'Jacob Metzer's excellent analysis of the economy of Mandatory Palestine combines modern economic history and development economics to explore the Arab and Jewish economies and their sectoral disparities. Offering new quantitative data on national income accounts, he examines the nature of Palestine's divided economy and carefully distinguishes between economic dualism and political ethno-nationalism as features contributing to the clear developmental asymmetries between the Arab and Jewish sectors.' Sara Roy, Harvard University

• 1. Palestine's economic structure and performance: introduction and overview; 2. The peoples of Palestine: a comparative account; 3. Patterns and characteristics of Palestine's (Jewish) immigration; 4. Production resources in a divided economy: land, capital and labor; 5. Production and trade; 6. Public sectors in Palestine's economic life; 7. Postscript: some observations on economic co-existence in adversity.

'Jacob Metzer's excellent analysis of the economy of Mandatory Palestine combines modern economic history and development economics to explore the Arab and Jewish economies and their sectoral disparities. Offering new quantitative data on national income accounts, he examines the nature of Palestine's divided economy and carefully distinguishes between economic dualism and political ethno-nationalism as features contributing to the clear developmental asymmetries between the Arab and Jewish sectors.' Sara Roy, Harvard University

• 1. Palestine's economic structure and performance: introduction and overview; 2. The peoples of Palestine: a comparative account; 3. Patterns and characteristics of Palestine's (Jewish) immigration; 4. Production resources in a divided economy: land, capital and labor; 5. Production and trade; 6. Public sectors in Palestine's economic life; 7. Postscript: some observations on economic co-existence in adversity.