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Modern political economies are distinguished from each other by the institutions that mediate actors’ interactions, falling somewhere along a spectrum between pure market and non-market mechanisms. But how did these institutions originally emerge? With regard to the financial sector, I argue...
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The article explores the problem of boudaries between economics and history. The richeness that derives by crossing the … boundaries is explained with examples from the history of contemporary Italy. …
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Nigeria was incorporated in 1914 when Frederick Lugard(First Governor-General) amalgamated the two British protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria and the Crown colony of Lagos into a single entity. The primary reason for almalgamation was economic rather than political. It is therefore,...
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This article assesses the extent and nature of the stimulus that will be required to end the economic crisis that opened in 2008. It compares the present economic situation to that which opened in 1929 and studies the relation between state spending, investment, and employment.
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‘Weapondollar-Petrodollar Coalition’ – but dismiss our ‘precise calibration of the oil/war nexus’ as ‘perfunctory.’ This dismissal …
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World War I the more democratic countries spent more for military purposes than autocracies whereas the reverse is true …
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, in spite of the fact that some are not robust. The war remains damaging to the peace and this in a robust manner. It is …
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During history, an aggressive country seeks to force non-aggressive countries to made many concessions based on … dynamic games in incomplete information. Main result shows that countries behavior depends especially on war costs and on … country military power. There are many applications of these types of models, like in Israel - Palestinian war, recent Russian …
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activities increased in 0.98% the homicide rate and in 1.24% the displacement rate and the war among drug dealers increased in 4 …
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The aim of this short article is to provide elements for a general discussion on peace economics and its potential contribution to economics and economic policy. I first present a discussion on deterrence equilibria and consequent allocation of resources. Eventually I expound five economic...
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