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This paper aims to facilitate the understanding of the phenomena of poverty and inequality in the Peruvian society and, by extension, in other countries in Latin America through the use of the novel “Un mundo para Julius” by Alfredo Bryce Echenique with the framework proposed by the World...
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Internet increasingly serves not only to communication between it's users. The emergence of Web 2.0 platforms which are peculiar to publication of various content (including images, movies, music, links to interesting sites) allowed to release of activity and commitment of millions of people...
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We study the economic structure of the life of Harry Potter and his co-actors as an economic model that governs the social organization of their economic activities. Our goal is to study and understand the internal consistency of the Potterian economic model and explore the relationships between...
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Economics does not need a scientific revolution. Economics needs accurate measurements according to high standards of …
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This paper focuses on induction, because the supposed weaknesses of that process are the main reason for favouring falsificationism, which plays an important part in scientific methodology generally; the paper is part of a wider study of economic methodology. The standard objections to, and...
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Interest in thermodynamic analogies in economics is older than the idea of von Neumann to look for market entropy in … liquidity, advice that was not taken in any thermodynamic analogy presented so far in the literature. In this paper we go …
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Mathematics has been extremely effective in physics, but not in economics beyond finance. To establish economics as …
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economics operate with its overall accepted concepts such as: capital, labour force, offer, demand, money, unemployment, market … have proved. We need an appropriate apparatus, suitable insights to handle the nearly future: to rewrite the economics. As …
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This article outlines work in progress on a study of technological choice in the context of North-South development. Its main purpose is to describe the methodology being developed in the pilot phase of the study. This is of interest because it links together a number of analytic...
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The notion of ‘sustainable development’ was introduced on the political agenda by the World Commission on Environment and Development through its report (WCED, 1987), also called the Brundtland Report. Since the publication of the Brundtland Report the notion of sustainability has been used...
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