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Emotions were central to the development of economics, especially in utility theory in classical economics. While neoclassical utility theory basically abolished emotions, behavioural economics more recently reintroduced emotions in utility theory. Beyond utility theory, economic theorists use...
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This paper is based on the ideas of political philosopher John Rawls who suggested that a just society is one which would be created behind a “veil of ignorance”, that is to say, without knowing where one would end up in the society's distribution of talent and other attributes valued in the...
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Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom is an influential book more than seventy years after its publication. This paper examines his arguments and finds that they come up short in many ways and suggests that we have taken “another road to serfdom”. Hayek’s mind was completely closed to...
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Richard Musgrave was one of the around 200 academic economists who emigrated from Germany when Fascism came to dominate the country. This memorial lecture traces the German and European roots of Richard Musgrave’s oeuvre, trying to shed light on his family background as well as on the...
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A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … job loss and those who do not reveals generally increasing entry rates through the wealth distribution for both groups … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth – net housing equity – for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity …
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relevant waves of the Health and Retirement Study (1996-2010), we exploit the exogenous variation in the form of wealth shocks … resulting from the value of housing assets, to examine the effect of wealth on use of home health, unpaid help and nursing home … not affected by the housing wealth changes. The findings suggest that a wealth shock exerts a positive and significant …
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This paper identifies globalization as a factor behind the rapid increase in executive compensation and inequality over the last few decades. Employing comprehensive data on top executives at major U.S. companies, we show that compensation is higher at more global firms. We find that pay...
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This paper studies the heterogeneity of the marginal propensity to consume out of wealth based on French household … surveys. This heterogeneity is driven by differences in both wealth composition and wealth levels. We find a decreasing … marginal propensity to consume out of wealth across the wealth distribution for all net wealth components. The marginal …
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, 19th century weight was higher in states with greater average wealth and population density and lower in states with … greater wealth inequality …
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The Carnegie effect (Holtz-Eakin, Joualfaian and Rosen, 1993) refers to the idea that inherited wealth harms recipients …
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