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Cold War and Institutional Quality: Some Empirical Evidence

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Tcheta-Bampa, Albert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The configuration of the cold war determines institutional quality. Countries pertaining to the block of the West display a negative link with bureaucratic development, lack of corruption, credibility of governments and others. Results are maintained even after controlling for regional and...

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Fostering Human Capital Accumulation during Communism: the Case of Bulgaria

Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The question raised in the present paper is: What is the human capital during the communism and which are the key …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259167

Влияние на човешкия капитал върху икономическия растеж (България, 1949-2005 г.)

Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

In Bulgaria, during the transition to market-oriented economy, many analyzes are based on the widely held view that one of the positive legacies of the economies in transition (particularly that of Bulgaria) is the high level of human capital. The high degree of development of education and...

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Human Capital Formation during Communism and Transition: Evidence from Bulgaria

Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

coped with labour market problems in a small closed economy. Unfortunately, during communism, there had been quite … be classified during communism, and at present are available at the Central State Archives. Next, we construct human … both communism and transition. Finally, we identify key policy and political measures which have affected human capital …

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A Comparative Study of the Major Economic Systems in the aftermath of the Great Recession

Shaikh, Salman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper compares the fundamental postulates of major economic systems i.e. Capitalism, Socialism, Mixed economy (a hybrid of Capitalism and Socialism) and the Islamic economic system. It identifies through a review of theoretical economics the structural problems that lie in the current...

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Review of: János Kornai, By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey. Cambridge (Mass.): The MIT Press, 2007

Chilosi, Alberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Kornai's autobiography presents an interesting perspective of the intellectual environment of a Central European country of real socialism such as Hungary, from the Stalinist after-war years to the progressively more relaxed, but still constraining, atmosphere of the sixties and later. Of...

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La Direction centrale de la statistique et la Balance de l’économie nationale de l’URSS en 1923—24

Akhabbar, Amanar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In 1918 the Central Statistical Administration (TsSU) was founded with the support of Lenin. Pavel Illich Popov was its first director (1918-1926). TsSU proceeded to the merging and centralization of the former decentralized statistical system of the zemstva (local governments) inherited from...

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L'utopia della ragione in Claudio Napoleoni (1924-1988)

Cavalieri, Duccio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1988

This article is an obituary, in memoriam of professor Claudio Napoleoni, an economist and politician.

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Comparative Economic Systems: A Brief Review

Shaikh, Salman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

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 an ethical base, unbridled pursuit of self interest in...

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Culture and the Gender Gap in Competitive Inclination: Evidence from the Communist Experiment in China

Zhang, Y. Jane - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Radical communist reforms propelled traditionally secluded Han Chinese women into the labor force but exempted ethnic minorities. Using an economic experiment, this study compares the gender gap in competitive inclination across three ethnic groups in one county. The Han Chinese have no...

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