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knowledge. Three long-term outcomes emerge. First, a "Secularization" or "Western-European" regime with declining religiosity …, unimpeded science, a passive Church and high levels of taxes and transfers. Second, a "Theocratic" regime with knowledge …
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career decisions. People generally have imperfect knowledge about their abilities, which in most tasks are complementary to …
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This Paper studies the internal commitment mechanisms or ‘personal rules’ (diets, exercise regimens, resolutions, moral or religious precepts, etc.) through which people seek to achieve self-control. Our theory is based on the idea of self-reputation over one’s willpower, which potentially...
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-wide linkages (complementary skills, knowledge spillovers). It compares growth and welfare when families are stratified into …
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, at school, and in personal relationships. Because a person generally has only imperfect knowledge of his own abilities …
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People with a self-control problem often seek relief through social interactions rather than binding commitments. Thus, in self-help groups like Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous etc, members are said to achieve better personal outcomes by mainly sharing their experiences. In other...
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in Mises and Hayek's explanations of the different hases of the trade cycle, by underlying the role played by knowledge …
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The purpose of this contribution is to investigate the problem of the room attributed to individual economic rationality by circulation approaches. Our investigation will not privilege however the modern contributions of this approach but will instead utilize the works of some economists of the...
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This book surveys how economists engage with knowledge and beliefs in various fields of economic analysis, such as … perspective on the meaning, as well as the role, of knowledge and beliefs in economics in the future. Possible lines of future … action are discussed.A platform for future research and investigation into the role of knowledge and beliefs in economics …
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