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Wirtschaft und Arbeitsmarkt in Ostdeutschland 1990-1993- Eine Zwischenbilanz -
Bosch, Gerhard - Universität <Duisburg - 1995
Daß die Sowjetunion zusammenbrechen und Deutschland wieder vereint werden würde, hat vor1989 eigentlich niemand geglaubt. Das Buch des russischen Dissidenten Amalrik "Kann dieSowjetunion das Jahr 1984 überleben" wurde ähnlich wie Weltuntergangsprognosen religiöserSekten belächelt, obgleich...
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The Economics of Currency Crises and Contagion: An Introduction
Pesenti, Paolo A.; Tille, Cédric - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY> - 2000
[...]We begin by discussing the so-called first generation ofmodels, in which crises are viewed in the literature as theunavoidable result of unsustainable policies or fundamentalimbalances. Next, we survey the literature on the secondgeneration of models, which highlights the possibility of...
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Business Cycles and Economic Policy, 1914-1945: A Survey
Ritschl, Albrecht; Straumann, Tobias - London School of Economics and Political Science; … - 2009
The Great War of 1914-18 constituted a major rupture for the economies of Europe in several respects. It marked the end of almost a century of uninterrupted economic growth. It ended a long period of near-universal currency stability, and set in motion a painful process of de-globalisation. It...
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Index of Economic Freedom
Heritage Foundation <United States>
For over a decade, The Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation, Washington's preeminent think tank, have tracked the march of economic freedom around the world with the influential Index of Economic Freedom. Since 1995, the Index has brought Smith's theories about liberty, prosperity and...
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On crisis models: An alternative crisis definition
Eliasson, Ann-Charlotte; Kreuter, Christof J. - 2001
In this paper we question the consensus of using a binary crisisdefinition for empirical crisis models. We believe that the most severeshortcomings of the crisis models today are in the crisis definition rather than the explanatory variables ...
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The formation of “Modern” Economics: Engineering and Ideology
Morgan, Mary S. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001
Stuart Mill's nineteenth, these might be described as the science of political economy and the art of economic governance …. The former aimed to describe the workings of the economy and reveal its governing laws while the latter was concerned with …
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Development History
Crafts, Nicholas F. R. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000
This paper discusses some aspects of the changing relationship between thestudy of economic history and development economics. Forty years ago thesubjects seemed to be quite closely linked in the sense that senior figuresstraddled both areas, the development history of the advanced countries...
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“On a Mission” with Mutable Mobiles
Morgan, Mary S. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008
: its recipesfor development, its possibilities of measurement, and fromdifferences in political economy. These dimensions … their own mission to makethe new economy. This story of mutable mobiles is revealed in thedetailed diary entries of the …,these local facts and choices had to be made consistent with eachother and with the projected future of the economy as a whole …
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Just Rewards? Local Politics and Public Resource Allocation in South India
Besley, Timothy; Pande, Rohini; Rao, Vijayendra - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
This paper uses data on elected village councils in South India to examinethe political economy of public resource …
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The de Soto Effect
Besley, Timothy; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009
improve. We discuss the implications for optimal policy andthe political economy of policy reform.[...] …
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