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The monography considers laws and mechanisms of social development from positions of positivism, dialectic materialism and the theory of systems. The methodology of the author is based on causality in relations of a society and social institutes. Social development is considered as result of...
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The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...
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Over the past century, the institution of capital and the process of its accumulation have been fundamentally transformed. By contrast, the theories that explain this institution and process have remained largely unchanged. The purpose of this paper is to address this mismatch. Using a broad...
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Dutch noble families have held more elite positions than high bourgeois families during the 20th century, and this … from public elite positions towards more elite positions in the cultural and business sector. Although this move into elite … position in other sectors does not fully compensate for the decline of elite positions in the public sector, it highlights an …
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This article estimates returns to scale and monopolistic markups on a large sample of Polish firms in the manufacturing and services sectors during 1996-2004. Methodology based on instrumental variables allows joint estimation of both, scale elasticities as well as markups, while the unobserved...
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hurry to enter the Eurozone), and not backed by the economic reality, is in a stark contrast with Poland’s reserved attitude … (taking into consideration the fact that the Poland has the highest rate of economic growth in Europe), which expresses the …
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The correlation analysis was conducted on dynamic of GDP and company failure rate for Poland, Europe and USA for the … corporate failure in Poland and the rate of change of overall company’s net turnover profitability - no statistically …
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This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that income and consumption inequality in Poland increased substantially …
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The study presented in this chapter, not only presents one of the first applications of the choice experiment method to value benefits from reduction in flood risk in Europe, but also aims to estimate the value of biodiversity, in addition to the local household’s demand for recreational...
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Expertise on changes in the socio-economic situation of the support area of the Neighbourhood Programme Poland …
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