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This study introduces a comprehensive model of institutional grafting by examining the formation of legal institutions as shaped by three forces: (1) cultural, (2) structural, and (3) political. The model is used to argue that a country's growth rates are a function of the distance that new...
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performances of private, public and mixed enterprises in Italy is compared through the use of factor analysis method. The extracted …
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Local Public Transportation (LPT) in Italy is usually managed through inhouse companies owned by local governments. In … potentially profitable part of the service. The paper examines the situation of the Liguria region in Italy, where the regional …
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compared with the public operator. The present work wants to analyse the highway privatization processes in Italy and Japan … consequences on the general economic well – being according to a public economics viewpoint. Italy implemented a real privatization … regulation, but privatization entails the transfer of a natural monopoly to another subject with completely different objectives …
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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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South Asian countryside is potentially an attractive space on the globe though in actuality it is as yet comparatively much less globalised an arena. It has not only a potential vast capacity to supply the valued platter of tropical foods to the world but also a rapidly increasing actual...
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long waves as developed by Ernest Mandel, with Kindleberger’s concept of hegemony. The article did not refer to the falling … the material basis of US hegemony, namely, its ability to use its surpluses to buttress its potential rivals’ combined …
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The question whether Islamic theology relevant in the modern world when faced with challenges of the various problems and/or modern crises, i.e. the ecological crisis, economy, progressivity of science, discourse of faith and reason, was forget one thing: the discourse naturalization. This paper...
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Since the beginning of the year 2011, the political crisis of Sudan expands everyday. The inevitable secession of Southern Sudan amplifies with the chronic crisis of Abyei pocket between the north and the south. However, most analysts vocalize their astonishment at irrational official behavior...
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This paper examines the concept of hegemony and its historical impacts on the Arabic and Islamic countries. It is …
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