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The Biological Standard of Living in the two Germanies
Komlos, John; Kriwy, Peter - 2003
Physical stature is used as a proxy for the biological standard of living in the two Germanies before and after unification in an analysis of a cross-sectional sample (1998) of adult heights, as well as among military recruits of the 1990s. West Germans tended to be taller than East Germans...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427379
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The Biological Standard of Living in the Two Germanies
Komlos, John; Kriwy, Peter - 2001
Physical stature is used as a proxy for the biological standard of living in thetwo Germanies before and after unification in an analysis of a cross-sectionalsample (1998) of adult heights, as well as among military recruits of the1990s. West Germans tended to be taller than East Germans...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315135
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"Comparative (bio)economic systems" in terms of social responsibility: The natural environment : between ideal capitalism, utopian socialism and real-world interventionism
Iacob, Mihaela; Gherghina, Rodica; Crețan, Georgiana … - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 21 (2019) 52, pp. 707-727
responsibility underlying sustainability is perceived, penetrated and practiced within pure liberal capitalism / market economy …, canonical socialism / command economy, and real-world interventionism / mixed economy, offering both a priori insights and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014462060
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Instability, economic stagnation and the role of islam in the North Caucasus
Dobler, Constanze - 2011
of Islam as a destabilizing factor should not be overestimated, it is a determining characteristic regarding the region … the prevalent Russian institutional vacuum with a focus on Islam and its local characteristics. Then it is questioned … whether sustainable socio-economic development is possible within the prevalent institutional environment and whether Islam …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307927
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Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2008
In the transition from socialism to capitalism in Eastern Europe life satisfaction has followed the V-shaped pattern of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600740
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The shadows of the past: how implicit institutions influence entrepreneurship
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; … - 2009
This paper investigates the impact of implicit institutions on the decision to become an entrepreneur. Implicit institutions are here defined as mindsets that have developed as the result of norms and traditions and we expect they will have an influence on risk attitudes and opportunity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267063
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Lost in transition: life satisfaction on the road to capitalism
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2008
In the transition from socialism to capitalism in Eastern Europe life satisfaction has followed the V-shaped pattern of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268572
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Capitalism, populism and democracy: Revisiting Samuelson's reformulation of Schumpeter
Ocampo, Emilio - 2021
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy by replacing socialism with populism. According to Samuelson, "populist democracy" had … makes his reformulation of Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy seem more plausible. The objective of this paper is to review …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012609599
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African Socialism; or the Search for an Indigenous Model of Economic Development
Akyeampong, Emmanuel - 2017
Ralph Austen in African Economic History (1987) noted how few African countries explicitly choose capitalism on … independence, and for those who did it was a default model or a residual pattern. '˜African socialism' was popular in the early … some said they were not even Marxist. This paper explores the argument that African socialism was a search for an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624385
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The (im-)possibility of rational socialism: Mises in China's market reform debate
Weber, Isabella - 2021
result, Mises' critique that socialism could not achieve a rational economic order came to be debated throughout the 1980s … rational socialism and socialist markets helped to justify the Socialist Market Economy with Chinese Characteristics the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012695585