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Marshall's Economies
Henderson, Vernon - 1999
This paper estimates the nature and magnitude of the local externalities from own industry scale, as envisioned by Marshall. Census panel data on individual plants in high-tech and machinery industries across up to 487 countries are utilized, to quantify the direct effects of local external...
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The Macroeconomist as Scientist and Engineer
Mankiw, N. Gregory - 2006
This essay offers a brief history of macroeconomics, together with an evaluation of what has been learned over the past several decades. It is based on the premise that the field has evolved through the efforts of two types of macroeconomist-- those who understand the field as a type of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466316
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'Morality and Political Economy' from the Vantage Point of Economics
Enke, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
recent economics research on prominent ideas in moral psychology. First, the theory that morality is ultimately economically … politico-economic outcomes influence each other if they engage with research in economics …
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The Incubator of Human Capital : The NBER and the Rise of the Human Capital Paradigm
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2020
The human capital construct is deep in the bones of economics and finds reference by many classical economists, even if … they did not use the phrase. The term "human capital," seldom mentioned in economics before the 1950s, increased starting … to 2019, the use of human capital among NBER books increased from 5% to 25%, whereas all economics books changed from 3 …
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The Contribution of a Monetary History of the United States : 1867 to 1960 To Monetary History
Bordo, Michael D. - 1988
This paper assesses the role of Friedman and Schwartz's "A Monetary History of the United Slates: 1867 to 1960" as a progenitor of research in monetary history. The paper critically surveys the literature on three major themes in the book: monetary disturbances; the domestic monetary framework...
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Women in Academic Economics : Have We Made Progress?
Ginther, Donna K.; Kahn, Shulamit Beth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
economics. We found that women in economics were 15% less likely to be promoted to associate professor after controlling for …
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Bargaining over Taxes and Entitlements in the Era of Unequal Growth
Azzimonti, Marina; Karpuska, Laura; Mihalache, Gabriel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Entitlement programs have become an increasing component of total government spending in the US over the last six decades. To some observers, this growth of the welfare state is excessive and unwarranted. To others, it is a welcome counter-acting force to the rapid increase in income inequality....
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Gender Gaps at the Academies
Card, David E.; Della Vigna, Stefano; Funk, Patricia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
publications in the top journals in three fields - Psychology, Mathematics and Economics - and develop a series of models to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388866
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Gender and Underrepresented Minority Differences in Research Funding
Cruz Castro, Laura; Ginther, Donna K.; Sanz Menéndez, Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This chapter reviews the data and literature on gender, race and ethnicity differences in research funding in the United States and Europe. The gender gap in research funding has closed at the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health in the United States and substantially...
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