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"I have spent my whole professional life as an international economist thinking and writing about economic geography, without being aware of it," begins Paul Krugman in the readable and anecdotal style that has become a hallmark of his writings. Krugman observes that his own shortcomings in...
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This paper explores the contingent valuation method for environmental valuation. Issues are raised over the validity of the approach as a method of assessing the underlying preferences of individuals. An alternative interpretation is given to the method as a means of exploring underlying...
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Floquet theory is an appropriate tool for studying ordinary linear recurrence and differential equations with periodic coefficients, and is a generalization of the theory for constant coefficients. Floquet theory has still not found its way into economics, although it seems to be relevant for...
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Macroeconometric models have during the last 40 years played an important role as a tool to guide decision making in public as well as private macroeconomic institutions. However, such models have not been much used in academic circles. We argue that macroeconometric models have problems both...
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Cet article presente les principaux resultats d'une mise en oeuvre critique de la methode d'evaluation contingente, realisee dans le cadre d'un programme de recherche engage par le GIP-hydrosystemes en 19995. Il s'appuie sur une enquete d'evaluation contingente menee aupres d'un certain type...
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This essay is a comment on“The Citation Impact of Feminist Economics”by Frances Woolley, which appeared in Feminist Economics, Vol. 11, No. 3, November 2005. This contribution comments on Frances Woolley's recent Feminist Economics article, “The Citation Impact of Feminist Economics.” It...
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This essay discusses the potential relevance of artificial life research for the study of economic processes.
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Giffen goods have long been a minor embarrassment to economics. While it is customary to dismiss them as empirically irrelevant, this essay argues that a more fundamental difficulty with Giffen goods has somehow been overlooked.
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This essay addresses issues related to the History of Economic Thought, Comparative Economic Analysis, and Institutional Economics alluded to in Mark Perlman's "The Character of Economic Thought, Economic Characters, and Economic Institutions". Specifically, some differences between the strands...
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