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Studie zu Dispozinsen / Ratenkrediten - Forschungsvorhaben zur Bereitstellung wissenschaftlicher Entscheidungshilfe für das Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verb...
Dick, Christian D.; Knobloch, Michael; Al-Umaray, Kerim S. - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für … - 2012
Fehlnutzungen zu vermeiden: hierzu gehören eine klare Wucher- bzw. Preisobergrenze und eine hervorgehobene Preisangabe in der … Konditionen. Es ist möglich, dass klare Wucher- bzw. Preisobergrenzen zu einer Kostenverlagerung führen; dies kann anhand dieser … different legal rules, among such possible regulations are clear usury ceilings, prominent price disclosure in advertisements …
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Comment on Tollison’s contributions to economic history and the history of economic thought
Stephenson, Matthew - In: Public Choice 142 (2010) 3, pp. 481-483
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Grain Prices and Mortality - A Note on La Michodières Law
Chevet, Jean-Michel; Gráda, Cormac Ó - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2004
Research linking food prices and excess mortality has a long history in applied economics and economic history. It goes back to 1766, when Jean-Baptiste de la Michodière was the first to use empirical data to argue for a positive association between wheat prices and mortality. Here La...
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Benjamin Franklin: A Liberal Practitioner of Political Economy
Petrella, Frank - Department of Economics and Accounting, College of the … - 1994
Few eighteenth century practitioners of political economy have been as misunderstood or stereotyped as Benjamin Franklin. His economic essays which spanned a sixty-one year period (1729-1790), still create disagreement among scholars even on the doctrinal origins of Franklin's economic ideas. If...
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A Century of American Economic Review
Torgler, Benno; Piatti, Marco - Law, Economics and Institutions, Boalt School of Law - 2011
Using information collected from American Economic Review publications of the last 100 years, we try to provide answers to various questions: Which are the top AER publishing institutions and countries? Which are the top AER papers based on citation success? How frequently is someone able to...
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Economics Education after the Crisis: Pluralism, History, and Institutions
Peterson, Janice - In: Journal of Economic Issues 47 (2013) 2, pp. 401-410
The economic crisis unleashed criticism of the economics profession in the popular press and raised discussions about the adequacy of traditional economics education to new levels. This paper considers how the criticism of traditional economics and economics education, highlighted by the crisis,...
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Post-Keynesian Perspectives on Economic Development and Growth.
Kriesler, Peter - School of Economics, UNSW Business School - 2011
As history, institutions, social and political forces specific to any economy have a profound effect on that economy’s dynamics, it is important to understand how these have evolved with the development of capitalism. The classical economists analysed economies with labour surpluses, which...
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A Century of American Economic Review
Torgler, Benno; Piatti, Marco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
Using information collected from American Economic Review publications of the last 100 years, we try to provide answers to various questions: Which are the top AER publishing institutions and countries? Which are the top AER papers based on citation success? How frequently is someone able to...
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Engel’s Law Around the World 150 Years Later
Anker, Richard - Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University … - 2011
One of the most enduring relationships in economics is that proposed by Ernst Engel in 1857: “The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo [family expenditures] which must be used for food. … The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal is...
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A Century of American Economic Review
Torgler, Benno; Piatti, Marco - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2011
Using information collected from American Economic Review publications of the last 100 years, we try to provide answers to various questions: Which are the top AER publishing institutions and countries? Which are the top AER papers based on citation success? How frequently is someone able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854183