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Lost Decades : Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa
Bates, Robert - 2007
Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities. In each case independence was followed by political...
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Rugged Individualism and Collective (In)Action During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Bazzi, Samuel - 2020
Rugged individualism—the combination of individualism and anti-statism—is a prominent feature of American culture with deep roots in the country's history of frontier settlement. Today, rugged individualism is more prevalent in counties with greater total frontier experience (TFE) during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823758
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Voluntary Associations, Corporate Rights, and the State : Legal Constraints on the Development of American Civil Society, 1750-1900
Bloch, Ruth H. - 2015
The freedom of citizens to form voluntary associations has long been viewed as an essential ingredient of modern civil … society. Our chapter revises the standard Tocquevillian account of associational freedom in the early United States by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022925
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The Guarantees of Freedom
La Porta, Rafael; Lopez de Silanes, Florencio; … - 2021
Hayek (1960) distinguishes the institutions of English freedom, which guarantee the independence of judges from … political interference in the administration of justice, from those of American freedom, which allow judges to restrain law … reflect these institutions of English and American freedom, and ask whether these rules predict economic and political freedom …
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Manumission in Nineteenth Century Virginia
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2010
A long-standing debate concerns the rationality of slave owners and this paper addresses that debate within the context of manumission. Using a new sample of 19th-century Virginia manumissions, I show that manumission was associated with the productive characteristics of slaves. More productive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148375
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Poverty, Political Freedom, and the Roots of Terrorism
Abadie, Alberto - 2021
-specific characteristics such as the level of political freedom are taken into account. Political freedom is shown to explain terrorism, but it … does so in a non-monotonic way: countries in some intermediate range of political freedom are shown to be more prone to … terrorism than countries with high levels of political freedom or countries with highly authoritarian regimes. This result …
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A Sparsity-Based Model of Bounded Rationality
Gabaix, Xavier - 2011
This paper defines and analyzes a "sparse max" operator, which is a less than fully attentive and rational version of the traditional max operator. The agent builds (as economists do) a simplified model of the world which is sparse, considering only the variables of first-order importance. His...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127754
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Identification Problems in Personality Psychology
Borghans, Lex - 2011
This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by psychologists to infer traits are based on behaviors, broadly defined. These behaviors are produced from multiple traits interacting with incentives in situations. In general, measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127766
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Rules Versus Discretion in Trade Policy : an Empirical Analysis
Staiger, Robert W. - 2011
We test empirically for evidence that government tariff-setting behavior depends on the degree of discretion with which policy-makers are endowed. We do this by studying government tariff choices under two distinct environments. One environment is that of tariffs set under the Escape Clause...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127832
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Empirical Patterns of Firm Growth and R&D Investment : a Quuality Laddermodel Interpretation
Klette, Tor Jakob - 2011
We present a model of endogenous firm growth with R&D investment and stochastic innovation as the engines of growth. The model for firm growth is a partial equilibrium model drawing on the quality ladder models in the macro growth literature, but also on the literature on patent races and the...
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