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Capitalism and Democracy in 2040 : Forecasts and Speculations

Fogel, Robert W. - 2010

While the economies of the fifteen countries that were in the European Union (EU15) in 2000 will continue to grow from now until 2040, they will not be able to match the surges in growth that will occur in South and East Asia. In 2040, the Chinese economy will reach $123 trillion, or nearly...

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The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

, like Marx and Ricardo, in formulating general laws of capitalism to diagnose and predict the dynamics of inequality. We …

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The Cambridge History of "Capitalism"

Temin, Peter - 2014

This review essay of the two-volume Cambridge History of Capitalism (2014), edited by Larry Neal and Jeffrey G … economists to add depth to their understanding of the world economy today. Robert C. Allen analyzes the world distribution of … criticize the definition of capitalism used in these volumes as too expansive to be useful. I argue that this definition mars …

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Capital and Wealth in the 21st Century

Weil, David N. - 2015

In Capital in the 21st Century, Thomas Piketty uses the market value of tradeable assets to measure both productive capital and wealth. As a measure of wealth this is problematic because it ignores the value of human capital and transfer wealth, which have grown enormously over the last 300...

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Searching for the EU Social Dialogue Model

Freeman, Richard B. - 2010

The European Union and the United States operate different variants of market capitalism. The EU model uses social …

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Foreign Firms and Local Communities

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2012

The literature on the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) and activities of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on host-countries has been almost exclusively focused on issues of productivity, growth and wages. We argue that this leaves quite a bit of important unexplored areas of inquiry,...

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Corporate Social Responsibility for Irresponsibility

Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2011

This paper provides an empirical investigation of the hypothesis that companies engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR) in order to offset corporate social irresponsibility (CSI). We find general support for the causal relationship: when companies do more "harm," they also do more...

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The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance

Eccles, Robert G. - 2012

We investigate the effect of corporate sustainability on organizational processes and performance. Using a matched sample of 180 US companies, we find that corporations that voluntarily adopted sustainability policies by 1993 - termed as High Sustainability companies - exhibit by 2009 distinct...

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What is the Business of Business?

Nilsson, Andreas - 2017

This paper develops a simple framework for understanding the emergence of new organizational forms, such as socially responsible firms and social entrepreneurs, that embody the private sector's efforts to resolve problems that typically have been within the purview of government and traditional...

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Corporate Social Responsibility Through an Economic Lens

Reinhardt, Forest L. - 2010

Business leaders, government officials, and academics are focusing considerable attention on the concept of quot;corporate social responsibilityquot; (CSR), particularly in the realm of environmental protection. Beyond complete compliance with environmental regulations, do firms have additional...

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