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Do capitalists really want a recovery? Can they afford it? On the face of it, the question sounds silly: of course capitalists want a recovery; how else can they prosper? According to the textbooks, both mainstream and heterodox, capital accumulation and economic growth are two sides of the same...
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recovery. The world remains mired in a deep, prolonged crisis, and the key question seems to be how to get out of it. The …
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prospect of recovery. The world remains mired in a deep, prolonged crisis, and the key question seems to be how to get out of …
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Is the economic and financial crisis also a crisis of Economics? From different perspectives, today there is rather … harsh criticism of Economics as a Social Science. In this paper, first, some of the recent failures of Economics are … economic model of behaviour, the mathematisation of Economics and the principle of value freedom. The ap-propriate role of the …
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This volume is a collection of papers presented at the 2007 colloquium on new perspectives on games and interaction at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam. The purpose of the colloquium was to clarify the uses of the concepts of game theory, and to identify promising new directions....
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We investigate the gender gap in Economics among bachelor's and master's graduates in Italy between 2010 and 2019 …. First we establish that being female exerts a negative impact on the choice to major in Economics: at the bachelor level …, only 73 women graduate in Economics for every 100 men, with the mathematical content of high school curricula as the key …
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We investigate the gender gap in Economics among bachelor's and master's grad- uates in Italy between 2010 and 2019 …. First we establish that being female exerts a negative impact on the choice to major in Economics: at the bachelor level …, only 73 women graduate in Economics for every 100 men, with the mathematical con- tent of high school curricula as the key …
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Economics has always had a difficult relationship with literature. Although early economists such as Adam Smith adopted …, economics had become professionalised into a self-contained discipline expressed in mathematical language and making little … effort to communicate with the general reader. The current paper looks at this anti-literary trend in economics and considers …
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Over the past century, the institution of capital and the process of its accumulation have been fundamentally transformed. By contrast, the theories that explain this institution and process have remained largely unchanged. The purpose of this paper is to address this mismatch. Using a broad...
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Over the past century, the institution of 'capital' and the process of its 'accumulation' have been fundamentally transformed. By contrast, the theories that explain this institution and process have remained largely unchanged. The purpose of this mimeograph is to address this mismatch. Using a...
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