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Directed Technical Change and Capital Deepening: A Reconsideration of Kaldor’s Technical Progress Function
Schlicht, Ekkehart - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
production function with Kaldor’s technical progress function while maintaining a marginalist theory of factor prices in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210870
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Directed Technical Change and Capital Deepening: A Reconsideration of Kaldor’s Technical Progress Function
Schlicht, Ekkehart - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
production function with Kaldor’s technical progress function while maintaining a marginalist theory of factor prices in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210877
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George Orwell as a Public Choice Economist
Makovi, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
George Orwell is famous for his two final fictions, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. These two works are sometimes understood to defend capitalism against socialism. But as Orwell was a committed socialist, this could not have been his intention. Orwell's criticisms were directed not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274383
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Economic thought of Ibn al-Qayyim (1292–1350)
Islahi, Abdul Azim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1982
This paper seeks to report and analyse the economic thought of Ibn al-Qayyim, a great thinker of Islam. He discussed mainly the problems of price control, market mechanism, supervision of economic activities (al-hisbah), riches and poverty, interest and zakah, at different places in his numerous...
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Economic Thought of al-Ghazali
Islahi, Abdul Azim; Ghazanfar, Shaikh Mohammad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
Al-Ghazali′s economics is anchored on five necessary Shari‘ah -mandated foundations of individual and social life: religion, life, family, property, and intellect. He focuses on the economic aspects of maslahah (social utility), distinguishing between necessities, comforts and luxuries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258857
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The discontents of Marxism
Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This is a pre-publication version of a full-length review of Kuhn, R. (2007) Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism. Urbana and U of Illinois. Please cite as Freeman, A. 2008. ‘The Discontents of Marxism’. Debatte, 16 (1), April 2008 pp. 122-131
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258894
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If they're so rich, why ain't they smart? Another prelude to the critique of economic theory
Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997
't They Smart? Another Prelude to the Critique of Economic Theory (November 6, 1997). European Association for Evolutionary … scientific enquiry. This is illustrated by a detailed discussion of the profession’s treatment of Marx’s value theory. It has … substituted, for Marx’s own theory, an equilibrium ‘reading’ of Marx that removes, from the theory, its capacity to explain crisis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259319
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Two Concepts of ‘Centre Of Gravity’: Commentary on Contributions by Gary Mongiovi and Fred Moseley
Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
This paper was submitted to the 2001 conference of the International Working Group on Value Theory at the Eastern … Economists, that in Marx’s theory, equilibrium or simultaneous prices of production play the role of a ‘centre of gravity’ around …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259611
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Economic Ideas of Rifa`ah al-Tahtawi
Islahi, Abdul Azim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The present paper studies economic ideas of an Azharite graduate of the nineteenth century Egypt - Rifā‘ah Rāfi‘ al-Tahtāwī who was influenced by the French Scholars and Philosophers, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Mantesquieu. He wrote on significance of industry, productive and unproductive...
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British economists on competition policy (1890-1920)
Giocoli, Nicola - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Most late 19th-century US economists gave a rather cool welcome to the Sherman Act (1890) and, though less harshly, to the Clayton and FTC Acts (1914). A large literature has identified several explanations for this surprising attitude, calling into play the relation between big business and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259719