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Developing Ireland: Committing to economic openness and building domestic institutional capabilities
Teague, Paul - 2009
This paper sets out to explain the factors behind Ireland's exceptional period of economic growth from the early 1990s …
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Ireland – politics, institutions and post-war economic growth
Barry, Frank - In: CESifo Forum 09 (2008) 1, pp. 23-34
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695889
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Economic history or history of economics? A review essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The story of economic genius
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2011
In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282450
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The European Labour Markets - The Search for Routes to Better Economic Performance in Continental Europe
Zoega, Gylfi; Phelps, Edmund - In: CESifo Forum 05 (2004) 1, pp. 3-11
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695744
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China – opportunities of and constraints on the new global player
Siebert, Horst - In: CESifo Forum 08 (2007) 4, pp. 52-61
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Ranking of Countries - The WEF, IMD, Fraser and Heritage Indices
Ochel, Wolfgang; Röhn, Oliver - In: CESifo DICE Report 04 (2006) 2, pp. 48-60
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Keynes und die Zukunft der Enkel
Pies, Ingo - 2013
Im Jahr 1930 veröffentlichte Keynes einen Aufsatz über die Zukunft der Enkel, in dem er die Lösung des ökonomischen Problems und mithin das Ende der bisherigen Menschheitsgeschichte prognostizierte. Diese Prognose und die zahlreichen Implikationen, die Keynes aus ihr herleitete, werden hier...
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Early starts, reversals and catchup in the process of economic development
Chanda, Areendam; Putterman, Louis - 2004
Early states like China, India, Italy and Greece have been experiencing more rapid economic growth in recent decades than have later-comers to agriculture and statehood like New Guinea, the Congo, and Uruguay. We show that more rapid growth by early starters has been the norm in economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318983
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The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship and foreign direct investment
Ács, Zoltán J.; Brooksbank, David J.; O'Gorman, Colm; … - 2007
explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to …-based entrepreneurship, we outline FDI and entrepreneurship policies for Wales and Ireland and key measures of knowledge creation, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271769
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The impact of a carbon tax on economic growth and carbon dioxide emissions in Ireland
Conefrey, Thomas; Gerald, John D. Fitz; Valeri, Laura … - 2008
This paper analyses the medium-term effects of a carbon tax on growth and CO2 emissions in Ireland, a small open … economy. We find that a double dividend exists if the carbon tax revenue is recycled through reduced income taxes. If the … clear shift of the tax burden from labour to capital. Finally, most of the effect on the economy is due to changes in the …
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