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Capitalism and Democracy in 2040 : Forecasts and Speculations
Fogel, Robert W. - 2010
's global share of GDP means that liberal Asian nations will be poised to take up the role of promoting liberal democracy …
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Democratic Capital : The Nexus of Political and Economic Change
Persson, Torsten - 2010
years. Democratic capital -- measured by a nation's historical experience with democracy and by the incidence of democracy … in its neighborhood -- reduces the exit rate from democracy and raises the exit rate from autocracy. In democracies, a …, promoting economic development jointly with the consolidation of democracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012761656
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Government Distortion in Independently Owned Media : Evidence from U.S. Cold War News Coverage of Human Rights
Qian, Nancy - 2010
This paper investigates the extent to which strategic objectives of the U.S. government influenced news coverage during the Cold War. We establish two relationships: 1) strategic objectives of the U.S. government cause the State Department to under-report human rights violations of strategic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147999
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Policy Watch : Challenges for Terrorism Risk Insurance in the United States
Kunreuther, Howard - 2012
This paper examines the role that insurance has played in dealing with terrorism before and after September 11, 2001, by focusing on the distinctive challenges associated with terrorism as a catastrophic risk. The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (TRIA) was passed by the U.S. Congress in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755733
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Why Europe Should Love Tax Competition - and the U.S. Even More so
Janeba, Eckhard - 2010
parliamentary democracies (Europe) and presidential-congressional systems (USA) to show that increasing tax competition is likely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012762903
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Popular Attitudes Towards Markets and Democracy : Russia and United States Compared 25 Years Later
Boycko, Maxim - 2016
1992) are added to compare attitudes towards democracy. Two comparisons are made: between countries, and through time, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997900
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Trends in U.S. Spatial Inequality : Concentrating Affluence and a Democratization of Poverty
Gaubert, Cecile; Kline, Patrick; Vergara, Damian; … - 2022
We study trends in income inequality across U.S. states and counties 1960-2019 using a mix of administrative and survey data sources. Both states and counties have diverged in terms of per-capita pre-tax incomes since the late 1990s, with transfers serving to dampen this divergence. County...
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Democracy and Development : The Devil in the Details
Persson, Torsten; Tabellini, Guido - 2021
Does democracy promote economic development? We review recent attempts to address this question, which exploit the … within-country variation associated with historical transitions in and out of democracy. The answer is positive, but depends … growth effect of democracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234089
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The Rise of the Regulatory State
Glaeser, Edward L.; Shleifer, Andrei - 2021
During the Progressive Era at the beginning of the 20th century, the United States replaced litigation by regulation as the principal mechanism of social control of business. To explain why this happened, we present a model of choice of law enforcement strategy between litigation and regulation...
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Why Doesn't Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries?
Di Tella, Rafael - 2014
corruption, which is more widespread in poor countries, reduces more the electoral appeal of capitalism than that of socialism … externality since the existence of corrupt entrepreneurs hurts good entrepreneurs by reducing the electoral appeal of capitalism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751901