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For most Eastern European countries that experienced former communist regimes, the EU accession and the use of European symbols – such as the EURO currency – represents both the integration into a strong and efficient economic system, but also the guarantee of a system based on real...
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From a multidimensional analysis of poverty which enables us, through the use of technique of fuzzy sets, to construct a poverty indicator in this perspective in Cameroon, we analyse the poverty gaps in our country by making use of the Dagum sub-group decomposition (1997) which breaks down the...
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The present study uses the structural equation model (SEM) to analyze the correlations between various economic indices pertaining to latent variables, such as the New Taiwan Dollar (NTD) value, the United States Dollar (USD) value, and USD index. In addition, a risk factor of volatility of...
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In this study, we analyze the privations welfare in Cameroon considering poverty and social exclusion. The framework provided by the capability approach and construction of indicators of poverty and social exclusion by the fuzzy method from ECAM III survey data shows that the overall level of...
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capitalism far more than Anglo-American capitalism, and that it is likely to remain this way for the foreseeable future. …
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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 …
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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...
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Within the context of the New Economic Sociology, Karl Polanyi is almost universally considered the “father” of the concept of embeddedness. However, this concept has been subject to selective appropriation by this discipline and its relationship to the remaining theoretical edifice...
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A new theory of capitalism is suggested. Its key moments and general logic are presented. This theory is based on the … competition" are admitted to be a functional norm of capitalism. Respectively, an equilibrium and "perfect competition" are …
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A new theory of capitalism is suggested. Its key moments and general logic are presented. This theory is based on the … competition" are admitted to be a functional norm of capitalism. Respectively, an equilibrium and "perfect competition" are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259286