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costs must be strong. In essence, this is the case for capitalism over socialism, explaining the dynamic vitality' of free … the role of prices under socialism and capitalism and ignored the enormous importance of ownership as the source of … enterprise. The great economists of the 1930s and 1940s failed to see the dangers of socialism in part because they focused on …
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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 …
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may weaken capitalism itself. In the US a decade of slow growth has increased protectionist tendencies in international … private capitalism to government-dominated economy more likely …
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This paper contains the chapters on welfare economics, morality, and the law from a general, forthcoming book … foundations of economic analysis, namely, the subject of welfare economics. I also describe notions of morality and fairness … welfare economics and morality. A theme of this discussion is that notions of morality have functional aspects, and that, for …
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A long-standing challenge for welfare economics is to develop welfare criteria that can be applied to allocations with …
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We present a new theory of pervasive shortages under socialism, based on the assumption that the planners are self … suggests that market socialism is bound to fail even without computational complexities facing the planners …
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The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. This paper generalizes the forward-looking voter model to a broad range of dynamic, non-concave income...
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The recent ascent of right-wing populist movements in many countries has rekindled interest in understanding the causes of the rise of Fascism in inter-war years. In this paper, we argue that there was a strong link between the surge of support for the Socialist Party after World War I (WWI) and...
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This paper shows that, except in certain limiting cases, competitive equilibrium with moral hazard is constrained inefficient. The first section compares the competitive equilibrium and the constrained social optimum in a fairly general model, and identifies types of market failure. Each of the...
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In this paper, I show that, under relatively weak conditions, dynastic equilibria are never welfare optima. If a social planner sets policy to maximize a social welfare function, then, except in extreme cases where the planner cares only about a single generation, successive generations will...
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