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German sports clubs' recruitment of executive board members
Emrich, Eike; Frenger, Monika; Gassmann, Freya; … - 2019
results of our study, we examine whether Michels' "iron law of oligarchy" applies and whether democratic procedures for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433316
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Globalization and the emergence of a transnational oligarchy
Brezis, Elise S. - 2010
stratification effect will be even stronger. Globalization will bring about the formation of an international technocratic elite with … emergence of a transnational oligarchy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280198
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Are oligarchs productive? Theory and evidence
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Grygorenko, Yegor - 2008
This paper develops a partial equilibrium model to account for stylized facts about the behavior of oligarchs, politically and economically strong conglomerates in transition and developing countries. The model predicts that oligarchs are more likely than other owners to invest in productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268738
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It all depends on independence
Eckert, Daniel; Herzberg, Frederik - 2009
Eliaz (2004) has established a 'meta-theorem' for preference aggregation which implies both Arrow's Theorem (1963) and the Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem (1973, 1975). This theorem shows that the driving force behind impossibility theorems in preference aggregation is the mutual exclusiveness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272553
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Promiscuous elites and economic development
Brezis, Elise S. - 2012
bureaucratic elite has been joining the business elite after leaving office, and this in growing numbers. This relationship has … purpose of this paper is to explain why this social behavior takes place, and why the political elite does not try to prevent … it. Moreover, this paper shows that the bureaucratic elite obtains excessive bureaucratic power, and that promiscuous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335988
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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
I study a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom. Within a given occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262486
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Education and social mobility
Cremer, Helmuth; De Donder, Philippe; Pestieau, Pierre - 2010
This paper shows that the design of education policy involves a potential conflict between welfare and social mobility. We consider a setting in which social mobility is maximized under the least elitist public education system, whereas welfare maximization calls for the most elitist system. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266092
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Distribution of natural resources, entrepreneurship and economic development: growth dynamics with two elites
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2005
entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267484
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The role of higher education institutions : recruitment of elites and economic growth
Brezis, Elise S.; Crouzet, François - 2004
The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution of recruitment of elites and to investigate the nature of the links between recruitment of elites and economic growth. The main change that occurred in the way the Western world trained its elites is that meritocracy became the basis for their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261105
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Distribution of natural resources, entrepreneurship, and economic development : growth dynamics with two elites
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2005
entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261348