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Living in the garden of Eden: Mineral resources foster individualism
Couttenier, Mathieu; Sangnier, Marc - HAL - 2010
Using mineral resources discoveries in the United States since 1800, we argue that mineral mining fosters individualism …. Measuring individualism and the demand for redistribution by questions of the General Social Survey (GSS), we show that: (i … individualism ; (iii) individuals that experienced mineral discoveries during their early adulthood are more individualistic and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325722
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FISCAL PRESSURE AND PROPERTY SENSE EUROPEAN UNION INTEGRATION IN CONTEXT
Covaci, Cristina - In: Theoretical and Applied Economics 6(511)(supplement)(vol2) (2007) 6(511)(supplement)(vol2), pp. 99-106
connection with property and individualism, as main characteristics of actual market economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008751609
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Institutions, Culture, and Open Source
Freytag, Andreas; Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
institutional and cultural factors. Our findings are that a culture characterized by individualism/self-determination, abundance of …
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Group-Oriented Values, Rules and Cooperation
Chu, Ke-young - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2004
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A Model of a Rule of Law and a Rule of Man: Implications for the Design of Institutions
Chu, Ke-young - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005033097
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Altruism and Climate
Weibull, Jörgen; Alger, Ingela - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2006
Recognizing that individualism, or weak family ties, may be favorable to economic development, we ask how family ties …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005649421
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The General Impossibility of Neoclassical Economics
Fine, Ben - In: Ensayos Revista de Economia XXX (2011) 1, pp. 1-22
axiomatic deductivism and methodological individualism of a special type, as well as denying the image that the mainstream has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009001992
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CAPITALISM – CORRECTION OR CHANGE? COMPARISON OF SOME ECONOMIC SYSTEMS
Gabriela, Sterian - In: Romanian Economic Business Review 5 (2010) 4-1, pp. 73-83
In an increasingly globalized world, issues from a part of the system quickly reverberate elsewhere, and the way globalization has been managed raises high risks with little benefits. We need a coordinated global response, but each country thinks of its own good. The world has a major problem:...
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Corruption as a form of extreme individualism: An economic explanation based on geography and climate conditions
Arghyrou, Michael - Economics Section, Cardiff Business School - 2010
We present a simple model explaining corruption on geography and climate conditions. We test the model's validity in a cross-section of 115 countries. Controlling for all other corruption's determinants we find evidence supporting the model's predictions. Corruption increases with temperature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680818
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Cultural Diversity Determining the Memory of a Controversial Social Event
Paspalanova, Elena - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
A social event from the near past socio-political policy in Bulgaria – “State policy of changing the names of Turkish population living in Bulgaria” as a major element of the state revival process aiming at exterminating the ethnic differences in Bulgaria – was chosen to study the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005570344