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Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...

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New imperialism or new capitalism?

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Over the past century, the institution of capital and the process of its accumulation have been fundamentally transformed. By contrast, the theories that explain this institution and process have remained largely unchanged. The purpose of this paper is to address this mismatch. Using a broad...

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Global communication as a result of globalization and informatization

Soproni, Luminita; Horga, Ioan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Many researchers consider that the forces of globalization and informatization have a great importance for communication; these forces have already caused changes in some industries, policies, cultures and societies. Societies and communities must take part in this new global communication as...

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Despre tensiunea local – global în economia mondială contemporană

Georgescu, Marius - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Under the circumstances of an accelerated world economy globalization during the last decades, the local-global tensions occur, with various intensity, in all significant aspects of human life: social, politic, economic, cultural, religious. The study tries, in a holistic approach, to identify...

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Regional food clusters and government support for clustering: Evidence for a ‘dynamic food innovation cluster’ in Alberta, Canada?

Steiner, Bodo; Ali, Jolene - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Location-based clusters and virtual cluster configurations have received significant attention from policymakers due to their potential implications on productivity, innovation and regional growth. This paper presents a short review of studies that have analyzed clustering activity in the food...

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Engineering Cluster in Moravia Silesia Region

Skokan, Karel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

Moravia Silesia region of the Czech Republic passes through deep restructuring of traditional industries accompanied by huge unemployment. Clustering seems to be one of the ways out of current transformation in the region´s development. After the introduction to the cluster theory a methodology...

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The Basel capital adequacy and regulatory framework: balancing risk sensitivity, simplicity and comparability

Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

are very difficult to predict – given the degree of prevailing and potential risks and uncertainties, as well as the … unquantifiable nature of such risks and uncertainties, this paper also illustrates the importance of complementary measures in the … generation of certain levels of risks – some of which were previously not in existence, it is increasingly becoming evident that …

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Risk management – a new priority system customs and its consequences

Iacob, Constanta; Zaharia, Stefan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The preoccupations concerning the analysis and the administration of the risks began in the year 1970 and lasted for 10 … negligence in analyzing the risks for more than 20 years marked the competitiveness of the enterprises. The risks are still the … it comes to managing emerging risks. Risk management in combination with other essential constituents customs, indicate …

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Education as a precautionary asset

Cipollone, Angela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

double selection model of school hours, by adding time preferences, risk attitudes and proxies of risks and shocks among the …

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Emigration of Skilled Labor under Risk Aversion: The Case of Medical Doctors from Middle Eastern and North African Economies

Driouchi, Ahmed; Kadiri, Molk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This is a contribution to the new economics of skilled labor emigration that focuses on the mobility of medical doctors from sending Middle East and North African countries. Economic models under risk neutrality and aversion are used. The findings show that the relative expected benefits and the...

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