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Environmentally Unfriendly Consumption Behaviour: Theoretical and Empirical Evidence from Private Motorists in Mexico City
González, Alva; Ángel, Miguel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This dissertation treats the topic of environmentally unfriendly consumption behaviour in relation to air pollution and the use of automobiles in Mexico City by analyzing three related aspects: i) relevant factors of driving patterns, ii) differences in the extent of pollution arising from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578221
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Achieving sustainable development: the Integrative Improvement Institutes Project
Douglas, Graham - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The challenges we face in our economies and societies in our divided unsustainable world are perhaps greater than at any other time. These challenges have arisen because of how we have been trained to think, plan and act as individuals and how we have applied this training to the way we organise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622133
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Capitalism and Economic Growth: A Game-Theoretic Perspective
Leong, Chee Kian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Why has capitalism prevailed as an institution in promoting economic growth despite its apparent unfairness? In this … paper, we argue that within a neoclassical framework, capitalism is fairer compared to collectivism due to the absence of a … capitalism at the aggregate level. Developing countries operating below the steady state may be better off cooperating as they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836115
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Libertad y desempeño económico
Mejía Cubillos, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
From a broad philosophical framework, this paper addresses the relation between freedom and economic performance. It argues for the thesis that, although a liberal system does not guarantee absolute harmony, is the only "convenient" and morally valid for a modern society. The core of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109963
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Neoliberalism’s relationship with economic growth in the developing world: Was it the power of the market or the resolution of financial crisis?
Cohen, Joseph N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
inward investment that occurred after the Cold War. I argue that free market capitalism itself may not have promoted economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839480
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Neoliberalism’s relationship with economic growth in the developing world: Was it the power of the market or the resolution of financial crisis?
Cohen, Joseph N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
inward investment that occurred after the Cold War. I argue that free market capitalism itself may not have promoted economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008532159
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Variação de renda familiar, desigualdade e pobreza no Brasil no período 2001 a 2005
Guimarães, P. W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This article investigates the relationships among economic growth, income distribution and poverty in Brazil during the period from 2001 to 2005. Those relationships are analyzed starting from the selection of three models: one that relates the variations in the poverty indicators and the main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835994
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The return of “patrimonial capitalism”: review of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st century
Milanovic, Branko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
treats theory of growth, functional distribution of income, and interpersonal income inequality. It envisages a future of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257954
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La demanda agregada y la distribución del ingreso: Un estudio a partir de los modelos de crecimiento kaleckianos
Loaiza Quintero, O.L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
that are put aside by neoclassical theory, which focuses on supply side phenomena to explain growth. The Say’s law refusal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259165
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Redefining the Economical Power of Nations
Kiss, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper is (over the formulas) self explaining . The measurement of economies no longer by GDP alone, but by an Index that includes other important factors as well, a So-cial factors relativized GDP. This index cuts out the part of the GDP that is long term fro-zen up by social transfers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259539