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Religion, Economy, and State : Economic Thought of Al-Mawardi in Adab Al-Dunya Wa-Al-Din
Jaelani, Aan - 2016
The relation between religion, economy and the country became a major topic in the development of public welfare systems. Humans are political creatures that have the potential to realise the level of moral conscience to meet the needs of a better life, but humans as spiritual beings must have a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987223
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The City of Bandung: Unfolding the process of a Creative City
Aritenang, Adiwan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Decentralisation in Indonesia has brought different impacts to regions following its development path dependence and institutional arrangements. This study aims to understand the role of both path dependence and institutional arrangements in the process of developing a creative city. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260362
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Institutional Trap
Polterovich, Victor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
One of the main obstacles for successful economic development is the formation of institutional traps, inefficient yet stable norms of behaviour. Domination of barter exchange, arrears, corruption and black market activities are examples of institutional traps that have hampered reforms in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596422
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Stories of Error and Vice Matter: Path Dependence, Paul David, and Efficiency and Optimality in Economics
Yalcintas, Altug - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
world, unlike the portrayals of neo-classical economics in general and Paul Samuelson in particular, is a world of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837162
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Институциональные ловушки: есть ли выход?
Polterovich, Victor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Any legislative framework is likely to generate different institutions or norms of behavior which the legislator occasionally could have never foreseen. I suggested a general pattern, on which inefficient, if stable, norms or institutions called institutional traps would form.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552800
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The dynamics of Agglomeration: Evidence from Ireland and Portugal
Barrios, Salvador; Bertinelli, Luisito; Strobl, Eric; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This paper analyses and compares the dynamics of agglomeration in Portuguese and Irish manufacturing industries between 1985 and 1998 implementing Dumais, Ellison and Glaeser (2002)'s methodology. Using comparable and exhaustive micro-level data sets, we find that industries tend to be subject...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616640
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The Economics of Rhetoric: On Metaphors as Institutions
Lanteri, Alessandro; Yalcintas, Altug - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The professional life of economists takes place within the boundaries of the institution of academic economics … we focus on the enabling and disabling roles of metaphors as institutions in the rhetoric of economics. We argue, from … the perspective of economics of rhetoric, that some of the metaphors can lead us to path dependent circumstances where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616800
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Challenging path dependence? Ideational mapping of nationalism and the EU’s transformative power: The case of infrastructural politics in SEE
Klimov, Blagoy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The research employs historical institutionalism, amplified by ideas to explain path dependent political behaviour. The theoretical framework is applied to explain political behaviour in the Balkans, where Greece and Bulgaria, despite many similarities have developed highly antagonistic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149407
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Институциональные ловушки и экономические реформы
Polterovich, Victor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
The theory of institutional traps, i.e. ineffective but stable institutions or behavior norms, is develope din connection with economic reforms. Mechanisms are described that cause a system to get into a trap and ways of going out of it are analyzed. Concepts of transformation costs and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008753049
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Metaphors and Analogies in Institutional Economic Theory
Frolov, Daniil; Lavrentyeva, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The article presents the critical review of physical and biological metaphors in the institutional economic theory. It is proved that physical (including mechanistic) analogies are most adequate for the associative characteristic of a statics and kinetics of institutional systems, and biological...
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