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The Economics of Politics vs the Politics of Economics: Nigerian case
Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Indeed, the recent emphasis on eco-political governance in Nigeria is unique in that it was initiated by external donors (international organizations) and not by domestic leaders under pressure from their own constituencies. Thus, while Nigeria have embraced the market economy and liberalized...
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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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The statistician's guide to Utopia: The future of growth
Tønnessen, Morten - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
population and Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The role of technology in relation to the environmental impact of economic activity … of the human population; the nature and extent of the economy and technology. Past GDP growth rates combined with UN …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497646
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National innovation rates: the evidence for/against domestic institutions
Taylor, Mark Zachary - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Why are some countries more technologically innovative than others? The dominant explanation amongst political-economists is that domestic institutions determine national innovation rates. However, after decades of research, there is still no agreement on precisely how this happens, exactly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620148
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Technology policy: patent protection and industrial R&D subsidies in Turkey
Soyak, Alkan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
Some developing economies (especially East Asian Countries) have long imitated western technology. It means that these … economies adopted an imitative attitude to new industrial technologies with regard to technology policies. Some changes recently … stimulates the imitation of technology makes worried some rich countries, some measures against this development have been taken …
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Gerechtigkeit und Verteilungswirkungen der Gesundheitsreform 2007
Honekamp, Ivonne; Rehmann, Adelheid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Discussions of health care reforms are always tightly connected with the question of ensuring equity in financing health care. This paper analyses the German health care reform 2007 and its effect on the equity of health care financing. To do this Rawls’ and Nozick’s perceptions of justice...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008595624
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Zur Methodologie der technologischen Forschung in der Betriebswirtschaftslehre
Kirsch, Werner; Seidl, David; Aaken, Dominik van - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005157504
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Is Macroeconomics a Science?
Barnett, William A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper was written as the first draft of the invited Foreword for the book, Money and the Economy, by Apostolos Serletis. The paper provides a critical view of those areas in which methodology in economics deviates from that in the physical sciences, provides examples and illustrations of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836309
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Political orientation of government and stock market returns
Bialkowski, Jedrzej; Gottschalk, Katrin; Wisniewski, Tomasz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Prior research documented that U.S. stock prices tend to grow faster during Democratic administrations than during Republican administrations. This letter examines whether stock returns in other countries also depend on the political orientation of the incumbents. An analysis of 24 stock markets...
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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