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Vriend, Nicolaas J. - 2005

Various approaches used in Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE) to model endogenously determined interactions between agents are discussed. This concerns models in which agents not only (learn how to) play some (market or other) game, but also (learn to) decide with whom to do that (or not).

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'Protein' Industry Convergence and its Implications for Resilient and Equitable Food Systems

Howard, Philip H.; Ajena, Francesco; Yamaoka, Marina; … - In: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 5 (2021)

their dominance are likely to further diminish equity in food systems by exacerbating power asymmetries. In addition, the … resilience of food systems has the potential to be weakened as these strategies tend to reduce organizational diversity, as well … are most dominant in higher protein food industries globally and their recent strategic moves. We discuss the likelihood …

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Soft-wars: A Capital-as-Power Analysis of Google's Power Trajectory

Mouré, Christopher - In: Review of Capital as Power 2 (2021) 1, pp. 71-90

The capital as power framework, developed by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler, argues that the aim of business is not ‘profit maximization’ but the differential accumulation of social power. Using this framework as a theoretical starting point, I analyze the differential accumulation...

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The (evolving) role of agriculture in poverty reduction: an empirical perspective

Christiaensen, Luc; Demery, Lionel; Kuhl, Jesper - 2010

evidence indicates that agriculture is significantly more effective than non-agriculture in reducing poverty among the poorest … and the lower poverty-reducing effect of non-agriculture in the presence of extractive industries. …The role of agriculture in development remains much debated. This paper takes an empirical perspective and focuses on …

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Hierarchical organization and inequality in an economy with an implicit market for productive time

Candelon, Bertrand; Dupuy, Arnaud - 2010

This paper proposes an equilibrium theory of the organization of work in an economy with an implicit market for productive time. In this economy, agents have limited productive time and can choose to produce in autarky, buy productive time from helpers to increase own production or, sell their...

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Efficiency invites divide and coercion in the age of increasing returns to scale

Xu, Yongsheng; Yoshihara, Naoki - 2019

In the presence of (at least locally) increasing returns to scale tech- nologies, the paper asks the question: does there exist an economic system which implements Pareto efficient allocations and respects the voluntary participation principle? To answer this question, the paper formulates an...

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Notes on the accumulation and utilization of capital: Some theoretical issues

Nikiforos, Michalis - 2020

This paper discusses some issues related to the triangle between capital accumulation, distribution, and capacity utilization. First, it explains why utilization is a crucial variable for the various theories of growth and distribution-more precisely, with regards to their ability to combine an...

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Notes on the accumulation and utilization of capital: Some empirical issues

Nikiforos, Michalis - 2020

The paper makes three contributions. First, following up on Nikiforos (2016), it provides an in-depth examination of the Federal Reserve measure of capacity utilization and shows that it is closer to a cyclical indicator than a measure of long run variations of normal utilization. Other...

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The endogeneity-to-demand of the national emergency utilization rate

Nikiforos, Michalis - 2021

The paper provides an empirical discussion of the national emergency utilization rate (NEUR), which is based on a "national emergency" definition of potential output and is published by the US Census Bureau. Over the peak-to-peak period 1989-2019, the NEUR decreased by 14.2 percent. The paper...

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Globalization and the Concentration of Talent

Schetter, Ulrich; Tejada, Oriol - 2018

We analyze the allocation of talent across teams in large matching markets with competition for rank. We show that under general conditions globalization in the form of a convex transformation of payoffs promotes the concentration of talent, i.e. it makes positive assortative matching more...

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