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Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism
Doepke, Matthias - 2007
The British Industrial Revolution triggered a reversal in the social order of society whereby the landed elite was replaced by industrial capitalists rising from the middle classes as the economically dominant group. Many observers have linked this transformation to the contrast in values...
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Democracy, Capitalism, and Equality : The Importance of Impersonal Rules
Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; Wallis, John Joseph - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
democracy and capitalism--is to move to a governance structure based on impersonal rules that apply in the same way to everyone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072872
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The Female Happiness Paradox
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using data across countries and over time we show that women are unhappier than men in unhappiness and negative affect equations, irrespective of the measure used - anxiety, depression, fearfulness, sadness, loneliness, anger - and they have more days with bad mental health and more restless...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172192
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The Scots may be Brave but They are Neither Healthy Nor Happy
Bell, David - 2006
worse than the rest of Europe. Deaths from chronic liver disease and lung cancer are particularly prevalent in Scotland. The … in Scotland are no worse than in England or Wales. Detailed analysis within Scotland, however, shows that social capital …
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The Rise of the Low Carbon Consumer City
Holian, Matthew J. - 2013
Urban density both facilitates consumption opportunities and encourages individuals to drive less and walk and use public transit more. Using several data sets, we document that high quality of life consumer center cities are low carbon cities. We discuss possible causal channels for this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459927
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Cross-Country Inequality Trends
Acemoglu, Daron - 2002
much less, in (continental) Europe over the same time period. I review the two most popular explanations for these … differential trends: that relative supply of skills increased faster in Europe, and that European labor market institutions … where labor market institutions creating wage compression in Europe also encourage more investment in technologies …
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The Profitabality of Colonialism
Grossman, Herschel I. - 1993
This paper develops an analytical framework for studying colonial investment from the perspective of neoclassical political economy. The distinguishing feature of colonial investment in this model is that the metropolitan government restricts the amount of investment in the colony in order to...
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Analyzing the Agenda of the U.K. Parliament Over the Long Run
Hanlon, W. Walker - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This article develops a method for quantitatively tracking the agenda of the British Parliament--by which I mean the substantive topics on which Parliamentary debate was focused--from 1810-2005 using descriptions of 1.7 million Parliamentary debates from the Parliamentary Hansard. This provides...
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Censorship, Family Planning, and the Historical Fertility Transition
Beach, Brian - 2019
famous Bradlaugh-Besant trial that took place in England in 1877, which revolved around the morality of family planning, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479703
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The Making of the Modern Metropolis : Evidence from London
Heblich, Stephan - 2018
Modern metropolitan areas involve large concentrations of economic activity and the transport of millions of people each day between their residence and workplace. We use the revolution in transport technology from the invention of steam railways, newly-constructed spatially-disaggregated data...
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