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This paper studies the mental distress caused by bereavement. The largest emotional lossesare from the death of a spouse; the second-worst in severity are the losses from the death ofa child; the third-worst is the death of a parent...
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We model a simple justice system in which a court is mandated by society to assess the guilt and the punishment of an accused. The court takes prison facilities as given and neglects its impact on the cost to society of implementing the sentence. Clearly, the court, in this world, will condemn...
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We use a stylized model to show that, if transfers to the poor arefounded on a security argument, there is a negative trade-off betweenlaw enforcement expenditures and criminality. In contrast, if transfersare based on altruism, the correlation between the same variables mayappear positive. We...
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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 economic freedom to life by creating 10 benchmarks that gauge …
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What differentiates American capitalism from all other forms of industrial capitalism is a historical focus on both the …
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Der Lehrtext verfolgt das Zeil, die komplexe Schrift Webers dem Leser durch einen streng am Text orientierten Nachvollzug des Argumentationsganges und der Struktur des Textes zugänglich zu machen. Durch umfangreiches Zitieren des Textes soll vor allem Weber selbst "zu wort kommen" und den Leser...
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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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In der traditionellen koreanischen Dorfgemeinschaft gab es die Gepflogenheit der Zusammenarbeit bei anstrengenden und schweren Arbeiten, insbesondere beim Reispflanzen und beim Ausjähten. Ich will Ihnen als typisches Beispiel die Turé vorstellen.
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Die kapitalistische Entwicklung und Weltmarktintegration Südkoreas hat bis jetzt 35 Jahre gedauert. Die Menschen in Südkorea haben in diesen dreieinhalb Jahrzehnten eine Entwicklung durchgemacht, die in den alten Industrieländern 150 oder sogar 250 Jahre gedauert haben.
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