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Philosophies politiques de la monnaie : une comparaison de Hobbes, Locke et Fichte
Théret, Bruno - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
their ways to express the issue of the people’s sovereignty. In their political constructions they granted a critical place … to the issue of money. We first recall the various meanings of the signifier “sovereignty” from the 16th century to the …
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Fonds souverains : aspects juridiques
Azar, Samar - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
economic sovereignty of their host countries, which seem to adopt an ambiguous position towards them, varying between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010795045
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Histoire et sciences de gestion : un essai de réflexion épistémologique
Praquin, Nicolas - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2007
The purpose of this paper is to show the possible contributions of the history to management. In a first part, through … identical nature can find its place also there and that history has a particular vocation for the teaching of sciences of … proposes a scientific step particularly adapted to the relation that the history and management can maintain. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905225
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Making Democracy Work: Culture, Social Capital and Elections in China
Padró i Miquel, Gerard; Qian, Nancy; Xu, Yiqing; Yao, Yang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
, such as elections. We collect new data to document the presence of voluntary and social organizations and the history of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213313
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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development: In and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa’s peculiar history …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225960
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Accounting valuation in nineteenth-century French bankruptcies
Labardin, Pierre - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
The purpose of this article is to study accounting valuation practices in French bankruptcies following enactment of the Law of 1838. The research is based on a study of 500 files in the archives of the Paris Court of Commerce. After first presenting the main steps in the bankruptcy proceedings,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752113
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The Long-Lived Effects of Historic Climate on the Wealth of Nations
Bluedorn, John; Valentinyi, Akos; Vlassopoulos, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We investigate the long-run consequences of historic, climatic temperatures (1730-2000) for the modern cross-country income distribution. Using a newly constructed dataset of climatic temperatures stretching over three centuries (18th, 19th, and 20th), we estimate a robust and significant...
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When the North Last Headed South: Revisiting the 1930s
Reinhart, Carmen M.; Reinhart, Vincent - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
The U.S recession of 2007 to 2009 is unique in the post-World-War-II experience by the broad company it kept. Activity contracted around the world, with the advanced countries of the North experiencing declines in spending normally the purview of the developing economies of the South. The last...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468628
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Growth in a Time of Debt
Reinhart, Carmen M.; Rogoff, Kenneth - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We study economic growth and inflation at different levels of government and external debt. Our analysis is based on new data on forty-four countries spanning about two hundred years. The dataset incorporates over 3,700 annual observations covering a wide range of political systems,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468655
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Around the European Periphery 1870-1913: Globalization, Schooling and Growth
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
On average, the poor European periphery converged on the rich industrial core in the four or five decades prior to World War I. Some, like the three Scandinavian economies, used industrialization to achieve a spectacular convergence on the leaders, especially in real wages and living standards....
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