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Scientific rhetoric can have a profound impact on the perception of research; it can also drive and direct further … be so that authors call for significant policy changes? These questions are difficult to answer, because rhetoric on the … wording in these studies and their prevalence to ask for policy intervention. Furthermore, we examine whether the rhetoric …
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Scientific rhetoric can have a profound impact on the perception of research; it can a lso drive and direct further …, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We … when they call for policy activism or when they are more hesitant to do so. Furthermore, we examine whether the rhetoric …
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This paper considers how companies use their own mass communication media to create, with the aid of metaphors, a legitimizing image of their practices. The analysis is based on the example of two banks, both of which undertook massive staff and cost reductions between 2001 and 2003. Downsizing...
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Scientific rhetoric can have a profound impact on the perception of research; it can also drive and direct further …, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We … rhetoric used really reveals an author's prejudice on the topic which may also be reflected in data selection and thereby his …
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The rhetoric of economics has long claimed scientific objectivity, however the late, great economist Joan Robinson … learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.' This unique book examines the use of rhetoric in economics, focusing on …
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Die Frage nach der Kausalität fällt in die Methodologie. Methodologie ist in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften ein Bereich …
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This paper has two sources: One is my own research in three broad areas: business cycles, economic measurement and social choice. In all of these fields I attempted to apply the basic precepts of the scientific method as it is understood in the natural sciences. I found that my effort at using...
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Dieses Discussion Paper enthält die Beiträge und einiges darüber hinausgehendes Material des Workshops zum Thema 'Kritische Reflexion empirischer Forschungsmethodik', der vom 7.9. - 9.9.2006 an der ESCP-EAP in Berlin stattfand. Der Workshop wurde von der Kommission Wissenschaftstheorie im...
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The outburst of the 2008 global economic crisis sparked a myriad of criticism on mainstream neoclassical economic theory, held responsible for not even have considered the possibility of the kind of collapse that the subprime mortgage meltdown unleashed. In this paper, it is argued that what...
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