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Perceptions of price fairness: An empirical research
Gielissen, R.; Dutilh, C.E.; Graafland, J.J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper researches factors that influence price fairness judgements. The empirical literature suggests several factors: reference prices, the costs of the seller, a self-interest bias and the perceived motive of sellers. Using a Dutch sample, we find empirical evidence that these factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490553
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Concepts of price fairness: Empirical research into the Dutch coffee market
Gielessen, R.; Graafland, J.J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper researches perceptions of the concept of price fairness in the Dutch coffee market. We distinguish four alternative standards of fair prices based on egalitarian, basic rights, capitalistic and libertarian approaches. We investigate which standards are guiding the perceptions of price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008545989
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Global Insecurity,Transparency and Sustainable Development:African Challenges
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
and corruption not only remain, they have become the primary development challenges of the 21st century. In particular … institutions and governance to provide citizen security, justice and jobs is crucial to break cycles of violence while stimulating … development in Africa. Furthermore, defeating a terrorist network requires African nations to work with international partners to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112282
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The modernity of backwardness
Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper revisits one of the classic debates on world capitalist development – the ‘transition to capitalism’ debate …. However the reverse happens, and development theory is deprived of an adequate explanation for national differentiation in … assesses the skewed character which results, in contemporary accounts (both within and outside economics) of development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836280
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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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Economic Growth, Financial and Trade Globalization in the Philippines: A Vector Autoregressive Analysis
Deluna, Roperto Jr; Chelly, Antiquisa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This study was conducted to examine the relationship among Economic Growth, Financial and trade Globalization in the … obtain the potential benefits of financial globalization in enhancing economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114465
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Poverty, Population, Inequality, and Development: the Historical Perspective
Chilosi, Alberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Seen in historical perspective the main economic predicaments of the present world (such as poverty, inequality, backwardness) appear in a somewhat different light than in many current discussions, especially by sociologists, radical economists and political scientists. In the present paper the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008776869
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Explaining national inequality: the relevance of Marx and the irrelevance of equilibrium
Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper was originally presented at the ‘Marxism and Political Economy’ conference called by the International Socialist Journal on Saturday 29th September 2007. A revised version was presented to the Historical Materialism conference on 13th November 2007. It enquires why, although...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790338
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The Poverty of Statistics
Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
goods masked a systematic failure, for much of the third world, to overcome the central problem of development – the high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034370
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The Organization of European Multinationals
Marin, Dalia; Rousová, Linda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Recent literature on international trade has established that the most productive firms become multinationals. But our data reveal a startling variation in productivity levels of foreign affiliates across the countries in Eastern Europe of the same European multinational parent firms suggesting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370945