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The "reversal of fortune" thesis and the compression of history : perspectives from African and comparative economic history

Austin, Gareth - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 20 (2008) 8, pp. 996-1027

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Economic development and fluctuations in earnings inequality in the very long run : the evidence from Latin America ; 1900 - 2000

Fitzgerald, Edmund V. K. - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 20 (2008) 8, pp. 1028-1048

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Confronting colonial legacies : lessons from human development in Ghana and Kenya, 1880 - 2000

Moradi, Alexander - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 20 (2008) 8, pp. 1107-1121

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From Galileo to Modern Economics : The Italian Origins of Econophysics

Tusset, Gianfranco - 2018

Empirical laws are rare in economics. This book describes efforts to anchor economic knowledge to invariant empirical laws. It links 17th and 18th century Galilean monetary economists to econophysics, a field that emerged in the mid-1990s. This virtual journey from past to present is charted by...

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Suspicions of Markets : Critical Attacks from Aristotle to the Twenty-First Century

Rutherford, Donald - 2016

In this work, Rutherford reviews why Adam Smith, Hayek, Mises and others praised economic markets, with a view to understanding, in contrast, historical attacks on markets dating as far back as Aristotle. The market has long been criticized as an inappropriate method of allocation, encouraging...

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Policy Signals and Market Responses : A 50-Year History of Zambia’s Relationship with Foreign Capital

Barton, Stuart John - 2016

The study presents archival evidence to show how President Kaunda raised political and economic exclusivity in Zambia in the early years of Zambia's independence, and how this retarded capital investment. Despite formal reforms and a new government, this institutional mechanism still dominates...

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The Econometricians : Gauss, Galton, Pearson, Fisher, Hotelling, Cowles, Frisch and Haavelmo

Read, Colin - 2016

This is the seventh book in a series of discussions about the great minds in the history and theory of finance. While the series addresses the contributions of scholars in our understanding of financial decisions and markets, this seventh book describes how econometrics developed and how its...

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Handbook of the History of Economic Thought : Insights on the Founders of Modern Economics

Backhaus, Jürgen G. - 2012

Introduction -- The Tradition of Economic Thought in the Mediterranean World from the Ancient Classical Times Through the Hellenistic Times until the Byzantine Times and Arab-Islamic World -- Mercantilism -- The Cameralists: Fertile Sources for a New Science of Public Finance -- The Physiocrats,...

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Der Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft : Geschichte des VHB und Geschichten zum VHB

Burr, Wolfgang (ed.); Wagenhofer, Alfred (ed.) - Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft - 2012

Die Geschichte des VHB. - Die Geschichte der deutschsprachigen Betriebswirtschaftslehre -- Wiederkehrende Themen … eine systematische Darstellung der Entwicklung des VHB und damit ebenso der Betriebswirtschaftslehre (BWL). Die Geschichte … (1948-1970) und die Zeit des Wachstums (1970-2000). Der zweite Teil gibt einen Überblick über die Geschichte der …

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