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Rare books of political economy are eminently collectable. Using historical prices, I employ hedonic regressions to estimate financial returns to collecting the works of ten eminent political economists and develop a price index for this corpus of collectables. For the observation period...
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I estimate CES aggregate production functions for the US, the UK, Japan, Germany, and Spain using data from the EU KLEMS database. I distinguish between three types of capital: information and communication technologies (ICT), intellectual property (IP) capital, and traditional capital. I assume...
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Macroeconomic theory has developed into increasingly sophisticated mathematical models. In the words of Mankiw … the development of macroeconomic theory over the past 40 years. The focus is on the main lines of thinking and the story … changes in macroeconomic theory and that the current debates after the GFC will be the start of a more plural approach to …
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, consistent with economic norms theory, higher levels of market-capitalism are associated with less anti-American terrorism …This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. Using data for 149 countries between 1970 … and 2007, this contribution, contrary to expectations from capitalist peace theory, does not find that Anti …
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Maximizing output without taking into consideration the negative externalities generated, including the harm to the mental and physical health of the population creates psychological stress. Focusing on the bellwether indicators of economic performance including working more, generating income,...
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Most pre-crisis explanations of the various corporate governance systems have considered the separation between ownership and control to be an advantage of the Anglo-American economies. They have also attributed the failure of other countries to achieve these efficient arrangements to their...
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We examine the relationship between capitalism and income inequality for a large sample of countries using an adjusted … economic freedom index as proxy for capitalism and Gini coefficients based on gross-income as proxy for income inequality. Our …
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Denmark is one of the most developed welfare states, but also a rather capitalistic state with little public ownership outside the traditional fields of the public sector and the natural monopolies of the network industries. The low level of public ownership corresponds to peoples attitude in...
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distribution) when inequality is high. We argue that the latter finding corresponds to a system of political capitalism or captured …
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-tax, low-regulation capitalism will generate extreme capital accumulation, and that persistent wealth equalization requires …
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