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The Ethical Foundations of Free Market Societies
Capaldi, Nicholas - In: Journal of Private Enterprise 20 (2004) Fall 2004, pp. 30-54
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Morality and capitalism – friends or foes?
Machan, Tibor R. - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 2 (2010) 5, pp. 387-398
A bona fide morality favours a consistent free market capitalist system of law. If there are dangers and temptations arising from such a society, let the various institutions that can develop among free people respond to them. Individuals and their various voluntary organisations – not...
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Anthropology as the basic science of economic theory: towards a cultural theory of economics
Goldschmidt, Nils; Remmele, Bernd - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 12 (2005) 3, pp. 455-469
theory requires, first of all, an appropriate understanding of culture itself. The crucial point of this paper is that … individual is located 'within the boundaries of society'. What are consequences for economic theory? First of all: Economics is a …
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An empirical study of the limits and perspectives of institutional transfers
Möller, Marie - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Westfälische … - 2012
The aim of this paper is to determine which country-specific characteristics promote and which impede the adoption of institutions. On the basis of a broad panel of 183 countries for the period between 1996 and 2010, we test whether there are tendencies towards a general improvement and towards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010984522
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Leitlinien einer ökonomischen Verfassung für Europa.
Stehn, Jürgen - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2002
. Zunächst wird – basierend auf der Theorie des fiskalischen Föderalismus – ein Referenzsystem für eine ökonomisch optimale …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008520241
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The Economic Effects of Federalism and Decentralization – A Cross-Country Assessment
Voigt, Stefan; Blume, Lorenz - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2009
effects of federalism by drawing on a simple dummy variable neglect potentially important institutional details. Based on a … principal component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and decentralization are used as variables for explaining … that institutional details do, indeed, matter. Different aspects of federalism impact on the outcome variables in different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005209054
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The Economic Effects of Federalism and Decentralization - A Cross-Country Assessment
Voigt, Stefan; Blume, Lorenz - CESifo - 2009
federalism by employing a simple dummy variable neglect potentially important institutional details. Based on a principal … component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and decentralization are used as variables for explaining differences in (1 … institutional details do, indeed, matter. Different aspects of federalism impact on the outcome variables to different degrees. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013947
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The economic effects of federalism and decentralization—a cross-country assessment
Voigt, Stefan; Blume, Lorenz - In: Public Choice 151 (2012) 1, pp. 229-254
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401857
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On the Optimal Assignment of Competences in a Multi-Level Governed European Union
Breuss, Fritz; Eller, Markus - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 7 (2003) 09
This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical research on the efficient assignment of policy tasks to different levels of government and applies the results on the delimitation of competences within the European Union. The main results are: (i) A precise derivation of an optimal degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040583
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A New Concept of European Federalism.
Frey, Bruno S. - European Institute, London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
competition between new jurisdictions. A new type of federalism based on Functional, Overlapping Competing Jurisdictions FOCJ is … lowest political units (communes) must be given the freedom to engage in forming FOCJ and must have the right to levy taxes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540432