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Education, Rent Seeking and Growth
Berdugo, Binyamin; Meir, Uri - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper studies the role of education as a way of reducing private rent seeking activities and increasing output. In … many underdeveloped economies, for most individuals, there is no private return to education. Nonetheless, according to … this paper, governments are better off by investing in public education. We view education as a means to build personal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567980
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The Current Financial and Economic Crisis: Empirical and Methodological Issues
Strachman, Eduardo; Fucidji, José Ricardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this paper we describe the main causes of recent financial crisis as a result of many theoretical, methodological, and practical shortcomings mostly according to heterodox, but also including some important orthodox economists. At the theoretical level, there are problems concerning teaching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756292
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Development and social security system sustainability
Burz, Răzvan-Dorin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this paper we propose to investigate the link between economic development, social security system and the sustainability of the policies pursued by states. In doing so, we start from clarifying and summarizing the main ideas on the concepts of development and social security. Depending on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257786
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Economics and Hegemony; Globalization and International Trade Agreements
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper examines the concept of hegemony and its historical impacts on the Arabic and Islamic countries. It is foreseen that has long path applied by the Western countries as disclosed by trade applications and history of economic thought. Impacts on Arabic and Islamic countries were visible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147875
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The Glue of Democracy: Economics, Warfare and Values in Classical Greece
Kyriazis, Nicholas; Paparrigopoulos, Xenophon; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In the present essay we analyse the links between the emergence of new arms and forms of war-emergence, the phalanx and its hoplites, and the trieres at sea, its economic base, and the emergence of democracy in classical Greece. We propose that the unique till then in the world phalanx...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111263
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Morality, institutions and economic growth: Lessons from ancient Greece
Bitros, George; Karayiannis, Anastassios - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
We show that the character and the morality of citizens are important ingredients of economic growth because they go hand in hand with the great institutions of private property, democ-racy, and free markets. Our approach enables us to establish this result by reference to the structure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789812
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Character, knowledge and skills in ancient Greek education: Lessons for today’s policy makers
Bitros, George C.; Karayiannis, Anastasios D. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
approaches to education that Athens and Sparta adopted in the peak of their power. Our findings indicate that both city …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559294
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Friedrich List'in Bebek Endüstriler Tezi
Kibritçioğlu, Aykut - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996
After presenting a broad review of Friedrich List's infant industry argument (Erziehungszollargument) departing from collected works of List, this study aims to compare his ideas with that of Hamilton, Say, Mill, Bastable and Kemp. It underlines the restricted theoretical validity of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837400
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L'impresa mafiosa: i risultati economici della criminalità organizzata e il ruolo delle politiche pubbliche
Suppa, Alberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The Tenth Annual Report published by "Sos Impresa", an Antiracket Association, notices that the organized crime is ah heavy "ballast" in the Southern Italian Economy: "Mafia Business makes annual revenues for 90 mln €, about the 6% ofItalian GDP". This work presents a reading of the organized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619641
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Disciplinary Analysis of the Contribution of Academic Staff to PhD Completions in Australian Universities
Valadkhani, Abbas; Ville, Simon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
demonstrated by the number of PhDs and academic staff members (S) in ten broad fields of education using the average audited data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113994