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An investigation of early modern Quakers’ business ethics
Sahle, Esther - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519832
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Corruption, Seigniorage and Growth : Theory and Evidence
Blackburn, Keith; Neanidis, Kyriakos C.; Haque, M. Emranul - 2021
This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance …. Corruption takes the form of the embezzlement of public funds, the effect of which is to increase the government's reliance on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316495
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Moral Judgments in Social Dilemmas : How Bad is Free Riding?
Cubitt, Robin P.; Drouvelis, Michalis; Gaechter, Simon; … - 2021
In the last thirty years, economists and other social scientists have investigated people’s normative views on distributive justice. Here we study people’s normative views in social dilemmas, which underlie many situations of economic and social significance. Using insights from moral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316140
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The dissolution of the English monasteries : a quantitative investigation
Peyton, Nick - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800545
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Happiness and Religion
Fidrmuc, Jan - 2015
We use four ways of the European Social Survey, covering 2000 to 2008, to analyze the effect of religion on happiness … the effects of belonging to an organized religion from the effect of holding religious beliefs, we find that the former … lowers happiness while the latter raises it. We interpret this as evidence that the tangible aspects of religion (such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018703
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Clarifying data for reciprocal comparisons of nutritional standards of living in England and the Yangtze Delta (Jiangnan), c.1644 - c.1840
Deng, Kent G.; O'Brien, Patrick Karl - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010401713
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The Great Divergence : A Network Approach
Lindner, Ines - 2016
knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001168
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Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective : Part 2
Ogilvie, Sheilagh - 2014
This is Part 2 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051272
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Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective : Part 1
Ogilvie, Sheilagh - 2014
This is Part 1 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051273