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The tasks as well as the types of co-operatives within an economy have continuouslybeen discussed for nearly two hundred years. Since the days ofOwen, the principles as well as the appearance of co-operatives have beenheavily disputed. This became evident by the controversy between...
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[...]In this paper, I survey the academic literature onblockholders and corporate control. As with any survey paper,I must be selective. Thus, I focus on empirical research, as Ibelieve that much of what we know about blockholders hascome through empirical investigations as opposed totheoretical...
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A central tenet of economic sociology is that culture and regulatory institutions help to constitute the nature of economic actors and guide their actions, thus affecting economic outcomes (see, e.g., DiMaggio, 1994; Smelser and Swedberg, 1994). As socially organised agents operating in different...
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[...]The New York City Social Indicators Survey (SIS)project represents one effort to track the consequences ofpolicy reform and devolution for inequality and well-beingin the largest and most diverse city in the United States.The project uses a telephone survey to collect data from arepeated...
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The paper constructs a picture of globalisation from workers’ perspective in a newlyindustrialising area in India. It brings together the insights of the spatial approach, whichfacilitates an integrated study that links various levels at which global capitalism operates,with an attention to...
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A founding member of the Historians’ Group of the Communist Party, of the journal Past and Present, and of a distinctive and distinguished School of History at the University of Birmingham, Rodney Hilton was among the most notable medieval historians of the latter half of the twentieth...
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Ludwig von Mises hat Zeit seines Lebens die intellektuelle Auseinandersetzung mitantiliberalen und antikapitalistischen Ressentiments gesucht. Der vorliegende Beitraggreift die bereits durch Mises gestellte Frage nach möglichen Gründen für dieantikapitalistischen Ressentiments der...
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Ludwig von Mises hat Zeit seines Lebens die intellektuelle Auseinandersetzung mitantiliberalen und antikapitalistischen Ressentiments gesucht. Der vorliegende Beitraggreift die bereits durch Mises gestellte Frage nach möglichen Gründen für dieantikapitalistischen Ressentiments der...
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We provide the first econometric study of efficiency for a member of the Mondragon group ofworker cooperatives. Eroski is a retail distribution chain and, most unusually, there are twodistinct types of hypermarkets: (i) cooperatives with significant employee ownership andvoice; and (ii) GESPAs...
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The British Industrial Revolution triggered a reversal in the social order whereby the landed elite was replaced by industrial capitalists rising from the middle classesas the economically dominant group. Many observers have linked this transformation to the contrast in values between a...
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