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George Orwell and the Incoherence of Democratic Socialism
Makovi, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
George Orwell's famous fictions, Animal Farm and Nineteen-Eighty Four were intended to advocate democratic socialism by portraying undemocratic forms of socialism as totalitarian. For Orwell, democracy was a political institution which would limit the abuse of power. But there are several...
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“DECIPHERING THE POLITICAL ENTREPRENEUR’S BLACK BOX”: ON THE INCOME FUNCTION OF THE ULTIMATE DECISION MAKER IN STATE AFFAIRS
APÃVÃLOAEI, Matei-Alexandru; JORA, Octavian-Dragomir - In: Review of Economic and Business Studies (2014) 13, pp. 153-174
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Методология анализа системных противоречий общественного развития
Kaluzhsky, Mikhail - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
The thesis is devoted to studying the role of systemic contradictions in social development, the consideration of objective reasons and the conditions of their occurrence, the relationship of systemic contradictions with the processes of formation of social interests, as well as the construction...
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Libertad y desempeño económico
Mejía Cubillos, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
From a broad philosophical framework, this paper addresses the relation between freedom and economic performance. It argues for the thesis that, although a liberal system does not guarantee absolute harmony, is the only "convenient" and morally valid for a modern society. The core of this...
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The New Institutional Perspective: Concepts, Methods, Results
MÉNARD, Claude - In: Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political … (2003) 44, pp. 103-118
New Institutional Economics has developed considerably over the last twenty years, qualifying as a "progressive research program". This program is based on a hard core of concepts that apply to well identify objects: the alternative modes for organizing transactions, the institutional...
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DICTATORSHIP, LIBERALISM ANDTHE PARETO RULE: POSSIBLE AND IMPOSSIBLE
Boričić, Branislav - In: Economic Annals 54 (2009) 181, pp. 45-54
of state intervention have arisen, and the interest for social choice theory has revived. In this paper we consider three …
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Taxation and Domestic Free Trade
Johnsson, Richard - Ratioinstitutet - 2004
In this paper it is argued that the domestic division of labor and trade is organized according to the same principle as the international division of labor and trade – the Ricardian comparative advantages. After all, the ultimate source of these comparative advantages is the individual. The...
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Two Opposing Economic-Literary Critiques of Socialism: George Orwell Versus Eugen Richter and Henry Hazlitt
Makovi, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Orwell's famous fictions, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four criticized totalitarian forms of socialism from a Public Choice perspective, assuming that socialism would work as an economic system as long as the proper political institutions were in place to curb the potential for the abuse of...
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The neglected importance of Austrian thought in public economics
Salin, Pascal - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
. In fact, any human action is the outcome of a process of thought which means that there is no action without theory …. Therefore, the necessity of theorizing is not debatable, but the important problem is to select the most relevant theory. From … this point of view it is striking that most commentators did not refer to the most relevant theory to explain the recent …
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Markets vs. Politics, Correcting Erroneous Beliefs Differently
Gregor, Martin - Institut ekonomických studií, Univerzita Karlova v Praze - 2007
In the fields of social choice, public choice and political economics, the main difference between private and political choice is whether individual preferences are aggregated to make a decision. A much less studied difference is whether beliefs are aggregated to make a decision. In this paper,...
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