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Voting power indicators in the European union

Loužek, Marek - In: Politická ekonomie 2004 (2004) 3, pp. 291-312

The article is concerned with voting indicators in the European Union. The first chapter constructs a model of voting power and defines four indicators: A. Simple relative power, B. Shapley-Shubik index, C. Banzhaf index, D. Coleman index. The second chapter defines data: the voting structure...

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The Proposal of Original Classification of Contemporary Social-Economic Approaches to the Growth Theory

Kouba, Luděk - In: Politická ekonomie 2009 (2009) 5, pp. 696-713

The paper works with assumptions, that the conclusions of mainstream approaches to the growth theory are problematical; there are alternative social-economic approaches to the theory of economic growth that offer more plausible explanations of the fundamental economic questions than the...

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The Least Developed Countries in The International Community and their Progress Towards Achieving Millennium Development Goals

Sýkora, Jiří - In: Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2008 (2008) 4, pp. 92-102

The aim of this paper is to describe the current situation of the least developed countries (LDCs). After briefly explaining their historical development, this paper presents the current definition criteria for LDCs as well as their up-to-date list. The position of the LDCs within the...

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Prices in trade of the Czech republic with member countries of the European union

Nešvera, Václav - In: Politická ekonomie 2006 (2006) 2, pp. 214-226

Empirical research on the differences between unit values in the EU's trade with the Czech Republic and the intra-EU average has shown a significant changes. The comparative level of manufacturing products imported from the Czech republic has increased, the comparative level of products exported...

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Evaluation of Public Projects from the Viewpoint of Social Rate of Discount

Kubíček, Jan; Vítek, Leoš - In: Politická ekonomie 2010 (2010) 3, pp. 291-304

A social rate of discount is an important variable for cost-benefit analysis. Its size can be crucial for an approval (or disapproval) of the project under evaluation, therefore it is important to have a theoretically founded estimate of the discount rate. There are two main approaches to...

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Towards a critique of the concepts of solidarity and discrimination as applied in inter-temporal analyses of the so-called global problems

Klaus, Václav; Tříska, Dušan - In: Politická ekonomie 2007 (2007) 6, pp. 723-750

of a welfare function - its intra and inter-temporal application. 2) A generalized concept of a distance (measured in … Ra and Râ - their interests and values. With respect to a given distance, a discount factor then represents the weight … new sample of a given man, household, firm, nation … or even mankind itself, (b) wealth is likely to grow with the time-distance …

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