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Industrial efficiency and state intervention : Labour 1939-51

Tiratsoo, Nick; Tomlinson, Jim - 1993 - 1. publ.

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The production of technologists and robotization in Japan

Morishima, Michio - 1985

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Review of Bryan Caplan’s The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

Caselli, Francesco - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

This bold, imaginative book advances an entirely new theory of voters’ behavior.The starting point for this theory is that individuals are endowed with a set of beliefs, ora worldview, and derive psychological benefits from acting in accordance with these beliefs.However, the beliefs of most...

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How The Mind Worked: Some Obstacles And Developments In The Popularisation Of Psychology

Adams, Jon - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

untenable today. Looking here at the popularisation of psychology, this paper demonstrates how those unifying theories have …

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Interdisciplinarity “In the Making”: Modelling Infectious Diseases

Mattila, Erika - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

The main contribution of this paper to current philosophical and sociological studies on modelling is to analyse modelling as an object-oriented interdisciplinary activity and thus to bring new insights into the wide, heterogeneous discourse on tools, forms and organisation of interdisciplinary...

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Experimental Farming and Ricardo’s Political Arithmetic of Distribution

Morgan, Mary S. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

The development of David Ricardo’s economic theory of distribution -the laws that determine the share of output between the economic classes -depended on specific connections at several levels between two practicalsciences of the early 19th century, namely experimental agriculture andpolitical...

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Social Indicators and the Study of Inequality

Meyers, Marcia K.; Garfinkel, Irwin - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

[...]The New York City Social Indicators Survey (SIS)project represents one effort to track the consequences ofpolicy reform and devolution for inequality and well-beingin the largest and most diverse city in the United States.The project uses a telephone survey to collect data from arepeated...

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The Anglo-German Productivity Puzzle, 1895-1935: A Restatement and a Possible Resolution

Ritschl, Albrecht - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

Recent research on international productivity comparisons has focused on the discrepancies between benchmark … productivity lead of 50 percent, evidence that they therefore discard. The present paper revisits this Anglo-German productivity … Germany’s industrial production series. I also calculate a revised 1907 productivity benchmark. Both the revised extrapolation …

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Origins of Catch-up Failure: Comparative Productivity Growth in the Hapsburg Empire, 1870-1910

Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

This paper examines patterns of structural change and labour productivity growth in the late nineteenth … capital growth, it seeks to address three questions: First, what was the role of labour productivity growth in per capita … labour productivity growth in Austria-Hungary as compared to Germany? The paper argues that, in contrast to the Hungarian …

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