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economic development and the dynamics of inequality withinand across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit … evolved non-monotonicallyin the course of human history. In early stages of development, risk-tolerant, growthpromoting traits … process of economic development. Inmature stages of development, however, risk-averse traits gained an evolutionary advantage …
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The internationalization of services is a natural part of the evolutionary development of anopen market economy. This … millennia. The internationalization(or globalization) of economic activity was a process that began many thousands of yearsago …
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This article mobilizes and integrates both existing and new time series data on real wages, physical heights and age-heaping to examine the long-term trend of living standards and human capital for China during the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Our findings confirm the existence of a...
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Europe in the sixteenth and most of the seventeenth century was engulfed in a wave of Sinophilia. However, by the eighteenth century a dramatic shift in the popular view of China in Europe occurred and Sinophobic writings began to dominate. The primary scholarly argument about the causes behind...
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Recently, there has been a growing interest in social capital and in the difficulties related to its measurement. In this paper, we propose to measure social capital by means of principal components analysis. Then, we present the first available international social capital estimates for the...
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in 1998, by settingthem in the context of the development of disability benefits since theearly 1970s. The first section …
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There has been a remarkable growth in evolutionary economics since the 1980s. But despitethis outward success there has … evolutionary economics. Its primary emphasis is on ontology.[...] …
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a critical cognitive firm size intheir development beyond which the level of cooperation deteriorates rapidly …
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The paper discusses recent trends in the sister sciences of evolutionary economics andcomplexity economics. It suggests … that a unifying approach that marries the two strands isneeded when reconstructing economics as a science capable of …
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view on Darwinizing evolutionary economics that differs from the view espoused in Hodgson and Knudsen project of …
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