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This paper explores the rise of money and class society in ancient Greece, drawing historical and theoretical parallels … and consolidation of class society and inequality. Money, class society, and inequality came into being simultaneously, so … transformation from egalitarian to class societies. In this context, money served to preserve the façade of social and economic …
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In the presence of (at least locally) increasing returns to scale tech- nologies, the paper asks the question: does there exist an economic system which implements Pareto efficient allocations and respects the voluntary participation principle? To answer this question, the paper formulates an...
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This paper analyses the equilibrium dynamics of exploitation and class in general accumulation economies with … emergence and persistence of exploitation and class are investigated, and the role of labour-saving technical change and, even … logically coherent and empirically relevant analysis of inequalities and class relations in advanced capitalist economies. An …
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Economic organization of the imaginary worlds depicted in popular literary works may be viewed as a mirror to public opinion on the economic organization of life. If a book becomes a best-seller, it is because the book conveys messages, feelings, and events the readers can relate to. In other...
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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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This paper explores the historical origins of the cultural norm regarding illegitimacy (formerly known as bastardy). We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural production structures influenced the historical illegitimacy ratio, and have had a lasting effect until today. Based on data...
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countries. We discuss many potential advantages of this class typology in measuring and analyzing wealth and wealth inequality …
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used by politicians as a political strategy to maintain power. In the process of using ethnicity, class solidarity is … in-group thus diminishing class solidarity that one may expect to occur between workmates. JEL Categories: Z13 N37, O15 …
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every agent's class and exploitation status emerges in the competitive equilibrium, that there is a correspondence between … an agent's class and exploitation status, and that the existence of exploitation is inherently linked to the existence of …
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economics. With increased computation power and advanced simulation techniques, random-coefficient models have gained an …
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