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Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy by replacing socialism with populism. According to Samuelson, "populist democracy" had … attained its fullest development in the Southern Cone. He viewed Argentina as the paradigmatic case that proved his theo1y … growth. At the time, Samuelson also believed the advanced Western economies could follow the same path as Argentina. The …
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Although the application of the conceptual and analytical framework of economics to the study of populism is still in its infancy, great advances have been made in recent years. This paper reviews some key contributions behind this progress. When analyzing populism, economists face two...
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This paper presents evidence of electoraly-motivated changes in the budget balance, public expenditures, composition of public expenditures and provincial revenues in Argentine provinces. The empirical study is made using panel data analysis for 22 provinces during the period 1985-2001....
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The links between subnational political budget cycles (PBCs) and the national government in federal countries have seldom been studied. We study the behavior of the budget balance, public expenditures, and revenues in Argentine provinces during the 1985 - 2001 period. We find that in election...
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This paper attempts to understand the linkages between human capital and input choice in agricultural firms. The hypothesis to be tested is that better educated managers choose different input combinations than managers with a lower educational level. In particular, the hypothesis is that the...
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