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consumer demand as illustrated by the effect of Brazil’s poverty-elimination policies; most decisively, however, they make … bringing into being the type of workforce that is required to make use of leading-edge technology. On the other hand …, industrial development in the modern economy depends critically on human development, precisely because of modern technology …
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answers to the economic crisis, the social problems of a deeply unequal world, and to resource depletion and rape. Culture has … instruments needed to understand that culture is in fact the most economically important human activity, once the economy is … drive of culture is the opposite. The creative industries show that the present course of economic development is bumping up …
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This paper asks whether, and how, the state can solve the present crisis. The method of enquiry is to analyze what it did in the two comparable crises of 1893 and 1929. In each case, a prolonged and structural slowdown in the world economy was followed by financial crisis, a period of turmoil...
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This article reassesses the classic period of Import-Substituting Industrialisation (ISI) in Brazil between 1945 and … industries and firms. We also found that Brazil’s labour productivity growth lagged behind what was achieved in other …
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In diesem Beitrag zeigen wir, dass theoretische und technologische Aussagensysteme zwei eigenständige Forschungszweige darstellen und damit die Notwendigkeit erwächst, eine eigene Methodologie technologischer Aussagensysteme zu entwerfen. Wir stellen erste Ansatzpunkte vor, wie eine solche...
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We show that the countries of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy trade significantly more with one another in the aftermath of the collapse of the Iron Curtain than predicted by a standard gravity model. This trade surplus declines linearly and monotonically over time. We argue that these...
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Following Max Weber, many theories have hypothesized that Protestantism should have favored economic development. With its religious heterogeneity, the Holy Roman Empire presents an ideal testing ground for this hypothesis. Using population figures of 272 cities in the years 1300–1900, I find...
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This article provides information about the International Human Resource Management and discusses HRM according to the international prospective in Pakistan. In this article it is discussed that how environmental and cultural factors affect the recruitment, selection and industry/employee...
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What is the relationship between state capacity, national identity, and economic development? This paper argues that increases in state capacity can lower the collective action costs associated with political and economic exchange by encouraging the formation of a common identity. This...
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attention is drawn to the role that collectivism plays in influencing family culture and the way in which it manifests in … entrepreneurial activity throughout family generations. Collectivist societies and the family culture experienced by its individuals … collectivist society on the family business paradigm and explores how organisational and family culture become one, and the power …
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