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The emergence of a knowledge capitalism is often considered as an alternative to a financial capitalism. Our goal is to … explain why the financial capitalism hypothesis is not relevant to characterize and to show that the hypothesis of a knowledge … capitalism can provide an explanation of the growth and the importance of finance. Three topics are considered:(1) the new forms …
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return to a patrimonial society, corporations become political actors; occupational status and education's relevance are …
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fundamental law of capitalism originated by Thomas Piketty illustrate capital inequality undervalued than labor inequality. In …
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fundamental law of capitalism originated by Thomas Piketty illustrate capital inequality undervalued than labor inequality. In …
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The present paper examines the meaning and usefulness of the concept of a New Economy. This construct, which first began to appear in the media in the mid-1990s, is utilised today with a variety of definitions and intentions. Having identified three possible denotations or orientations relating...
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Humans often lie strategically. We study this problem in an ultimatum game involving informed proposers and uninformed responders, where the former can send an unverifiable statement about their endowment. If there are some intrinsically honest proposers, a simple message game shows that the...
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This paper presents the results of a laboratory experiment in which workers perform a real-effort task and supervisors report the workers' performance to the experimenter. The report is non verifiable and determines the earnings of both the supervisor and the worker. We find that not all the...
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Humans can lie strategically in order to leverage on their negotiation power. For instance, governments can claim that a "scapegoat" third party is responsible for reforms that impose higher costs on citizens, in order to make the pill sweeter. This paper analyzes such communication strategy...
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accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample … motives and envy. Children with stronger social preferences are less prone to deception, even when lying would benefit others …
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This paper proposes an equilibrium approach to deception where deception is defined to be the process by which actions … theories compatible with the available information. We illustrate the phenomenon of deception and how reputation concerns may … deception affects standard economic insights through a number of stylized applications including a monitoring game and two …
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