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The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
Thomas Piketty's (2014) book, Capital in the 21st Century, follows in the tradition of the great classical economists, like Marx and Ricardo, in formulating general laws of capitalism to diagnose and predict the dynamics of inequality. We argue that general economic laws are unhelpful as a guide...
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Population Growth, Technological Adoption and Economic Outcomes : A Theory of Cross-Country Differences for the Information Era
Beaudry, Paul - 2001
The object of this paper is to show how population growth, through its interaction with recent technological and organizational developments, can account for many of the cross-country differences in economic outcome observed among industrialized countries over the last 20 years. In particular,...
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Sacks, Daniel W. - 2010
most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is …
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World Technology Usage Lags
Comin, Diego A. - 2006
across the world. We do so by calculating how many years ago these technologies were used in the U.S. at the same intensity …
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Development, Structure, and Transformation : Some Evidence on Comparative Economic Growth
McCord, Gordon C. - 2013
We suggest that the geographical patterns of income differences across the world have deep underpinnings. We emphasize … characteristics of economies. Per capita incomes differ around the world in no small part because of sharp differences across regions … middle income; the distribution of economic activity around the world today; the patterns of growth between 1960 and 2010 …
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The Great Escape : A Review Essay on Fogel's 'The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100'
Deaton, Angus - 2005
In this essay, I review Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 which is concerned with the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel's work places great emphasis on nutrition, not only for the history of health, but for explaining aspects of current health,...
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The Value of Luminosity Data as a Proxy for Economic Statistics
Chen, Xi - 2010
One of the pervasive issues in social and environmental research has been to improve the quality of socioeconomic data in developing countries. Because of the shortcoming of standard data sources, the present study examines luminosity (measures of nighttime lights) as a proxy for standard...
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How Globalization Affects Tax Design
Hines, James R, Jr - 2009
The economic changes associated with globalization tighten financial pressures on governments of high-income countries by increasing the demand for government spending while making it more costly to raise tax revenue. Greater international mobility of economic activity, and associated...
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Which Countries Become Tax Havens?
Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2006
This paper analyzes the factors influencing whether countries become tax havens. Roughly 15 percent of countries are tax havens; as has been widely observed, these countries tend to be small and affluent. This paper documents another robust empirical regularity: better-governed countries are...
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Size Really Doesn't Matter : In Search of a National Scale Effect
Rose, Andrew K. - 2006
I search for a "scale" effect in countries. I use a panel data set that includes 200 countries over forty years and link the population of a country to a host of economic and social phenomena. Using both graphical and statistical techniques, I search for an impact of size on the level of income,...
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