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. This essay focuses on structural analysis of the distinction between these two fractions of the elite and the implications …
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experts in entrepreneurship, regional economics, and economic geography, this book will be a valuable reading for advanced …
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What differentiates American capitalism from all other forms of industrial capitalism is a historical focus on both the … creation of wealth (entrepreneurship) and the reconstitution of wealth (philanthropy). Philanthropy has been part of the … way for future economic growth. This entrepreneurship-philanthropy nexus has not been fully explored by either economists …
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What differentiates American capitalism from all other forms of industrial capita-lism is a historical focus on both … the creation of wealth (entrepreneurship) and the reconstitution of wealth (philanthropy). Philanthropy has been part of … paved the way for future economic growth. This entrepreneurship-philanthropy nexus has not been fully explored by either …
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Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. In the United States, however, rates of self employment among … populations residing in Mexico and the U.S. accounts for the differences in the self employment rates in the two countries. Within …
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Political connections between firms and autocratic regimes are not secret and often even publicly displayed in many developing economies. We argue that tying a firm's available rent to a regime’s survival acts as a credible commitment forcing entrepreneurs to support the government and to...
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examining Philippine governance and the roles of policymakers and voters more deterministically. Patronage and political … shown that certain activities used to perpetuate patronage and dynasties (also called family networks) such as coercion …
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literature on twentieth-century Mexican social sciences. Just like clientelism, science patrons such as US philanthropic … perceived as clientelism and amateurism at Latin American universities, it claimed to patronise liberal scholarship, practised … their grants. In Mexico in the 1940s, the Rockefeller Foundation boosted the humanities, but missed the opportunity to …
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Voter coercion is a recurrent threat to pro-poor redistribution in young democracies. In this study we focus on Mexico …
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The recent shift from ‘global villageism’ to the ‘new wars’ revealed a deep crisis in heterodox political economy. The popular belief in neoliberal globalization, peace dividends, fiscal conservatism and sound finance that dominated the 1980s and 1990s suddenly collapsed. The early 2000s...
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