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A Comparative Study on Landownership between China and England

Deng, Feng - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996

By comparing the development of landownership in China and England, this paper explores what were behind their different trajectories. In particular, I examined the delineation of property rights, alienation of land, rent and tax, inheritance and accumulation of land. Feudal England was a...

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NEA presidential address: identity, markets, and persistent racial inequality

Mason, Patrick L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

This paper contrasts competing theories and evidence on the nature and significance of African American racial identity. In particular, we seek to examine whether race is best understood as a set of values and behaviors or whether race is best understood as a social norm.

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TOURISM AND THE CITY: OPPORTUNITY FOR REGENERATION

Galdini, Rossana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

places of cultural significance are transformed into places of consumption by investigating the relationship between culture … as a resource for identity and culture as an economic resource. …

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Old-Age Pension Reform and Modernization Pathways: Lessons for China from Latin America

Calvo, Esteban; Williamson, John B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

While numerous Western countries first experienced cultural rationalization, next economic modernization, and then faced the challenges of population aging and pension policy reform, both Latin America and China, in contrast, are dealing with these challenges in the context of much less...

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ORIGINES et consolidation du changement institutionnel : le cas chinois

EL KAROUNI, Ilyess - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Without necessarily reduce it to a single cause, this article lays stress on the cultural foundations of the Chinese postsocialist transformation. The process began with what we call a «cultural shock» brought about the opening of the country and took the form of an ideological aggiornamento....

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Rethinking the Culture - Economy Dialectic

Brons, Lajos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The culture - economy dialectic (CED), the opposition of the concepts and phenomena of culture and economy, is one of … just that. The concepts of "culture" and "economy" (and related concepts) and the (assumed) relationships therebetween are … are partly based on a measurement of Dutch regional culture. However, it appeared that most theories of the CED are …

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Premarital Sex – Lessons from American Experience

Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

All over the world and in most of the current society and culture, most people consider premarital sex acceptable and …

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A cultural model of performance at the central government level

Talpos, Ioan; Dima, Bogdan; Mutascu, Mihai; Enache, Cosmin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The paper intends to draw a possible framework for evaluating the performance of the administration at the central government level. We propose a simple pool-data model in which we tried to make a connection between main macroeconomic variables that are in part the result of government actions...

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International Human Resource Management: A Review from Pakistani Perspective

Shah, Syed Tanveer Hussain; Jamil, Raja Ahmed; Shah, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This article provides information about the International Human Resource Management and discusses HRM according to the international prospective in Pakistan. In this article it is discussed that how environmental and cultural factors affect the recruitment, selection and industry/employee...

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Taxes, National Identity, and Nation Building: Evidence from France

Johnson, Noel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

What is the relationship between state capacity, national identity, and economic development? This paper argues that increases in state capacity can lower the collective action costs associated with political and economic exchange by encouraging the formation of a common identity. This...

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