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Austrian Economics, Evolutionary Psychology and Methodological Dualism: Subjectivism Reconsidered

Vanberg, Viktor J. - 2004

The methodological individualism and subjectivism of the Austrian tradition in economics is often associated with a methodological dualism, i.e. the claim that the nature of its subject matter, namely purposeful and intentional human action, requires economics to adopt a methodology that is...

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Corporate social responsibility: A perspective from Weberian economic sociology

Boeddeling, Jann - 2012

Answering the call for a new theoretical approach to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), this paper makes a suggestion from a Weberian perspective. It briefly appraises the existing research on CSR and develops key points of a new approach based on their criticism. Suggesting that CSR is a...

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What is infrastructure?

Buhr, Walter - 2003

After having pointed out the diverse uses of the term infrastructure in the literature on the market-economy, the different categories of infrastructure will be described. The argument in this context is that the classification of infrastructure suggested by Jochimsen has proved useful:...

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Characteristics of Terrorism

Pittel, Karen; Rübbelke, Dirk - 2009

just obeying and, hence, to be irrational. In this paper we offer a different approach which postulates rationality of all …

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Decision Processes of a Suicide Bomber – Integrating Economics and Psychology

Pittel, Karen; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2009

This paper provides a theoretical analysis regarding the rationality of suicide attacks from an economist’s point of … psychological concepts of cognitive dissonance and terror management theory into our economic analysis, we demonstrate why … – although predicted by standard economic theory – defection is a phenomenon rarely observed. We finally present some policy …

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Neoliberale Leitideen zum Staat. Die Rolle des Staates in der Wirtschaftspolitik im Werk von Walter Eucken, Friedrich August von Hayek, Ludwig von Mises und Wilhelm Röpke

Kolev, Stefan - 2011

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Israel M. Kirzner: An Outstanding Austrian Contributor to the Economics of Entrepreneurship

Douhan, Robin; Henrekson, Magnus; Eliasson, Gunnar - 2006

Kirzner defines the entrepreneurial function. In order to better understand his theory, we posit Kirzner's notion of an …

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Violence against civilians in civil wars: Looting or terror?

Azam, Jean-Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - 2001

data on refugees in Africa, showing that, after controlling for war, ODA has a positive impact on the outflow of refugees …

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Economic action in South Korea: An heuristic attempt

Lee-Peuker, Mi-Yong - 2004

This paper presents an heuristics of economic action in South Korea which is based on a qualitative study conducted on-site. It focuses on the idea of experience-near concepts - as introduced by Clifford Geertz - and is verbalised by the terms affiliation, indebtedness and mediation. The...

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The Greek tragedy: Narratives and imagined futures in the Greek sovereign debt crisis

Beckert, Jens; Arndt, H. Lukas R. - 2024

Between 2009 and 2015 Greece underwent a profound sovereign debt crisis that led to a serious political crisis in Europe and the restructuring of Greek debt. We argue that the prevalence of negative narratives about the future contributed to the changes in spreads of Greek bonds during the...

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