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The Grand Experiment of Communism: Discovering the Trade-off between Equality and Efficiency
Farvaque, Etienne; Mihailov, Alexander; Naghavi, Alireza - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2011
This paper aims to explain the rise and fall of communism by exploring the interplay between economic incentives and …, and back to restoring market incentives. The grand experiment of communism is thus characterized to have led to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246553
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The Grand Experiment of Communism: Discovering the Trade-off between Equality and Efficiency
Farvaque, Etienne; Mihailov, Alexander; Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
This paper aims to explain the rise and fall of communism by exploring the interplay between economic incentives and …, and back to restoring market incentives. The grand experiment of communism is thus characterized to have led to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320986
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The Grand Experiment of Communism: Discovering the Trade-off between Equality and Efficiency
Farvaque, Etienne; Mihailov, Alexander; Naghavi, Alireza - Henley Business School, University of Reading - 2011
This paper aims to explain the rise and fall of communism by exploring the interplay between economic incentives and …, and back to restoring market incentives. The grand experiment of communism is thus characterized to have led to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009204964
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Social Capital: A Standard Method of Measurement.
Hjollund, L.; Svendsen, G.T. - Nationalökonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 2000
The purpose of this paper is to suggest a standard method of measurement for social capital. Various authors have investigated the influence of social capital on economic growth but still social capital has not been measured in any satisfactory way. So far, each survey has used its own ad hoc...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005671686
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Building and destroying social capital: The case of cooperative movements in Denmark and Poland
Chloupkova, Jarka; Svendsen, Gunnar; Svendsen, Gert - In: Agriculture and Human Values 20 (2003) 3, pp. 241-252
Social capital, measured as the level of trustamong people, may be regarded as a newproduction factor alongside the traditionalones of human and physical capital. Withappropriate levels of social capital,monitoring and transaction costs can be savedand thus economic growth stimulated. Vialinking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010634544
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A Comparative Study of the Major Economic Systems in the aftermath of the Great Recession
Shaikh, Salman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper compares the fundamental postulates of major economic systems i.e. Capitalism, Socialism, Mixed economy (a … hybrid of Capitalism and Socialism) and the Islamic economic system. It identifies through a review of theoretical economics … system are the major problematic issues in Capitalism against which mixed economy has also shown limited effectiveness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497696
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Searching for the accounting features of capitalism: an illustration with the economic transition process in China
Chiapello, Eve; Ding, Yuan - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2005
In this paper, the authors show that capitalism and double-entry bookkeeping are not indissociably interconnected as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011578
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Social Capital: A Standard Method of Measurement
Hjøllund, Lene; Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard - Nationalökonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 2000
The purpose of this paper is to suggest a standard method of measurement for social capital. Various <p> authors have investigated the influence of social capital on economic growth but still social capital has <p> not been measured in any satisfactory way. So far, each survey has used its own ad hoc...</p></p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652457
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Social Foundations of the Economy, from <i>From Communists to Foreign Capitalists: The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe</i>
Bandelj, Nina - Princeton University Press
century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization. Delving into the economic change that accompanied these shifts … of FDI as an integral part of their market transition. The inflows of foreign capital after the collapse of Communism … decade following the collapse of Communism in 1989, the book reveals how social forces not only constrain economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696673
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Howard Conference on Jobs: A Union Perspective
Golash, Michael - In: The Review of Black Political Economy 39 (2012) 1, pp. 183-186
The article looks critically at the many job creation proposals formulated by scholars and at federal legislation mandating full employment. It concludes that the lack of jobs in a modern capitalist society is rational and to end unemployment requires a systemic change. Copyright Springer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010600680