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Asabiyya: Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565187
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Testing an EU-Candidate's Place on the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values: The Case of Turkey
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764609
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Towards new maps of global human values, based on World Values Survey (6) data
Tausch, Arno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
clearly to be associated with the loss of religion (irrespective of the predominant denomination in a country): the distrust … old religion of Judaism and also Christian Protestantism emerge as the role models for other religions how to combine … religion and the traditions of the Enlightenment. Interestingly enough, also Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism and Roman Catholicism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240198
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Los católicos globales. El primer sondeo global del catolicismo mundial según el “World Values Survey” y el “European Social Survey”
Tausch, Arno; Ghymers, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
the World Values Survey, a total of 8.4% of Catholics are prepared to even sacrifice their life for their religion, and 11 … violence for political ends. Our empirical research shows that from the point of view of the sociology of religion, there are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294601
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The efficiency and effectiveness of social spending in the EU-27 and the OECD – a 2011 reanalysis
Tausch, Arno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this contribution, we look again at the trajectory and the efficiency of the ‘European social model’ (EMS). We re-apply an econometric methodology, which was already used in the study Herrmann, Heshmati et al., 2008, 2009. In that study, the authors said that apart from Finland and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322634
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On the Multivariate Analysis of the "Lisbon Process"
Heshmati, Almas; Tausch, Arno; Bajalan, Chemen S.J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Starting from Professor Kornai’s assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762392
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The Efficiency of Social Expenditures in the Fight Against Extreme Poverty in Europe [Die Effizienz Der Sozialausgaben Im Kampf Gegen Extreme Armut in Europa]
Tausch, Arno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In this qualitative sociological and quantitative economic policy paper, we show the trade-off between social expenditures and absolute poverty, and construct a non-parametric efficiency indicator, combining the residuals from the trade-off between social expenditures per capita and absolute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621520
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A political theory of Russian orthodoxy: Evidence from public goods experiments
Grigoriadis, Theocharis - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Freie Universität … - 2013
discipline. I argue for the existence of an Eastern Orthodox hierarchy in the Russian bureaucracy that facilitates the delivery …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010983200
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Afterword: Europe and the political geography of global confrontation. A world system perspective on Behind the War on Terror (N. Mosaddeq Ahmed)
Tausch, Arno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Behind the War on Terror: Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq by: Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed Manufacturer: Clairview Books Release Date: 23 June, 2003 Media: Paperback Sales Rank: 3,781 This afterword to this brilliant book starts from the assumption that both Europe and the Arab world...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835959
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The scientist and the church
Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836969