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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...
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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 …
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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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Optimal Taxation with Rent-Seeking
Rothschild, Casey - 2011
Recent policy proposals have suggested taxing top incomes at very high rates on the grounds that some or all of the highest wage earners are engaged in socially unproductive or counterproductive activities, such as externality imposing speculation in the financial sector. To address this, we...
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The Choice of Discount Rate for Climate Change Policy Evaluation
Goulder, Lawrence H. - 2012
Nearly all discussions about the appropriate consumption discount rate for climate-change policy evaluation assume that a single discount rate concept applies. We argue that two distinct concepts and associated rates apply. We distinguish a social-welfare-equivalent discount rate appropriate for...
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Dynamic Incentive Contracts Under Parameter Uncertainty
Prat, Julien - 2014
We analyze a long-term contracting problem involving common uncertainty about a parameter capturing the productivity of the relationship, and featuring a hidden action for the agent. We develop an approach that works for any utility function when the parameter and noise are normally distributed...
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The Redistributive Effects of Financial Deregulation
Korinek, Anton - 2013
Financial regulation is often framed as a question of economic efficiency. This paper, by contrast, puts the distributive implications of financial regulation center stage. We develop a model in which the financial sector benefits from risk-taking by earning greater expected returns. However,...
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