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Since 1988, Professor Geoffrey Wood of the Sir John Cass Business School, has written a regular column in the IEA's journal, Economic Affairs, in which he exposes popular economic fallacies. Fifty Economic Fallacies Exposed collects fifty of these columns and exposes numerous common fallacies....
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At their arrival in North America, travelers from the Old Continent were exposed to a radically different civilization. Among the many practices that captured their imagination was scalp-taking. During battle, the Native American warrior would often stop after having killed or subdued the enemy...
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In this essay, we introduce the concept of Microjustice as an approach to tackle the problem of access to justice for those with limited resources. In addition to existing perspectives, we propose to analyze the justice sector as a 'market' with its corresponding chain of supply and a demand....
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Magna Carta, a pivotal moment in the emergence of constitutional government, institutionalised constraints on royal power. We depict it as an optimal agreement between two coalitions capable of violence: the king's loyal coalition of barons and the rebel barons. This type of agreement is more...
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The Handbook on the Economics of Conflict conveys how economics can contribute to the understanding of conflict in its … various dimensions embracing world wars, regional conflicts, terrorism and the role of peacekeeping in conflict prevention …. The economics of conflict is a relatively new branch of the discipline of economics. Conflict provides opportunities for …
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