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Harbingers of dissolution? Grain prices, borders and nationalism in the Habsburg economy before the First World War
Wolf, Nikolaus; Schulze, Max-Stephan - 2005
This paper explores the pre-First World War Austro-Hungarian economy as a prominent case where growing conflict between various ethnic and national groups within an empire might have contributed to the emergence of internal borders and even its eventual dissolution. To this end we adopt an...
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Economic nationalism and economic integration : the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the late nineteenth century
Schulze, Max-Stephan; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2009
nineteenth century Habsburg Empire - one emphasizing the centrifugal impact of rising intra-empire of nationalism, the other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266002
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Nationalism, cognitive ability, and interpersonal relations
Corneo, Giacomo - 2010
achievement trait (income). Individuals with lower cognitive ability are predicted to invest more value on nationalism and to have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300712
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New Nationalism and Development in Africa: Review Article
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa Spectrum 44 (2009) 1, pp. 111-123
About fifty years after the independence of most former colonies on the African continent, books on African nationalism … nationalism in Africa and elsewhere shows remarkable differences both in its roots and its impact, compared with that of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011331402
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Diversionary nationalism: Economic inequality and the formation of national pride
Solt, Frederick - 2008
argument is that greater economic inequality prompts states to generate more nationalism as a diversion that discourages their … data on international conflict from the Correlates of War project. Only the diversionary theory of nationalism is supported …. This conclusion is an important contribution to our understanding of nationalism as well as of the effects of economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335517
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Symbolic values, value formation and interpersonal relations
Corneo, Giacomo - 2009
achievement trait (income). Individuals who are less likely to achieve are predicted to invest more value on nationalism and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272756
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Majority-minority constellations: Towards a group-differentiated approach
Koopmans, Ruud; Orgad, Liav - 2020
Multiculturalism has taken a life of its own, swinging too far in one direction. The authors claim that the rapidly changing reality calls for a new majority-minority theory and argue that the moral justifications for cultural minority rights should also apply to majority groups. They present...
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Grain prices and mortality: A note on la Michodières law
Chevet, Jean-Michel; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2004
Research linking food prices and excess mortality has a long history in applied economics and economic history. It goes back to 1766, when Jean-Baptiste de la Michodière was the first to use empirical data to argue for a positive association between wheat prices and mortality. Here La...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293891
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A note on Wick products and the fractional Black-Scholes model
Björk, Tomas; Hult, Henrik - 2005
In some recent papers, such as Elliott & van der Hoek, Hu & Öksendal, a fractional Black-Scholes model have been proposed as an improvement of the classical Black-Scholes model. Common to these fractional Black-Scholes models, is that the driving Brownian motion is replaced by a fractional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281205
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Spatial Convergence in Height in East-Central Europe, 1890-1910
Brabec, Marek; Komlos, John - 2007
We examine spatial convergence in biological well-being in the Habsburg Monarchy circa 1890-1910 on the basis of evidence on the physical stature of 21-year-old recruits disaggregated into 15 districts. We find that the shorter was the population in 1890 the faster its height grew thereafter....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427501