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Diversity and specialisation in cities: why, where and when does it matter?

Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

specialisation and diversity? To what extent does the structure of cities, and the activities of the firms and people in them, change …

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Social identity and redistributive preferences: a survey

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Social identity is increasingly accepted as a key concept underpin- ning the endogeneity of economic behaviour and preferences. This feature is especially important in explaining redistribution preferences as well as attitudes towards redistribution and pro-social behaviour. This paper carries...

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Nursery cities: urban diversity, process innovation and the life-cycle of products

Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

A simple model of process innovation is proposed, where firms learn about their ideal production process by making prototypes. We build around this a dynamic general equilibrium model, and derive conditions under which diversified and specialised cities coexist. New products are developed in...

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Immigrant diversity and economic development in cities: a critical review

Kemeny, Thomas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper reviews a growing literature investigating how ‘immigrant’ diversity relates to urban economic performance …

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Voice, silence, and diversity in 21st century organizations: strategies for inclusion of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender employees

Bell, Myrtle P.; Özbilgin, Mustafa F.; Beauregard, T. … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

insufficient attention to diversity of workers (Rank, 2009). As invisible minorities, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT …

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Diversity and redistribution

Fernández, Raquel; Levy, Gilat - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

) goods. We show that taste conflict first dilutes but later reinforces class interests. When the degree of taste diversity is …. As taste diversity increases in society, the set of equilibrium policies becomes more and more tilted towards special … interest groups and against general redistribution. As diversity increases further, however, only general redistribution …

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The economics of poverty in poor countries

Dasgupta, Partha - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

This article examines the links that have recently been studied between poverty, high fertility and undernourishment, on the one hand, and degradation of the local environmental-resource base and civic disconnection, on the other, in poor countries. An account is offered of a number of pathways...

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Does social insurance help secure property rights?

MacCulloch, Robert - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

This paper develops a simple model to show how social insurance affects the desire to revolt against property rights. It then tests for the effect of social insurance on revolt by introducing a panel data set derived from surveys across 200,000 randomly sampled individuals from the 1970s to the...

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What makes a revolution?

MacCulloch, Robert - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

Although property rights are the cornerstone of capitalist economics, throughout history existing claims have been frequently overturned and redefined by revolution. A fundamental question for economists is what makes revolutions more likely to occur. A large literature has found contradictory...

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Right to the city and critical reflections on property rights activism in China’s urban renewal contexts

Shin, Hyun Bang - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

The rapid transformation of urban socio-spatial landscape in China has resulted in an increasing degree of frustration and discontent among local residents who face threats of demolition and eviction. This has given rise to sporadic protests by local residents who are often known as ‘nail...

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