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The scientist and the church
Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836969
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Inflation as restructuring. A theoretical and empirical account of the U.S. experience
Nitzan, Jonathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992
This work is a PhD dissertation, written at the Department of Economics, McGill University. The thesis offers a new framework for inflation as a process of restructuring. Contrary to existing theories of inflation, which tend to take structure and institutions as given for the purpose of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789620
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New imperialism or new capitalism?
Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621372
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Are Macroeconomic Variables Useful for Forecasting the Distribution of U.S. Inflation?
Manzan, Sebastiano; Zerom, Dawit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
indicators are useful in predicting the distribution of future inflation. To incorporate macroeconomic indicators into the … prediction of the conditional distribution of future inflation, we introduce a semi-parametric approach using conditional … different parts of the future inflation distribution. Using monthly data on US inflation, we find that unemployment rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836192
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Searching for Equitable Energy Price Reform for Indonesia
Yusuf, Arief Anshory; Resosudarmo, Budy P. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Economic structure, households energy consumption pattern, and household's pattern of factor income in developing countries may typically be different with those of the developed countries, hence the distributional impact of energy price reforms could be. This may be portrayed using a Computable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837007
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Metody dostarczania towarów przez polskie sklepy internetowe – wyniki badań
Chodak, Grzegorz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In this article the results of surveys realized in 607 Polish e-shops were presented. First part of this word characterizes online stores in the context of number of purchases. The main part of article shows the analysis concerning methods of delivering purchases in Polish online stores. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258140
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Analysis of institutional adaptability to redress electricity infrastructure vulnerability due to climate change
Foster, John; Bell, William Paul; Wild, Phillip; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
transmission and distribution infrastructure due to climate change requiring the deployment of technology to defer investment in … transmission and distribution; lacking mechanisms to develop a diversified portfolio of generation technology and energy sources to … electricity prices are investment in transmission and distribution and fossil fuel prices. Peak demand drives the investment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258290
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Households' saving mobility in Poland
Liberda, Barbara; Peczkowski, Marek - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
distribution of households according to the saving rates. Our results show that the long term households’ distribution reveals a … 1997-2000 and 2007-2010 the long term change in the distribution of households was asymmetrical toward the highest saving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259111
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Pareto-Efficiency, Hayek’s Marvel, and the Invisible Executor
Kakarot-Handtke, Egmont - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
information processing through the price system, and distribution. The point of entry is a transparent example of Pareto …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260221
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The simple analytics of oligopoly banking in developing economies
Khemraj, Tarron - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
foreign interest rate. Then, using a diagrammatic framework, the paper provides an analysis of: (i) the distribution of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008622255