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In his early years, B S Minhas, who passed away recently, enriched economics with his valued theoretical contributions … economics at that time. On his return to India, realising that airy-fairy notions of economics pervading the academic and …
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Milton Friedman`s place in the world of economics is well assured not only because of his concepts and theorems but …
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Review of 'Inside the Economist’s Mind: Conversations with Eminent Economists' Edited by Paul Samuelson and William A …-luck repast to the enterprising reader, and one more reminder that economics will always remain a discipline of cognitive …
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A review of several decades of scholarship on civil war, focusing on the answers to key questions: Why do wars begin? Who fights? How are armed groups organized? How can we end and prevent internal war? A survey of the growing body of macroeconomic and microeconomic evidence to assess the...
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The key elements of effective central banking that account for much of the improvement in monetary policy around the world today are outlined and explained. The past quarter of the century has been a revolutionary period in which the world emerged from great inflation and output instability into...
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In this paper, how social preferences overcome the commitment problems implicit in vote-buying is examined. Data used for the study is a survey information on vote-buying experienced in a 2006 municipal election in Paraguay, with information on behavior in experiments carried out in 2002....
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The paper attempts to construct political influence variables and explain discrepancies in fund disbursement through proper econometric specification in the Indian context.
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The Hedonic property value method is used to estimate how a dismenity, bad odor from an open sewer system, affects housing prices in the city of Rawalpindi in Pakistan. An estimate of the benefits of converting the open system into a closed sewer system is done. [SANDEE Working Paper, No...
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economics perspective, examining in particular the dichotomy between economic and social theory in explaining the nexus between …
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A review and extended discussion is presented of The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice and Lives by Deirdre McCloskey and Stephen Ziliak, a work that raises important issues related to the practice of statistics and that has been widely commented...
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