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Improving Credibility by Delegating Judicial Competence: The Case of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Voigt, Stefan; Ebeling, Michael; Blume, Lorenz - 2004
It is argued that government credibility is an important resource and that it can be improved by delegating decision-making competence beyond the nation-state. It is hypothesized that such delegation should result in higher income and growth. Some former British colonies retained the Judicial...
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Brain drain in the age of mass migration: Does relative inequality explain migrant selectivity?
Stolz, Yvonne; Baten, Jörg - 2012
Brain drain is a core economic policy problem for many developing countries today. Does relative inequality in source and destination countries influence the brain-drain phenomenon? We explore human capital selectivity during the period 1820-1909.We apply age heaping techniques to measure human...
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Futures past: Economic forecasting in the 20th and 21st century
Fritsche, Ulrich (contributor); Köster, Roman (contributor) - 2020
forecasting has not lost its importance. Futures Past considers the history and present state of economic forecasting, giving a … societies, thereby making a broader claim for greater interdisciplinary cooperation in the history of economics. …
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Periferie europee: Istituzioni sociali, politiche, luoghi
Locatelli, Andrea (contributor); Besana, Claudio (contributor) - 2021
In the rich Western societies, the several crises at the beginning of this century focus on the worsening of old economic and social problems, which have taken on new importance in the cities undergoing a rapid transformation because of the globalization and the new structures of the labor...
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Commerce, finance and statecraft: Histories of England, 1600-1780
Dew, Ben - 2018
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, historians of England pioneered a series of new approaches to the history … followed it, to the eighteenth-century's major account of British history: David Hume's History of England. Particular … history. A broad selection of historical writing is discussed, ranging from the work of Francis Bacon and William Camden in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014321725
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Die Historizität fiktionaler Erwartungen
Beckert, Jens - 2017
Capitalist dynamics is energized in part by imaginaries of future states of the world (Beckert 2016). The paper deals with two questions: Why do fictional expectations change in the course of capitalist development? And: Are fictional expectations becoming more important in contemporary capitalism?
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Wissenschaftler auf Zeit: Die Durchsetzung der Personalpolitik der Befristung in der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft seit den 1970er-Jahren
Leendertz, Ariane - 2020
Die Mehrheit des wissenschaftlichen Personals an den Hochschulen und außeruniversitären Forschungseinrichtungen in Deutschland ist heute befristet beschäftigt. Der Beitrag rekonstruiert die Ursachen und Dynamiken dieser Entwicklung, die in den 1970er-Jahren begann, am Gegenstand der...
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The Lucas Paradox and the quality of institutions: then and now
Schularick, Moritz; Steger, Thomas M. - 2008
In the first era of financial globalization (1880-1914), global capital market integration led to substantial net capital movements from rich to poor economies. The historical experience stands in contrast to the contemporary globalization where gross capital mobility is equally high, but did...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299133
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Auf der Suche nach der nationalen Innovationskultur Deutschlands - die Etablierung der Verfahrenstechnik in der BRD, DDR seit 1950
Pieper, Christine; Handel, Kai Christian - 2003
Die Rolle der Hochschulen im Innovationssystem sowohl der BRD als auch der DDR hat sich in den letzten fünfzig Jahren zum Teil dramatisch geändert. Der Veränderungsprozess in der Bundesrepublik lässt sich grob in drei Phasen einteilen, die sich zwar überlappen, dennoch im wesentlichen eine...
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Instability, economic stagnation and the role of islam in the North Caucasus
Dobler, Constanze - 2011
location, foreign influence, its Soviet past, its history of Islamization, its societal structure, its ethnic heterogeneity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307927