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On measuring uncertainty : snakes and ladders

Junankar, Pramod N. - 2016

The Global Crisis demonstrated to the world that Ratings Agencies had misled the public about the stability of financial institutions. The Finance literature had decided that it was impossible to have bubbles in financial markets and any surge in the stock market would be self-correcting. Recent...

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Theory

Damm, Anna Piil (contributor); Rosholm, Michael (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Jacob Mincer, experience and the distribution of earnings

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Economic science and political influence

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2012

When policymakers and private agents use models, the economists who design the model have an incentive to alter it in order to influence outcomes in a fashion consistent with their own preferences. I discuss some consequences of the existence of such ideological bias. In particular, I analyze...

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Economic pluralism in the study of wage discrimination : a note

Drydakis, Nick - 2018

Economic pluralism proposes that economists and social planners should consider alternative theories to establish a range of policy actions. Neoclassical, Feminist and Marxian theories evaluate well-grounded causes of wage discrimination. Racist attitudes, uncertainties regarding minority...

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Publishing economics: how slow? why slow? is slow productive? fixing slow?

Hadavand, Aboozar; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Wilson, Wesley W. - 2021

Publishing in economics proceeds much more slowly on average than in the natural sciences, and more slowly than in other social sciences and finance. It is even relatively slower at the extremes. We demonstrate that much of the lag, especially at the extremes, arises from authors' dilatory...

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The monetary roots of exploitation

Andini, Corrado - 2025

This paper proposes a theory of the mark-up that is embedded in a circuit model of the capitalist mode of production …. The model and the theory are built on Keynes's principle of effective demand, Graziani's monetary theory of production and … Pivetti's monetary theory of distribution. The price-setting mechanism is conceived as driven by a Kaleckian rule. The rate of …

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Lessons from the laureates

Breit, William; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2009

This paper uses as source material twenty-three autobiographical essays by Nobel economists presented since 1984 at Trinity University (San Antonio, Texas) and published in Lives of the Laureates (MIT Press). A goal of the lecture series is to enhance understanding of the link between biography...

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The academic origins of economics faculty

Jones, Todd R.; Sloan, Arielle A. - 2021

We use roster data of 96 top U.S. economics departments to document the academic origins of their tenure-track faculty. Academic origins may have implications for how undergraduate (B.A.) and doctoral (Ph.D.) students are trained and placed, as well as the type of research produced. We find that...

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Enlightenment ideals and belief in progress in the run-up to the Industrial Revolution : a textual analysis

Almelhem, Ali; Iyigun, Murat; Kennedy, Austin; Rubin, Jared - 2023

Using textual analysis of 173,031 works printed in England between 1500 and 1900, we test whether British culture evolved to manifest a heightened belief in progress associated with science and industry. Our analysis yields three main findings. First, there was a separation in the language of...

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