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This paper focuses on the economic thought of engineers. By building on data of the history of the thought, we will search to define the «spirit of engineers», that is a way of construction of knowledge, characterized by a concern for the measurement, formalisation and calculation, but also...
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In This Paper We Present a Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Road Safety in Different Contexts Characterized by the Following Factors: the Presence Or the Absence of Externalities, Moral Hazard, Taxes (Subsidies), Government Regulation, Liability Rules, Liability Insurance and...
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It is argued here that Mary Wollstonecraft's pioneering contributions to the social sciences in general and to feminist studies in particular deserve fuller recognition. Her critiques of the leading conventional philosophers of her time, such as Edmund Burke, bring out the distinctive nature of...
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Career indecision plays a major role in the way students perceive their future career prospects and how they approach … way students formulate career goals. A convenience sample from honours students in Accounting Sciences, Financial … Management, Economics and Marketing was drawn and their levels of career indecision were measured using self …
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A bivariate probit model is used to predict the choice of an economics major in a sample of first-year, undergraduate … business students. The paper examines the statistical significance of a number of student-related characteristics on the … likelihood of choosing an economics major, along with the role of student personality and perceptions of the profession. Factors …
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This paper provides a brief guide for students undertaking their first piece of research. The activity of research … students, that it is helpful to set down explicitly some of those things that experienced researches have often take for …
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In the Albufera (València) region of Spain, rice has been farmed for nearly 500 years. Post-harvest flooding of rice …
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other external, imposed by changing economic, political and economics conditions. The first challenge lies in the growing …
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When the source of external capital for Continental European firms is examined, debt markets have historically supplied a much larger percentage of the external capital than equity markets, and firms rely much more on bank debt than bonds for their external funds. In this environment banks have...
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