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Australia’s underground economy – redux?
Breusch, Trevor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Bajada (2006) recognises that his earlier books and papers used a faulty method for measuring the underground economy in Australia. He also reports finding a new “more serious problem” in the method. All of these failures can be avoided, it is claimed, by reduced use of currency modelling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011267866
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Mentalism versus behaviourism in economics: a philosophy-of-science perspective
Dietrich, Franz; List, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Behaviourism is the view that preferences, beliefs, and other mental states in social-scienti�c theories are auxiliary constructs re-describing people's behav- ioural dispositions. Mentalism is the view that they capture real phenomena, no less existent than the unobservable entities and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258839
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Australia’s underground economy – redux?
Breusch, Trevor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Bajada (2006) recognises that his earlier books and papers used a faulty method for measuring the underground economy in Australia. He also reports finding a new “more serious problem” in the method. All of these failures can be avoided, it is claimed, by reduced use of currency modelling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621306
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Convergence and Divergence in Europe: Polish and Ukrainian Cases
Lukianenko, Dmytro; Chuzhykov, Viktor; Woźniak, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The all-round aspects of bilateral relations are considered in the common Ukrainian-Polish monograph. Authors uncover important features of social-andeconomic systems convergence under conditions of globalization and European integration, as well as the further transformation of Central- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111791
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Causal Depth: Aspects of a Scientific Realist Approach to Causal Explanation contra Humean Empiricism
Khan, Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The purpose of this note is to clarify how the idea of "causal depth" can play a role in finding the more "approximately true" explanation through causal comparisons. It is not an exhaustive treatment but rather focuses on a few aspects that may be the most critical in evaluating the explanatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623475
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Causal Depth contra Humean Empiricism: Aspects of a Scientific Realist Approach to Explanation
Khan, Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The purpose of this note is to clarify how the idea of "causal depth" can play a role in finding the more "approximately true" explanation through causal comparisons. It is not an exhaustive treatment but rather focuses on a few aspects that may be the most critical in evaluating the explanatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787185
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The common error of common sense: an essential rectification of the accounting approach
Kakarot-Handtke, Egmont - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
replaced in the following. The formal point of reference is ‘the integrated approach to credit, money, income, production and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258616
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The psychological consequences of mere exposure to money and gift-giving
Gasiorowska, Agata - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The aim of this paper was to verify if reminders of money influence the tendency to spend one’s resources on kin and … friends. Previous research on the mere exposure to money concentrated only on behaviors directed at anonymous partners …, especially close friends and relatives. This paper presents three experiments showing that subtle reminders of money decrease the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258795
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Pre-1900 utopian visions of the ‘cashless society’
Hollow, Matthew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
add some historical and analytical perspectives to discussions about the future of money, banking and payments. For more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259028
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A Critical Marxist Approach to Capital Theory
Cavalieri, Duccio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
for converting quantities of labour-time in terms of money, which accounts for explicit and implicit costs, is proposed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259412