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Education, social equality and economic growth : a view of the landscape

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Gylfi Zoega - 2003

Education has been one of the key determinants of economic growth around the world since 1965. In this paper, we discuss three different measures of education, and consider their relationship to the distribution of income as measured by the Gini coefficient as well as to economic growth across...

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European market integration for gas? : volume flexibility and political risk

Asche, Frank; Osmundsen, Petter; Tveterås, Ragnar - 2000

Gas exports to the Continent are regulated by long term take-or-pay contracts. The contracts are described and analyzed. We thereafter examine whether the most central European gas market, the German market, is integrated. Are there substantial price differences between gas from different export...

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Commanding nature by obeying her : a review essay on Joel Mokyr's A Culture of Growth

Spolaore, Enrico - 2019

Why is modern society capable of cumulative innovation? In A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy, Joel Mokyr persuasively argues that sustained technological progress stemmed from a change in cultural beliefs. The change occurred gradually during the seventeenth and eighteenth...

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European market integration for gas? : Volume flexibility and political risk

Asche, Frank; Osmundsen, Petter; Tveterås, Ragnar - In: Energy economics 24 (2002) 3, pp. 249-265

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Which conflicts can the European neighbourhood policy help resolve?

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Wijkman, Per Magnus - 2012

Under what conditions can the European Neighbourhood Policy achieve one of its main objectives: to resolve conflicts in the European Union's neighbourhood? In the spirit of Montesquieu and Monnet, the basic hypothesis of the EU is that closer economic integration encourages governments to take...

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A decade of editing the European Economic Review

Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Gal-Or, Esther; Thorvaldur Gylfason; … - 2011

This story describes the circumstances that led to all five of us starting as editors at the same time, the unexpected things we have found, the unanticipated reactions we have encountered, how we worked as an editorial team, the central role of the editorial office manager, how we managed to...

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Social organizations and political institutions : why China and Europe diverged

Mokyr, Joel; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2023

Western Europe. An important factor, recognized in the literature, is that China centralized state institutions very early on …, while Europe remained politically fragmented for much longer. These initial differences, however, were amplified by the … different social organizations (clans in China, corporate structures in Europe) that spread in these two societies at the turn …

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