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A behavioral approach to the political and economic inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
Boettke, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Deirdre McCloskey’s Bourgeois Dignity (2010) represents another breakthrough work in her career, and the second volume in a multi-volume work on the economic and intellectual history of western civilization. In a sense, the subtitle of the book explains well what this volume is all about--why...
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Education Performance: Was It All Determined 100 Years Ago? Evidence From São Paulo, Brazil
de Carvalho Filho, Irineu; Colistete, Renato P. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper deals with institutional persistence in long-term economic development. We investigate the historical record of education in one of the fastest growing and most unequal societies in the twentieth century – the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Based on historical data from an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490496
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Economic Development in Pre-Independence Botswana, 1820-1966: Historical Trends, Contributing and Countervailing Factors
Hlavac, Marek - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper examines the trajectory of economic development in Botswana between the years 1820 and 1966, when it achieved independence. First, I review the historical trends in the country’s economic and social development indicators. I then proceed to analyze what factors have encouraged or...
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Unternehmer und Grundherren Nord-Nigerias im Kampf um die politische Macht: Zum sozialen Aufstieg der einheimischen Wirtschaftselite in den nigerianischen Emiraten
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1978
The traditional relationship of patronage and clientship between the landlord- and the growing commercial class in Bida and other Nigerian Emirates - firmly established during the 19th century - left indelible marks which influence the pattern of social communication between these two classes...
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How rich nations got rich. Essays in the history of economic policy.
Reinert, Erik S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
The debate around the effects of globalization is both widening and deepening. While some nations, like India and China – countries that have consciously built a manufacturing sector for five decades – come across as winners, a large number of smaller Third World nations seem to lose out...
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La lectura de "Operación Masacre" como herramienta fundamental para la comprensión de la historia argentina de la segunda mitad del siglo XX
Marongiu, Federico - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Rodolfo Walsh´s book "Operación Masacre" is an essential reading for understanding Argentina´s history in the years ranging from 1940 to 1980. This work analyses Walsh´s book as well as different prologues from different editions and Walsh´s 1977 letter to the military government that...
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Is “economic freedom” strictly free market capitalism? A decompositional analysis of the Economic Freedom of the World index
Cohen, Joseph N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The Frasier Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World is often taken as a metric of market capitalism. This paper argues that the index is an amalgam of measures capturing free markets and good governance, and analysts should remain cognizant of this conceptual conflation when using the index...
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Industrial energy from water-mills in the European economy, 5th to 18th Centuries: the limitations of power,
Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
areas not well treated by Reynolds and other historians: in the fields of mining, metallurgy, and textiles – including the … costly, overshot wheels. The study thus begins with the late-medieval technological revolutions in both mining and metallurgy …
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Copper and Foreign Investment: The development of the mining industry in Cyprus during the great depression
Apostolides, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper evaluates the impact of the rapid growth of mining on the Cypriot economy during the period 1921-1938, with … special focus on the expansion of copper sulphate mining. During this period the industry was transformed by companies such as … the Cyprus Mining Corporation (CMC) and this affected the whole economy and society. The island was for the first time …
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Naxal problem in India an economic analysis
Pradhan, Raj Kishor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
India, having one of the fastest growing economies in the world, and being the most populous democratic country, has great potential to become a future superpower. However, in this increasingly globalised environment, India faces several threats to its security. The Naxalites has been identified...
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