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On the political economy of environmental survival versus collapse. Clarifying the work done by Tinbergen & Hueting vis-à-vis Weitzman, Nordhaus and Stern

Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The Stern Review (2006) on the economics of climate change presented a cost estimate of perhaps even 20% of national income and subsequently was criticized by Weitzman and Nordhaus and others in a discussion that centered on the use of the calculus of variations and the choice of the proper rate...

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The Old Man and the SNI: A review of advance and adversity in Hueting's research in sustainable national income (SNI), economic growth and the new scarcity from the environment

Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

environment since around 1965. Seminal results are his notion of environmental functions (WWF, 1969), his Ph.D. thesis “New …

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The Tinbergen & Hueting Approach in the Economics of Ecological Survival

Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Tinbergen & Hueting (1991) provide an approach to the economics of ecological survival that still is unsurpassed. Various “green GDPs” have been proposed such as ISEW, Ecological Footprint, Genuine Savings and Genuine Progress Indicator, and lately there is an increased interest in happiness...

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Investing In Civilization

Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper asks whether, and how, the state can solve the present crisis. The method of enquiry is to analyze what it did in the two comparable crises of 1893 and 1929. In each case, a prolonged and structural slowdown in the world economy was followed by financial crisis, a period of turmoil...

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The Road out of Crisis and the Policy Choices Facing Russia

Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

today, combined with an industrial policy whose centre is human development – forging and nurturing a talented and creative …

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Culture, Labour, and Resources: Principles of a Practical Alternative Growth Path

Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper was due to be presented to the 2013 conference of the World Association for Political Economy, in Florianopolis, Brasil. In the event, the author was unable to attend. The paper summarises the main conclusions of ten years of research into the Creative Industries in London and the UK,...

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Sustained Macroeconomic Reforms, Tepid Growth: A Governance Puzzle in Bolivia?

Kaufmann, Daniel; Mastruzzi, Massimo; Zavaleta, Diego - EconWPA - 2003

comparability, we also utilize cross-country governance indicators. …

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Governance and the City: An Empirical Exploration into Global Determinants of Urban Performance

Kaufmann, Daniel; Leautier, Frannie; Mastruzzi, Massimo - EconWPA - 2004

We contribute to the field of urban governance and globalization through an empirically-based exploration of … indicators of globalization (at the country and city level), city governance, city performance (access and quality of … framework and a set of hypotheses, and then test them econometrically. The findings suggest that good governance and …

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The Inequality of Influence

Hellman, Joel; Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003

Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) conducted among 6,500 firms in 27 transition countries. We refer to the …

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Far From Home: Do Foreign Investors Import Higher Standards of Governance in Transition Economies?

Hellman, Joel S.; Jones, Geraint; Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003

Based on the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) of firms in transition countries, which … of governance standards; ii) in misgoverned settings, FDI firms may magnify the problems of state capture and procurement …

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