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Globalization, Growth and Crises : The View from Latin America
Edwards, Sebastian - 2008
In this paper I analyze the role of openness and globalization in Latin America's economic development. The paper is …
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Globalization in Latin America Before 1940
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2003
globalization? Why was industrialization so weak? Why was inequality on the rise? This paper offers an answer to these questions. It … massive de-globalization during the decades of lost growth' between the 1820s and the 1870s. Next, it documents what happened … World War I, while it fell thereafter. The correlation between globalization and inequality is likely to have been causal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469011
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Globalization and Inequality in Latin America
Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … that focus on distinct aspects of globalization's relationship to inequality …
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Populism and the Economics of Globalization
Rodrik, Dani - 2017
history and economic theory both provide ample grounds for anticipating that advanced stages of economic globalization would … different reactions are related to the relative salience of different types of globalization shocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455123
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Searching for the EU Social Dialogue Model
Freeman, Richard B. - 2006
The European Union and the United States operate different variants of market capitalism. The EU model uses social dialogue institutions to help determine economic outcomes, particularly in the labor market, whereas the US relies more on market forces. The theory of competitive markets provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466363
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Who is Neoliberal? Durkheimian Individualism and Support for Market Mechanisms
Landier, Augustin; Thesmar, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper investigates the drivers of support for market mechanisms (competition and optimizing behavior by agents). We elicit such attitudes using concrete and simplified situations where respondents face a tradeoff between an economically efficient situation and a pro-social objective. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191037
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Unity in Diversity? How Intergroup Contact Can Foster Nation Building
Bazzi, Samuel - 2019
We use a population resettlement program in Indonesia to identify long-run effects of intergroup contact on national integration. In the 1980s, the government relocated two million ethnically diverse migrants into hundreds of new communities. We find greater integration in fractionalized...
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Building Nations Through Shared Experiences : Evidence from African Football
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio - 2018
We examine whether shared collective experiences can help build a national identity, by looking at the impact of national football teams' victories in sub- Saharan Africa. Combining individual survey data with information on official matches played between 2000 and 2015, we find that individuals...
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National Cultures and Soccer Violence
Miguel, Edward - 2008
Can some acts of violence be explained by a society's "culture"? Scholars have found it hard to empirically disentangle the effects of culture, legal institutions, and poverty in driving violence. We address this problem by exploiting a natural experiment offered by the presence of thousands of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464681
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Capitalizing Patriotism : The Liberty Loans of World War I
Kang, Sung Won - 2006
In World War I the Secretary of the Treasury, William Gibbs McAdoo, hoped to create a broad market for government bonds, the famous Liberty Loans, by following an aggressive policy of "capitalizing patriotism." He called on everyone from Wall Street bankers to the Boy Scouts to volunteer for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466752