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Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience find that fictional works exert strong influence on readers and shape their opinions and worldviews. We study the Potterian economy, which we compare to economic models, to assess how Harry Potter books affect economic literacy. We find that some...
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For many decades, Ingemar Ståhl was a well-known economist in Sweden. He introduced new perspectives into research, teaching and public debate. He made his presence felt in areas as diverse as housing policy, defense economics, energy policy, financial economics, industrial policy, higher...
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Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience offer systematic evidence that fictional works exert a surprisingly strong influence on readers and have the power to shape their opinions and worldviews. Building on these findings, we study 'Potterian economics', the economic ideas, insights, and...
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economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …
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This paper provides an overview of the modern perspective on the relationship between inequality and economic …
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This paper analyses the pre-tax inequality in the income that individuals actually receive in Brazil and the role of … inequality in Brazil but maintain the decreasing inequality trends, even though they are less pronounced than previously measured … cent to 34.4 per cent. Despite strong average income growth, the poorest 50 per cent only made moderate gains, which came …
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-homothetic preferences in a general-equilibrium model of endogenous growth and international trade between two countries, and argue that the … inequality across countries. We find that if inequality across countries is low, the extensive margin of trade between countries … is high whereas the world growth rate is low. The introduction of non-homothetic preferences rises a number of …
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Shakespeare, this paper examines the relations between poverty levels, economic growth and changes in inequality in Tanzania …Studying the relation between economic growth and income poverty reduction without taking changes in the distribution … during the 1990s. It offers four conclusions. First, the efficiency with which growth reduces poverty increases with a …
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growth. This mechanism generates a positive co-movement between inequality and growth. The pattern is weaker in countries …Governments perpetually align their policies to satisfy shifts in voters' relative demand for economic growth versus … social equality. Following such shifts, increases (decreases) in government interventions lower (raise) both inequality and …
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inequality. Estimations for India's economic revival are bleak and worsening with recent developments in the global economy. …
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