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vocal about firms' social responsibility activities, and among larger institutions and firms, which tend to attract more …
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This paper considers the effect of the First World War on large-scale businesses in Second … the construction of massive steel works in Brazil and other industrializing countries around the world. These investments … would provide the foundation for the import-substituting policies of the post-World War II era …
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The history of innovation in the chemical industry offers many insights for accelerating energy innovation. In this … chapter, we begin by laying out the early history of the chemical industry for an overview of the role innovation has played …
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Regulation consists of rulemaking and enforcement. Economic theory offers two complementary rationales for regulating financial institutions. Altruistic public-benefits theories treat rules as governmental instruments for increas- ing fairness and efficiency across society as a whole....
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monetary unions intact. Our main lesson from the history of monetary unions is that political factors will be the central …
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the reasons why these two forces moved largely in parallel in the decades leading up to World War I, collapsed during the …
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Within-country ethnic diversity in high-wage immigrant nations is driven by long distance migration. This paper documents the migration-diversity connection for the first global century before 1914 and the second global century after 1950. It distinguishes between ethnic diversity among the...
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live longer. We review the determinants of these patterns: over history, over countries, and across groups within countries …
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until the First World War. News events and macroeconomic variables cannot account for this extended period of reduced …
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the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel's work places great emphasis on nutrition, not only for the history …
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