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This article - designed to give readers unfamiliar with public choice a historical overview and flavor for the kinds of problems considered - is divided into three main sections, "historical origins," the "modern founders of MPE," and a brief description of some "current issues" studied by...
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Environmental decisions made by individuals, civil society and the state involve questions of economic efficiency, environmental effectiveness, equity and political legitimacy. These four criteria are constitutive of economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development, which...
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von Charasoff. / »The Crisis of German Economic Thinking in the First World War Era« -- This volume deals with the crisis … of academic economics in the German language area at the beginning of the 20th century. It provides ample evidence with … regard to controversies in the German Economics Association, the participation of economists in German war planning, and the …
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method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics. Of 450 genuinely world-leading journal articles, the UK produced 10 … well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a …
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Modern economics has, at its foundation, scholarly contributions from many prominent Scottish thinkers. This revealing … contribution over three centuries in the light of a distinctive Scottish approach to economics. Scottish Enlightenment is an …
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of his works was published as volume 8 in the series Classics in Hungarian Economics (Old truths and new theories in … economics by Ákos Navratil, (int., ed. by M. Hild)). The study focuses on one element from his wide array of interests in … economic theory: his evaluation of the physiocracy. The main topics addressed include a historical evaluation of the …
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This book considers the relationship between Hayek and Mill, taking issues with Hayek's criticism of Mill and providing a broader perspective of the liberal tradition. Featuring contributions from the likes of Ross Emmett, Leon Montes and Robert Garnett, these chapters ask whether Hayek had an...
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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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During the last three decades the ascent of behavioral economics clearly helped to bring down artificial disciplinary … boundaries between psychology and economics. Noting that behavioral economics seems still under the spell of the rational choice … economics" might mirror the rise of cognitive psychology" without endangering the advantages of the division of labor and of …
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Anläßlich der hundertsten Wiederkehr von Knut Wicksells Werk 'Geldzins- und Güterpreise' (1898) hat sich der Dogmenhistorische Ausschuß des Vereins für Socialpolitik auf seiner 18. Tagung dem bedeutenden Ökonomen gewidmet. Insbesondere die noch immer gültige Modernität der Aussagen...
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