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THE FAILURE OF INDUSTRIALISM IN COMMUNIST ROMANIA
Olimpiu, Parean Mihai - - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2012) 1, pp. 345-351
country shows that the authorities had in mind a self-sufficient industrialization by providing greater care than conventional … industrial policy in Romania.Certainly that at the beginning of massive industrialization results seemed to be at least some … colapsed because of his desire to increase in the country\'s industrialization. Basically he showen the limits. This paper …
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The Decline of the Independent Inventor: A Schumpterian Story?
Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Joseph Schumpeter argued in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy that the rise of large firms%u2019 investments in in-house R&D spelled the doom of the entrepreneurial innovator. We explore this idea by analyzing the career patterns of successive cohorts of highly productive inventors from the...
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Exploring the relationship between tourism and offshore finance in small island economies: lessons from Jersey
Christensen, John; Hampton, Mark - EconWPA - 2005
Many islands host tourism and offshore finance but research tends to focus on either industry without examining the nature of the relationship(s) between these two where they co-exist. This paper examines the nature of the relationships using a case study of the British Channel Island of Jersey....
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Markets and Famines : Some Evidence from India and Ireland.
O Grade, C - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 1997
The paper offers a simple test of spatial integration in food markets during famines. It applies the test to two data sets; one for India between the 1860s and the 1910s, the other for Ireland during the Great Famine of the 1840s.
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Speed under Sail, 1750-1850
Kelly, Morgan; Gráda, Cormac Ó - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2014
We measure technological progress in oceanic shipping by using a large database of daily log entries from ships of the British and Dutch navies and East India Companies to estimate daily sailing speed in different wind conditions from 1750 to 1850. Against the consensus, dating back to North...
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América Latina y el Caribe: integración e inserción en los mercados internacionales
Reyes, Giovanni E - In: REVISTA APUNTES DEL CENES (2006)
relación a la presencia de China en el escenario internacional, y en cómo esa presencia afecta a los países latinoamericanos. …
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CHALLENGES OF THE LAND REFORM IN THE FORMER COMMUNIST STATES OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
Dragoi, Andreea; Balgar, Cristina - In: Global Economic Observer 2 (2014) 2, pp. 48-55
As it is well known, after the collapse of the totalitarian regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, the economic development of the former communist states in the region was subject to a series of systemic transformation. One of the most important was the large-scale abandonment of state...
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Capitalism vs. socialism – an attempt to analyse the competitiveness of economic systems
Zalesko, Marian - In: Ekonomia i Prawo 14 (2015) 1, pp. 61-79
This article is devoted to the analysis of the competitiveness of economic systems (capitalism and socialism) in the years 1950-1989. The author assumed that competitiveness is the ability of the surveyed economies to build prosperity. Therefore, to compare the competitiveness of both...
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Growth effects of spatial redistribution policies
Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana - In: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 36 (2012) 7, pp. 988-1008
Regional income disparities have increased in many European countries recently, even as national and supra-national policy instruments were created to correct them. To explain these evolutions, we develop a two-region, two-sector model with migration and public investment in infrastructure and...
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