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<i>Revealed Biodiversity: An Economic History of the Human Impact</i> aims to show that for several centuries … history.<b>Contents:</b> <ul> <li><b><i>The Long Term:</i></b> <ul> <li>Crisis</li> <li>Decline</li> <li>Proper Baselines: The …, historical geographers) or general readers interested in environmental history or economic history. …
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This paper submits that one of the most fallacious paradigms in economic thought and policy, stemming from Ricardo, has been that of comparative advantage, as it has assumed no capital mobility whereas it has been mainly foreign direct investment that has driven global trade since World War II...
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In this essay, I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, <em>Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic … Genius</em>. I describe how the book is an economic history of the period 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories … their history at all. (JEL B10, B20, B30, N00) …
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To understand macroeconomic and monetary thought at the European Commission, two elements are crucial: firstly, the Rome Treaty, as it determined the mandate of the Commission and, secondly, the economic ideas in the different countries of the European Community, as economic thought at the...
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Recent historiography on the interest of Italian economists in American economic thought is becoming rich and valuable. Thanks to these sources, we know that this interest arose because several Italian economists were attracted by the realism featured in North American economic investigation, by...
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"Economists and reform minded policymakers in Latin America are asking themselves, and are being asked, hard questions these days. The broad consensus is that two decades of reform have had too little toshow for it. Sporadic and sputtering economic growth and stagnant real wages (especially for...
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In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is … really an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate … economists might be interested in their history at all. …
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