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Micro Gains From Micro Reform
Quiggin, John - 1998
Large estimates of the benefits of microeconomic reform have been put forward in official studies. By contrast, Quiggin (1997) concludes that benefits of microeconomic reforms have been modest. A key area of disagreement relates to the claim that increased competition leads to increases in...
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Macroeconomic Reform and Technical Efficiency in Australian - Riforme macroeconomiche ed efficienza tecnica nell’industria manifatturiera australiana – un’analisi stocastica della...
Karunaratne, Neil Dias - In: Economia Internazionale / International Economics 66 (2013) 3, pp. 345-369
insights on the repercussions of the macro-economic reform policy agenda during the study period plagued by a productivity … slowdown and the productivity resurgence due to the emergence of the ‘new economy’ and now the challenges to sharpen the … provide superior testable insights on productivity and technical inefficiency than the rival non-parametric Data Envelopment …
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Looking back on microeconomic reform: a skeptical viewpoint
Quiggin, John - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2004
. Despite strong claims of success, focusing on the economic expansion since 1992, and rapid productivity growth between 1993 …
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Explaining Economic Breakdown: Equilibrium or History as Organizing Concepts?
Cornwall, John; Cornwall, Wendy - Department of Economics, Dalhousie University - 1996
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The Implicit Theory of Historical Change in the work of Alan S. Milward
Lynch, Frances M. B.; Guirao, Fernando - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011
Alan S. Milward was an economic historian who developed an implicit theory of historical change. His interpretation which was neither liberal nor Marxist posited that social, political, and economic change, for it to be sustainable, had to be a gradual process rather than one resulting from a...
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The implicit theory of historical change in the work of Alan S. Milward
Guirao, Fernando; Lynch, Frances M. B. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011
Alan S. Milward was an economic historian who developed an implicit theory of historical change. His interpretation which was neither liberal nor Marxist posited that social, political, and economic change, for it to be sustainable, had to be a gradual process rather than one resulting from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351453
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Aristotle’s Natural Wealth: The Role of Limitation in Thwarting Misordered Concupiscence
Worden, Skip - In: Journal of Business Ethics 84 (2009) 2, pp. 209-219
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The Rise and Fall of the Size of Firms
Traù, Fabrizio - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2000
This paper tries to cast a theoretical bridge between two important phenomena which have characterised the evolution of advanced capitalist countries over the second half of this century: namely, the shift from the so-called golden age to the "unstable" macroeconomic environment of the '70s and...
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European Economic Growth, 1950-2005: An Overview
Crafts, Nicholas; Toniolo, Gianni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper surveys the extensive literature on European economic growth since 1950. It presents an overview of comparative growth performance together with benchmarked growth accounting estimates. The growth experience is considered in terms of three periods, the Golden Age of 1950-73, the...
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Long term trends in the world economy: the gender dimension
Howes, Candace; Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
This paper is concerned with exploring some of the gender implications of certain long term trends which have dominated the world economy in the post World War II period. It analyzes how these trends affect men and women, and to what extent if any, they are in turn affected by gender.
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