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Warrant economics, call-put policy options and the fallacies of economic theory
Hatgioannides, John; Karanassou, Marika - 2011
In this paper we aim to trace the roots of the ongoing economic mayhem and to unmask the chorus of the tragedy which plays on the world stage. The main thesis of our work is that, despite the triumphant rhetoric praising the merits of perfect competition, the global fields of the dysfunctional...
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Vattel's Rousseau : Jus Gentium and the Natural Liberty of States
Christov, Theodore - 2011
From the context of mid-eighteenth-century Swiss debates on the natural liberty of small states and the commercial liberty of imperial powers, this paper will trace two distinct - but ultimately irreconcilable - approaches to accommodating the liberty of states and obedience to the law of...
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Freedom, Choice, and Contracts
Dagan, Hanoch - 2019
In The Choice Theory of Contracts, we explain contractual freedom and celebrate contract types. This Issue offers … penetrating critiques. Here, we reply by refining choice theory and showing how it fits and shapes the contract canon. I. Freedom …. (1) Charles Fried challenges our account of Kantian autonomy, but his views, we show, largely converge with choice theory …
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Economic Freedom, Pandemics and Robust Political Economy
Candela, Rosolino; Geloso, Vincent - 2021
What is the relationship, if any, between economic freedom and pandemics? This paper addresses this question from a robust political economy approach. As is the case with recovery from natural disasters or warfare, a society that is relatively free economically offers economic actors greater...
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The libertarian legacy of the old right : democracy and representative government
Modugno, Roberta - In: The journal of libertarian studies 23 (2019), pp. 5-21
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From Classical Liberalism to Democratic Optimism : James M. Buchanan and Elinor Ostrom
Johnson, Marianne - 2022
This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the book that established the field of public choice – The Calculus of Consent by James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock. The year is also the thirtieth anniversary of Elinor Ostrom’s “Covenants With and Without a Sword,” in which she...
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Pursuing a developmental state trade agenda in a neo-liberal context : Brazil and South Africa in comparison
Hachmann, Luciana - 2014
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Liberalisierungspolitik : eine Bestandsaufnahme von zweieinhalb Dekaden marktschaffender Politik in entwickelten Industrieländern
Höpner, Martin (contributor) - 2009
Liberalisierungspolitik bezeichnet die politisch herbeigeführte und politisch legitimierte Delegation von Allokations- und Distributionsentscheidungen an Märkte und zielt auf Durchsetzung der Prinzipien der Eigenverantwortung, der dezentralen Entscheidungsfindung und der Konkurrenz. Viele...
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Words speak louder than actions : the impact of politics on economic performance
Osterloh, Steffen - 2010
In this paper, a new approach to disclose the impact of politics on economic growth is presented: we use data derived from content analysis of party manifestos as measures of party preferences. In a panel of 23 OECD countries, we detect a positive impact of party support for various...
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