Because I argue that the dualist approach fails, it is most useful to carefully
consider the dualist approach that goes the furthest in the direction of examining
the interactions between the Arab and Jewish economies. Among dualists, Jacob
Metzer best represents those who see strong interactions between the two sectors.
Understanding Metzer will best help us understand the strengths and ultimate
weaknesses of dualism in explaining the economic development of the Mandate
economy.
A partial corrective to the selective use of data from 1936-1939 was offered
in an article by Metzer and Kaplan who also adopt the dual-economy approach.*®
Recognizing the disruption of economic relations between Arabs and Jews during
the Revolt, they confined their analysis to 1921-1935. They do not include the
WWII period because it “was dominated . . . by short-run economic opportunities
and constraints generated” by the war.*? That is when economic interaction
between Arab and Jewish settlers resumed at a time of the most substantial
economic growth in the economy of Palestine. Although the massive war-related
Robert Szerszewski, Essays on the Structure of the Jewish Economy in
Palestine and Israel (Jerusalem: Maurice Falk Institute for Economic Research in
Israel, 1968).
Jacob Metzer and Oded Kaplan, “Jointly But Severally: Arab Jewish Dualism
and Economic Growth in Mandatory Palestine,” The Journal of Economic History
45, no. 2 (1985): 327-45.
*Tbid., 328.
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