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Trade Liberalization and Industrial Pollution in Mexico: Lessons for the FTAA"
Gallagher, Kevin - EconWPA - 2001
As the barriers to hemispheric trade and integration are lowered, it will be asked whether we will we hear the "giant sucking sound" of poorer nations luring U.S. and Canadian firms south to take advantage of low wages and lax environmental regulations? Or, will Latin American nations passively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062608
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"Basic Principles of Sustainable Development"
Harris, Jonathan M. - EconWPA - 2001
This paper explores what a critical commentary on micro principles texts might look like, examining what is to be critiqued and how to do it.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005555984
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"Getting the Prices Wrong: The Limits of Market-Based Environmental Policy."
Ackerman, Frank; Gallagher, Kevin - EconWPA - 2001
Market based policies are fast becoming the recommended policy panacea for all the world’s environmental problems. Implicit in such recommendations is the theory that free markets, adjusted for externalities, can always create an “efficient” allocation of society’s resources. As a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556082
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"Economics in Context: The Need for a New Textbook"
Goodwin, Neva R.; Ananyin, Oleg I.; Ackerman, Frank; … - EconWPA - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556528
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Necessidade de uma economia solidária: a visão de Karl Polanyi sobre os mercados
Santos, António Bob - EconWPA - 2004
societies, social relations, and capitalism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407671
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THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM AS AN END OR AS A MEANS AND THE FUTURE OF SOCIALISM AND CAPITALISM: AN EVOLUTIONARY VIEWPOINT
Chilosi, Alberto - EconWPA - 2003
After the demise of “real” socialism and the decline of “western” socialism, socialism can be salvaged as a social preference system oriented towards equality and social justice, to be implemented without systemic constraints in the organizational and institutional sense. At the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407732
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The Anatomy of Emerging African Capitalist States
Stambuli, Kalonga - EconWPA - 2002
The author argues that the doctrine of state supremacy in Africa suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the collapse of export prices of African commodities in the late seventies, which undermined the ability of governments to support their expanded public sector. The author observes that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561041
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Why Are There Explicit Contracts of Employment?
James, Harvey; Johnson, Derek - EconWPA - 2002
In this paper we explain the prevalence of explicit contracts of employment, particularly those that embody high … agency characterized in and supported by the common law. The implication is that implicit employment contracts supported by … the common law are incapable of effectively governing employment relationship characterized by these two problems. Thus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076642
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Is corporatism feasible?
Acocella, Nicola; Bartolomeo, Giovanni Di - EconWPA - 2003
In this paper we consider a standard policy game between the Government and a union. In such a framework, we first investigate the effects of corporatism on macroeconomic performance vis-à-vis different kinds of non-co-operative equilibria. Afterwards, we introduce in the literature the issue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076716
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What ever happened to Germany? Is the decline of the former European key currency country caused by structural sclerosis or by macroeconomic mismanagement?
Hein, Eckhard; Truger, Achim - EconWPA - 2005
employment and growth cannot unambiguously be derived from modern labour market theory and are at least partially at odds with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076737