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Evolution and the Growth Process:Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits
Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
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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Internationalization of Services: The Evolutionary Perspective
Metcalfe, John S.; Potts, Jason - Manchester Business School - 2008
The internationalization of services is a natural part of the evolutionary development of anopen market economy. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870403
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Evolution of Living Standards and Human Capital in China in 18-20th Century: Evidences from Real Wage and Anthropometrics
Baten, Jörg; Ma, Debin; Morgan, Stephen L.; Wang, Qing - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009
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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The Jesuits as Knowledge Brokers Between Europe and China (1582-1773): Shaping European Views of the Middle Kingdom
Millar, Ashley E. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
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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Is Social Capital Persistent? Comparative Measurement in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Rota, Marta Felis - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
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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The Evolution of Disability Benefits in the UK:Re-weighting the basket
Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999
in 1998, by settingthem in the context of the development of disability benefits since theearly 1970s. The first section …
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A Philosophical Perspective onContemporary Evolutionary Economics
Hodgson, Geoffrey Martin - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften - 2010
There has been a remarkable growth in evolutionary economics since the 1980s. But despitethis outward success there has been inner disagreement on fundamental issues including thebuilding blocks of evolutionary theory and the very meaning of ‘evolution’ itself. This essayprovides a...
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How Corporate Cultures Coevolvewith the Business Environment: The Case ofFirm Growth Crises and Industry Evolution
Cordes, Christian; Richerson, Peter J.; Schwesinger, Georg - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften - 2009
a critical cognitive firm size intheir development beyond which the level of cooperation deteriorates rapidly …
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Evolution and Complexity in Economics Revisited
Dopfer, Kurt - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2011
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 tackling the two key questions ofthe discipline: complex...
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Heterogeneous Economic Evolution: A Different View on Darwinizing Evolutionary Economics
Vromen, Jack - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010
Inspired by Peter Godfrey-Smith's book Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection (2009), the paper seeks to develop a view on Darwinizing evolutionary economics that differs from the view espoused in Hodgson and Knudsen project of Generalized Darwinism. It is argued that on Hodgson and...
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