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Wird über Nachhaltigkeit gesprochen, so stellt sich der Eindruck ein, es gehe um einen Begriff, den bestimmte Akteure benutzen, um mit ihm interessengeleitete Praktiken zu legitimieren. Der ironische Gehalt dieser rhetorischen Figur liegt in der Überschätzung des Begriffs der Nachhaltigkeit...
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The proposition that the Global Financial Crisis was inherently unpredictable is a recurrent theme amongst those charged with preventing such events. It is also a convenient untruth. A Netherlands academic did a rather better survey of the literature than Governor Stevens, to identify 12...
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Includes descriptive metadata provided by producer in QuickTime movie file: "Politics, Economics and Social Issues - Video - Paul Volcker talks about the economic crisis." By Vanderbilt University. Paul A. Volcker, senior economic advisor to President Obama and former chairman of the Federal...
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This paper examines a profound paradox in current thinking on the process of globalisation. The paradox is this: many … commentators, particularly those living in Anglo-Saxon countries, see one of the main likely outcomes of globalisation as being the … triumph of the Ango-Saxon business model of shareholder value capitalism and its dominance over other models of capitalism. At …
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market economies declined significantly after the 1997 Financial Crisis. In 2002, the world's net private capital flows to …
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Wie müsste eine faire Lösung des Klimaproblems aussehen? Wie sollten wir Pflichten und finanzielle Lasten der nötigen CO2-Reduktionen verteilen, wenn es dabei gerecht zugehen soll und keiner übervorteilt werden darf? In meiner Antwort auf diese ethischen Fragen stütze ich mich auf einen...
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mainly on the disastrous impacts of the global economy on food and agriculture around the world. Adequate, wholesome food is … social costs of globalisation, and the consumer monoculture it promotes. Social cohesion or a sense of community is … fundamental to human well-being, indeed to human happiness. As we shall see, globalisation has done much to fragment community and …
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This dissertation is a collection of four stand-alone pieces of research, written during my time at the University of Konstanz between October 2003 and October 2006. It is based on the fundamental insight that considering individual heterogeneity in theoretical and empirical analyzes can...
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Vor dem Hintergrund der bisherigen theoretischen und empirischen Studien untersucht diese Arbeit vornehmlich die kausale Beziehung zwischen ausländischen Direktinvestitionen (DI) und Wirtschaftswachstum in 6 lateinamerikanischen Ländern.Die wachsenden Zuflüsse ausländischer...
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The banking and currency crises of the last two decades inflictedsubstantial financial, economic, and social damage on thecountries in which they originated. In this work, the efficiencyof early warning indicators for these disastrous economic eventsis evaluated. An analysis of the traditional...
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