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Michalopulos, Stelios; Rauh, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Why are certain movies more successful in some markets than others? Are the entertainment products we consume reflective of our core values and beliefs? These questions drive our investigation into the relationship between a society's oral tradition and the financial success of films. We combine...

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Roots of Inequality

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Wainstock, Daniel C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

societies can be attributed to variation in societal interpersonal diversity, shaped during the prehistoric Out-of-Africa … from Africa …

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Innovation, entrepreneurship and culture : the interaction between technology, progress and economic growth

Brown, Terrence E. (contributor); Ulijn, J. M. (contributor) - 2004

1. Innovation, entrepreneurship and culture, a matter of interaction between technology, progress and economic growth … of hope? -- 7. Entrepreneurship and the design process : the paradox of innovation in a routine design process -- 8 …. Culture's role in entrepreneurship : self-employment out of dissatisfaction -- 9. Towards cooperation between European start …

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Tracing Sustainability in the Long Run : Genuine Savings Estimates 1850 - 2018

McLaughlin, Eoin; Ducoing, Cristián; Oxley, Les - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We introduce a new database of historical Genuine Savings (GS), an indicator of sustainable development promoted by the World Bank and widely used in contemporary economic research. GS derives from the theoretical work on wealth accounting, and addresses shortcomings in conventional metrics of...

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Can Patience Account for Subnational Differences in Student Achievement? Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Sancassani, Pietro; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data -...

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The Economics of Cultural Transmission and Socialization

Bisin, Alberto - 2010

Cultural transmission arguably plays an important role in the determination of many fundamental preference traits (e.g., discounting, risk aversion and altruism) and most cultural traits, social norms, and ideological tenets ( e.g., attitudes towards family and fertility practices, and attitudes...

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Law and economics from an evolutionary perspective

Atkinson, Glen W. - 2016

1. Evolutionary method in law and economics -- 2. Causes and consequences of the widening of the market: a case of cumulative economic evolution -- 3. The corporate form and the state -- 4. Interstate commerce and state regulation of business -- 5. Interstate commerce and federal regulation of...

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Applied evolutionary economics and complex systems

Foster, John (contributor); Hölzl, Werner (contributor) - European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics … - 2004

: some evidence from the first IT regime -- 7. An evolutionary approach to the theory of entrepreneurship -- 8. Shakeout in …

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Capitalism in evolution : global contentions-- East and West

Hodgson, Geoffrey Martin (contributor); … - 2001

Contributors to this volume argue that to understand capitalism in evolution, this diversity of systems and approaches must be taken into account and their individual evolutions analysed. This book represents a major understanding of the evolution of capitalism in the twenty first century and...

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Corporate technological competence and the evolution of technological diversification

Fai, Felicia M. - 2003

Drawing upon evolutionary economics and resource-based approaches, the author utilises US patent data from 1930-1990 to examine the persistence of corporate technological competencies and their gradual erosion through diversifying incremental change. The book explores the changing nature of this...

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