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National time accounting: the currency of life / Alan B. Krueger, Daniel Kahneman, David Schkade, Norbert Schwarz, and Arthur A. Stone -- That which makes life worthwhile / George Loewenstein -- Measuring national well being / David M. Cutler -- National time accounting and national economic...
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Research has repeatedly shown that altruism is lower in diverse communities. Can this phenomenon be counteracted by government intervention? To answer this question, this paper introduces diversity to the canonical model of "warm glow" giving. Diversity may have two effects on incentives: it may...
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anticipated the collapse of the first era of globalization that began in the mid-nineteenth century. He admonished the short … organize: World War I, Bretton Woods, 1970s Great Inflation and Managed Floating. Each turning point was characterized by …
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labor regulation of partners because intraindustry trade was important. The New World exported less differentiated products …
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never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the … of life deep into the 18th century. Does world market integration breed more or less commodity price volatility? The … been associated with much greater commodity price volatility, while world market integration associated with peace and pro …
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W. Arthur Lewis argued that a new international economic order emerged between 1870 and 1913, and that global terms of trade forces produced rising primary product specialization and de-industrialization in the poor periphery. More recently, modern economists argue that volatility reduces growth...
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Recent research in international economic history has opened up new lines of enquiry on the origins of globalization …
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world commodity and factor markets, history offers an unambiguous positive correlation between globalization and convergence … years were also ones of economic autarky and 'de-globalization', while the rest were ones of increasing globalization in …. But is the correlation spurious? When the pre-World War I years are examined in detail, the correlation turns out to be …
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This paper addresses the interactions between globalization, the quality of democracy, and economic convergence using … and globalization. To reflect context, as defined by space (geography) and time (history), we control for the distance to … and globalization put forward by Eichengreen and Leblang (2008) for the period 1870-2000. Focusing on the more recent wave …
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