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Why Doesn't Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries?

Tella, Rafael Di - 2007

corruption, which is more widespread in poor countries, reduces more the electoral appeal of capitalism than that of socialism …

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Cigarette Excise Taxation : The Impact of Tax Structure on Prices, Revenues, and Cigarette Smoking

Chaloupka, Frank J, IV. - 2010

The main purpose of this study is to provide empirical evidence on the effects of the cigarette excise tax structure on three outcomes: cigarette prices, government revenues, and cigarette consumption. We composed cross-sectional time-series data for 21 EU countries from year 1998 to 2007 from...

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Detecting Illegal Arms Trade

DellaVigna, Stefano - 2007

Illegal arms are responsible for thousands of deaths in civil wars every year. Yet, their trade is very hard to detect. We propose a method to statistically detect illegal arms trade based on the investor knowledge embedded in financial markets. We focus on eight countries under UN arms embargo...

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A Workers' Lobby to Provide Portable Benefits

Hersch, Joni - 2003

How can workers have a voice in the face of declining unionization and rising nontraditional career paths? To demonstrate how a new labor market institution can emerge, I develop a model of fundraising by a workers' organization in which the founder must allocate resources between the provision...

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Unions, Workers, and Wages at the Peak of the American Labor Movement

Callaway, Brantly - 2017

We study a novel dataset compiled from archival records, which includes information on men's wages, union status, educational attainment, work history, and other background variables for several cities circa 1950. Such data are extremely rare for the early post-war period when U.S. unions were...

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State Versus Private Ownership

Shleifer, Andrei - 1998

costs must be strong. In essence, this is the case for capitalism over socialism, explaining the dynamic vitality' of free … enterprise. The great economists of the 1930s and 1940s failed to see the dangers of socialism in part because they focused on … the role of prices under socialism and capitalism and ignored the enormous importance of ownership as the source of …

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Pervasive Shortages Under Socialism

Shleifer, Andrei - 1991

We present a new theory of pervasive shortages under socialism, based on the assumption that the planners are self … suggests that market socialism is bound to fail even without computational complexities facing the planners …

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Left, Right, Left : Income, Learning and Political Dynamics

Morrow, John - 2013

The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. This paper generalizes the forward-looking voter model to a broad range of dynamic, non-concave income...

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Financial Crisis in a Socialist Setting : Impact on Political Behavior, Social Trust, and Economic Values

Abramitzky, Ran; Ben-Porath, Netanel; Lavy, Victor; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Research on the political and social impacts of financial crises has focused chiefly on free market economies, hindering our understanding of their effects in other settings. We exploit an episode of a financial crisis that hit the Israeli kibbutzim to study its impact in a socialist context....

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Peronist Beliefs and Interventionist Policies

Tella, Rafael Di - 2010

We study the logic of Peronist interventionist polices and the beliefs that support them. Instead of a comprehensive approach, we focus on three elements. First, we study beliefs and values about the economic system present in Peron's speeches during the period 1943-55. Second, we study survey...

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