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Trade in differentiated manufactured goods from the same industry, between developed economies characterized by similar relative factor endowments, has been observed to be an important feature of international trade patterns since the 1960's. While the traditional, factor-proportions model of...
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The production and sale of arms is now the second largest industry in the world, only the oil industry is larger. More Third World countries produce arms now than ever before. Third World arms production may be a small percentage of total global production, but it causes an international...
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1973-85. Three perspectives are presented to explain their experiences: the export-led growth model, dependency theory, and … rent-seeking theory. It was found that rapid economic growth and a higher physical quality of life are associated with … 1973-85. Three perspectives are presented to explain their experiences: the export-led growth model, dependency theory, and …
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Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the behavioral sciences—from biology and … economics, to anthropology and political science. However, as The Bounds of Reason demonstrates, game theory alone cannot fully … Gintis shows that just as game theory without broader social theory is merely technical bravado, so social theory without …
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Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the behavioral sciences—from biology and … economics, to anthropology and political science. However, as The Bounds of Reason demonstrates, game theory alone cannot fully … Gintis shows that just as game theory without broader social theory is merely technical bravado, so social theory without …
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All three articles in my dissertation gather information from individuals, analyze it, and aggregate that information into forecasts of upcoming events. The motivation is to make forecasts more efficient (accurate and timely), more versatile (provide the most useful information for each...
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capital theory in the 1950s and 1960s. It then turns to several challenges to the limited vision of labor propounded by human …
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Australia struggles to achieve economic competitiveness, prevent expansion of the trade deficit and develop value-added production despite applications of policy strategies from protectionism to trade liberalisation. This article argues that these problems were emerging at the turn of the...
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One of the key strategies of the current Commonwealth government in Australia is to promote a dynamic entrepreneurial culture by improving the business environment for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This paper evaluates the contribution of SMEs to innovation and employment in...
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The Jobs Model of presidential election forecasting predicted well in 2004. The model, based on data available in August 2004, generated an error of only 1.3 percentage points when forecasting the incumbent share of the two-party popular vote (Lewis-Beck and Tien 2004). In contrast, the median...
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