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Capitalizing China
Fan, Joseph - 2011
Despite a vast accumulation of private capital, China is not embracing capitalism. Deceptively familiar capitalist …
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Welfare State vs. Market Forces in a Globalization Era
Razin, Assaf - 2019
Globalization radically changes income distribution and triggers intense international tax competition. Therefore …, globalization entails an extensive restructuring of the welfare state. We analyze a parsimonious model of an open economy, in its … trade and finance transactions with the rest of the world, governed by voter-majority-controlled welfare state. We analyze …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480145
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Learning the Wealth of Nations
Buera, Francisco J. - 2008
substantial reversal to state intervention if nowadays the world was hit by a shock of the size of the Great Depression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464054
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People's Opium? Religion and Economic Attitudes
Guiso, Luigi - 2002
institutional factors. We use the World Values Surveys to identify the relationship between intensity of religious beliefs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469472
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Capitalism and Democracy in 2040 : Forecasts and Speculations
Fogel, Robert W. - 2007
While the economies of the fifteen countries that were in the European Union (EU15) in 2000 will continue to grow from now until 2040, they will not be able to match the surges in growth that will occur in South and East Asia. In 2040, the Chinese economy will reach $123 trillion, or nearly...
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Capital and Wealth in the 21st Century
Weil, David N. - 2015
In Capital in the 21st Century, Thomas Piketty uses the market value of tradeable assets to measure both productive capital and wealth. As a measure of wealth this is problematic because it ignores the value of human capital and transfer wealth, which have grown enormously over the last 300...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457747
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The Cambridge History of "Capitalism"
Temin, Peter - 2014
This review essay of the two-volume Cambridge History of Capitalism (2014), edited by Larry Neal and Jeffrey G … economists to add depth to their understanding of the world economy today. Robert C. Allen analyzes the world distribution of … criticize the definition of capitalism used in these volumes as too expansive to be useful. I argue that this definition mars …
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The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - 2014
, like Marx and Ricardo, in formulating general laws of capitalism to diagnose and predict the dynamics of inequality. We …
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International dimensions of monetary policy : [... presented at the NBER Conference "International Dimensions of Monetary Policy", which was held June 11 through 13, 2007 ... in th...
Galí, Jordi (contributor); Gertler, Mark (contributor) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003825525
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Internationalization and the evolution of corporate valuation
Levine, Ross - 2005
"By documenting the evolution of Tobin's "q" before, during, and after firms internationalize, this paper provides evidence on the bonding, segmentation, and market timing theories of internationalization. Using new data on 9,096 firms across 74 countries over the period 1989-2000, we find that...
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