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Religion was one of the factors that was frequently identified by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century economists as exerting an important influence on the pre-industrial European economies. These writers were especially interested in the economic effects of the Reformation on the economic...
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This paper develops a simple mercantilism model for a small open economy and examines the real effects of macroeconomic …
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Mercantilism was the dominant current of economic thinking and practice during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries till … the emergence of physiocracy. The scientific discoveries in Europe helped the development of mercantilism in many ways … development of mercantilism marked the shift of paradigm. It ignored ethical considerations and destroyed moral values that had …
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scholars and rulers and consequently emergence of 'mercantilism' was a turning point in the history of economic thought. The … paper documents evidences which prove that initially mercantilism was a reaction against Muslim powers. In the rise of … mercantilism, discovery of the New World is considered a significant factor. The main objective before explorers and pioneers of …
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Abstract This is the 2008 Edition of one of only two book in print in the world about the Single Global Currency, and is the only book in the world priced in 141 currencies (down from 147 in the 2006 edition.).This number is significant, as it's the number of currencies required among the 192...
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This paper confronts the traditional balance-of-payments (BoP) analytical framework (with its dominant focus on the size of a given country’s current account imbalance and its external liabilities) with the contemporary realities of highly integrated international capital markets and...
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Balance of Payments (BoP), being a record of the monetary transactions over a period with the rest of the world, reflects all payments and liabilities to foreigners and all payments and obligations received from foreigners. In this sense, the balance of payments is one of the major indicators of...
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The study aims to calculate Egypt’s real effective exchange rate at both the bilateral and multilateral levels, estimates the effect of real cross-rate movements on trade in goods and services and on foreign direct investment, and determines the fundamental equilibrium exchange rate for...
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Abstract Balance of Payments (BoP), being a record of the monetary transactions over a period with the rest of the world, reflects all payments and liabilities to foreigners and all payments and obligations received from foreigners. In this sense, the balance of payments is one of the major...
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An estimate of the contribution of the biosector to Ireland’s net foreign earnings in 2008 was recently published by The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2012). This paper examines these results and their derivation from a wide range of data provided by the Central Statistics...
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