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consequences of increased life expectancy for democracy and capitalism - including the concepts of society for all ages, silver …
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There is no doubt; consumer credits are more and more present in the economic life of the Chileans. It is enough to go to any shopping mall, supermarket or even medical centre to realize that today it is possible to buy almost everything with some kind of loan. The expansion of consumer credit...
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Abstract: This paper deals with similarities and differences between new economic sociology (NES) and new institu-tional economics (NIE). We start with brief reports on the basic ideas of NES and NIE. Regarding the latter, we concentrate on NIE in the sense of Oliver Williamson who introduced...
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The culture - economy dialectic (CED), the opposition of the concepts and phenomena of culture and economy, is one of the most important notions in the modern history of ideas. Both the disciplinary boundaries and much theoretical thought in social science are strongly influenced or even...
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. Finally capitalism no longer works if it cannot solve the excesses of unemployment as are happening in some Eurozone countries. …
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Large parts of the Netherlands saw an early rise in market traffic during the late Middle Ages already. Exchange via the market became the dominant form not only for goods, but also for land, labour and capital, and this during the course of the sixteenth century already. This contribution...
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Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the 21st century" has been the most important book economy in recent times. Its aim integrates the debate theories of growth, income distribution, inequality and differences between the extremes income and income of the majority. The work predicts a slow increase in...
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This is an article on the economic policy in Italy today, written in a left-wing liberal perspective. It deals with the present logic of reproduction of capital, aimed at maximizing the extraction and private appropriation of surplus-value.
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This paper analytically compares the theoretical foundations of major economic systems i.e. Capitalism, Socialism …, Mixed economy (a hybrid of Capitalism and Socialism) and the Islamic economic system. The research identifies that lack of … features present in Capitalism i.e. right to private property, private pursuit of economic interest and use of market forces …
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From a broad philosophical framework, this paper addresses the relation between freedom and economic performance. It argues for the thesis that, although a liberal system does not guarantee absolute harmony, is the only "convenient" and morally valid for a modern society. The core of this...
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