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How to be an Ecological Economist
Faber, Malte - 2007
To answer the question "How to be an Ecological Economist", we must start by defining the field of Ecological Economics. Mainstream Economics altogether lacks the concepts required to deal adequately with nature, justice and time. It was the absence of these three concepts in this otherwise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422164
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Contribution to productivity or pork barrel? The two faces of infrastructure investment
Cadot, Olivier; Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Stephan, Andreas - 2002
accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy process driving infrastructure investments; in doing so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330110
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Democracy Deficits, Inequality and Pollution. A Politico-Economic Analysis
Drosdowski, Thomas - 2005
, efficiency and growth. We find that left regimes, choosing more progressive redistribution, maintain better environmental quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262943
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Contribution to Productivity or Pork Barrel? The Two Faces of Infrastructure Investment
Cadot, Olivier; Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Stephan, Andreas - 2004
accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy process driving infrastructure investments; in doing so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265699
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Uncertainty and the politics of employment protection
Vindigni, Andrea - 2008
productivity growth, i.e. bad times, "increase the political support for more labor market rigidity only where labor appropriates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268688
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Talking exports: The representation of Germany's current account in newspaper media
Maschke, Andreas - 2024
paper discusses and situates these results within the recent growth model literature in comparative political economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528275
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Religion and Growth
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2024
- together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue … that religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532922
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Lobbying for Industrialization: Theory and Evidence
Veselov, Dmitry; Yarkin, Alexander - 2024
Industrial policies, such as infrastructure investments and export tariffs, affect the allocation of labor and incomes across sectors, attracting substantial lobbying efforts by special interest groups. Yet, the link between structural change and lobbying remains underexplored. Using more than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014542190
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The political economy of redistribution and (in) efficiency in Latin America and The Caribbean
Altube, Matias Guizzo; Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, … - 2023
macroeconomic imbalances, high inflation, low growth, as well as low-quality public policies. When redistributive efforts are short … that reduce growth and thwart poverty reduction efforts. The argument of this paper is that there are various possible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014564012
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Lobbying for industrialization: Theory and evidence
Veselov, Dmitriy; Yarkin, Alexander - 2024
Industrial policies, such as infrastructure investments and export tariffs, affect the allocation of labor and incomes across sectors, attracting substantial lobbying efforts by special interest groups. Yet, the link between structural change and lobbying remains underexplored. Using more than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014581196