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How Politically Diverse Are the Social Sciences and Humanities? Survey Evidence from Six Fields

Klein, Daniel B.; Stern, Charlotta - Ratioinstitutet - 2004

In Spring 2003, a large-scale survey of American academics was conducted using academic association membership lists from six fields: Anthropology, Economics, History, Philosophy (political and legal), Political Science, and Sociology. This paper focuses on one question: To which political party...

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How Many Democrats per Republican at UC-Berkeley and Stanford? Voter Registration Data Across 23 Academic Departments

Klein, Daniel B.; Western, Andrew - Ratioinstitutet - 2004

Using the records of the seven San Francisco Bay Area counties that surround University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University, we conducted a systematic and thorough study of the party registration of the Berkeley and Stanford faculty in 23 academic departments. The departments span...

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Corporative cartels and challenges to European labour market models

Karlson, Nils; Lindberg, Henrik - Ratioinstitutet - 2012

Abstract We propose that one of the main causes of shortcomings in European labour markets is the existence of corporative cartels, through which the state has delegated various forms of regulatory power to employers and employees that act as cartels. Analysis indicates that these cartel...

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The Growth Effects of Institutional Instability

Berggren, Niclas; Bergh, Andreas; Bjørnskov, Christian - Ratioinstitutet - 2009

Both institutional quality and institutional stability have been argued to stimulate economic growth. But to improve institutional quality, a country must endure a period of institutional change, which implies at least a little and possibly a lot of institutional instability. We investigate the...

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Markets vs. Government when Rationality Is Unequally Bounded: Some Consequences of Cognitive Inequalities for Theory and Policy

Pelikan, Pavel - Ratioinstitutet - 2006

Recognizing that human rationality has bounds that are unequal across individuals entails treating it as a special scarce resource, tied to individuals and used for deciding on its own uses. This causes a meta-mathematical difficulty to the axiomatic theories of human capital and resource...

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Interconnecting Ecolutionary, Institutional and Cognitive Economics: Six Steps towards Understanding the Six Links

Pelikan, Pavel - Ratioinstitutet - 2004

Many students of evolutionary, institutional, and cognitive economics have been aware that important links among these fields exist, and several authors have worked on bringing these links to light. Nevertheless, large parts of these links still remain poorly understood. Low interest in...

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The Institutions of Economic Freedom and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Panel Data

Nyström, Kristina - Ratioinstitutet - 2008

This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of entrepreneurship across countries. The paper investigates the relationship between the institutional setting, in terms of economic freedom, and entrepreneurship, as measured by self-employment in a panel data setting covering 23 OECD...

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Bringing Institutions Into Evolutionary Economics: Another View with Links to Changes in Physical and Social Technologies

Pelikan, Pavel - Ratioinstitutet - 2003

Like Nelson (2002), I make a case for bringing institutions into evolutionary economics. But unlike Nelson, who defines … institutions as social technologies consisting of rules-routines, I define them in agreement with North (1990) as humanly devised … communicating with modern institutional analysis, for clarifying how institutions can influence, and be influenced by, changes in …

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Securing Constitutional Government: The Perpetual Challenge

Ratnapala, Suri - Ratioinstitutet - 2003

Constitutional government is an ideal and like all ideals can only be achieved as an approximation. Even those countries that appear to be near the ideal are revealed on examination to be not so near. Constitutional government, to the extent it is achieved reflects a state of affairs. It remains...

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Property Rights and Economic Growth

Rosenberg, Nathan - Ratioinstitutet - 2003

My main purpose is to connect the issue of property rights to the set of questions concerning economic growth and the long-term determinants of the improvements in material well-being. To anticipate what will be my main conclusion, it is that property rights and economic growth are not...

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