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This study explores the effect of several personal religion-related variables on social behaviour, using three paradigmatic economic games: the dictator (DG), ultimatum (UG), and trust (TG) games. A large carefully designed sample of a Spanish urban adult population (N=766) is employed. From...
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Apart from measuring inequality and poverty at the provincial level in Spain between 1860 and 1930, this paper …
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This paper explores regional (NUTS3) income inequality in Spain, 1860-2010. Using a novel dataset spanning 150 years … was thus accompanied by a geographical concentration of the richest and poorest regions. While wealthy Spain was located … in the north-east, poor Spain was in the south, particularly the south-west. Mobility has also been virtually non …
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Gemessen an den jeweiligen Bedürfnissen der Bevölkerung, können Standards in Entwicklungsländern sowohl zu hoch als auch zu niedrig sein. Beides ist möglich. Zu niedrige Standards sind oft darauf zurückzuführen, dass es an Verfahren fehlt, die kollektives Handeln ermöglichen. Übernimmt...
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Im Jahr 1930 veröffentlichte Keynes einen Aufsatz über die Zukunft der Enkel, in dem er die Lösung des ökonomischen Problems und mithin das Ende der bisherigen Menschheitsgeschichte prognostizierte. Diese Prognose und die zahlreichen Implikationen, die Keynes aus ihr herleitete, werden hier...
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Eine in Deutschland prominent vertretene Position schlägt vor, die Tradition des „Ehrbaren Kaufmanns“ als zentrale historische Quelle heranzuziehen, um eine stärkere positive Fundierung von Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) zu ermöglichen. Vor diesem Hintergrund entwickelt dieser...
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Koautoren), die auf die Interpendenz von Wirtschaft und Politik in verschiedenen historischen Gesellschaftsformationen abzielt …
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Early states like China, India, Italy and Greece have been experiencing more rapid economic growth in recent decades than have later-comers to agriculture and statehood like New Guinea, the Congo, and Uruguay. We show that more rapid growth by early starters has been the norm in economic...
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The Spanish crisis is generally portrayed as resulting from excessive spending by households, associated with a housing bubble and/or excessive welfare spending beyond the economic possibilities of the country. We put forward a different hypothesis. We argue that the Spanish crisis resulted, in...
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On the one hand, every official document about fiscal policy in Spain, and most orthodox academic papers argue that … Spain has no "fiscal space" and that it should apply resolute actions to assure budget consolidation. On the other hand …, Spain also had the second highest unemployment rate in the Eurozone in 2015: 21% of the active population. A rapid decline …
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