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The Road to Development is Paved With Good Institutions: The Political and Economic Implications of Financial Markets

Brown, Chelsea Denise - 2008

This research seeks to identify the factors that account for the variation in development levels across nations by focusing on the institutional components of development, especially the effects of financial market development on economic and political development. I argue that financial market...

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The Political Economy of Downzoning

Adelaja, Adesoji O.; Gottlieb, Paul D. - 2009

“Substantial downzoning” is defined as the exercise of police power to significantly reduce the legally permitted density on undeveloped land in a community. This contentious practice is typically challenged by those who perceive the action to limit their market opportunities (e.g., farmers...

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Policy Responses to 2008 High Food Prices: Domestic Incentives and Global Implications

Woolverton, Andrea E.; Kiawu, James - 2009

Global food commodity price inflation beginning in 2006 and continuing through mid-2008 became a priority concern for global consumers, producers and policy-makers alike. In response, many governments across the world implemented policies targeting high food commodity prices in their domestic...

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Who Benefits from Quality Labelling? Segregation Costs, International Trade and Producer Outcomes

Jackson, Lee Ann - 2003

This paper analyses the impact of quality based labelling on product prices,factor allocation and the resulting effects on producers within the context of aninternational trading system. A general equilibrium model, calibrated to 1998 data,describes United States and European Union labelling...

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Argentinien: die Abgeordnetenwahlen von 1997

Lauga, Martín - 1998

Argentinian democracy. …

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The moral foundations of liberal democracy : about the necessity of liberal civic virtues

Egle, Christoph - 2000

Numerous sociological studies describe the status of contemporary liberal democracy as frightening. Taking up these … investigations, this article asks for the preconditions of liberal democracy, particularly for their moral foundations. In contrast … a moral quality of the citizens is a necessary prerequisite for the persistence of a liberal democracy. The second aim …

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Income and democracy : revisiting the evidence

Moral-Benito, Enrique; Bartolucci, Cristian

Este artículo ofrece una evaluación de la contribución al PIB de la infraestructura. A partir de un conjunto de datos de infraestructura que abarca 88 países durante los años 1960-2000, y utilizando un enfoque de panel de series de tiempo, el trabajo estima una función de producción...

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Political Economy of climate change, ecological destruction and uneven development

School of Economics and Finance

The purpose of this paper is to analyze climate change and ecological destruction through the prism of the core general principles of political economy. The paper starts with the principle of historical specificity, and the various waves of climate change through successive cooler and warmer...

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The Global Securitized Subprime Market Crisis

School of Economics and Finance

This paper examines the global securitised subprime crisis through the lens of core general principles of political economy. The principle of historical specificity is used to situate the crisis in cycles and historical time. The principle of circular and cumulative causation scrutinises the...

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The Principle of Circular and Cumulative Causation: Myrdal, Kaldor and Contemporary Heterodox Political Economy

O'Hara, Phillip - 2009

The first main section studies the similarities and differences between the Myrdalian and Kaldorian CCC frameworks. The second section develops a general system model of integration between the two traditions. There is a large measure of continuity between the two CCC approaches; they complement...

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