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religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on … increasing the chances to be an entrepreneur by around 3% with respect to Catholicism. Our findings, stable across a number of …
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This essay argues that economic systems should be defined in terms of clusters of complementary institutions. To show how such an approach can be carried out, I use a cluster analysis technique and data on forty different economic institutions in OECD nations to isolate four quite different...
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This paper is the keynote speech delivered by Professor William Baumol at the First World Congress of Environmental Economists that was held in Venice on June 25-27, 1998. It analyses the situation of the environment under different economic regimes: the feudal society, Marxism and capitalism....
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Walter Eucken gilt als einer der bedeutendsten deutschen Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, der unter anderem die Freiburger Schule gründete und damit einen wesentlichen Einfluß auf die Entstehung der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft hatte. Haben sich Euckens Handlungsanweisungen an den Staat aber als...
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Dieser Beitrag erläutert (1) die Fragestellung des Hayekschen Gesamtwerks. Ferner skizziert er (2), wie Hayek diese Fragestellung mit seinem Ansatz bearbeitet hat. Sodann werden (3) Stärken und Schwächen dieses Ansatzes diskutiert. Abschließend (4) formuliert dieser Beitrag Lektionen für...
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The paper describes boom-and-bust cycles within Hayek's framework of order and aims to provide an understanding of recurring crises in recent financial history. We argue that a boom-and-bust cycle is initiated by a displacement that lowers the degree of (ex-post) plan coherence (or order) in an...
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Does Protestantism favour the market economy more than Catholicism does? We provide a novel quasi-experimental way to …
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