Egy olyan esszét adunk most közre, amelyet Coase 1973-ban az Amerikai Közgazda sági Társaság éves közgyűlésén adott elő. A szöveg régi, ám a benne foglaltak saj nálatos módon ma épp úgy aktuálisak, mint annak idején. Valószínűleg ezért is dön tött úgy a szerző, hogy...

Annak ellenére, hogy a vállalkozások sikerének gazdasági és intézményi-szabályozási felfogása széles körben elfogadott, egyre inkább teret nyernek a társadalmiszociális környezet hatásait, a kulturális környezetet hangsúlyozó elméletek. A Global Entrepreneurship Monitor...

The article “the economy of creative imagination” argues in favour of the assumption that the process of creating economic goods, as well as living conditions of an individual, is accomplished, first of all, in the person\\\\\\\'s brain, in the imagination, by mobilizing the cosmic energies...

We study how the prevailing internal organization of the family affected the initial design of pension systems. Our theoretical framework predicts that, in society with weak family ties, pensions systems were introduced to act as a safety net, while in societies with strong ties they replicate...

This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that Chinese subjects in our experiments became less accepting of Confucian values, such that they became significantly more risk loving, less loss averse, and more impatient after being...

The paper looks at the factors affecting people’s attitudes towards inclusive education — a practice of educating children with special needs jointly with the «ordinary» children. The analysis uses the data from a pilot survey in four Russian regions which covered people with three...

Creativity is the ability to generate something new, merging data,perceptions and matters in order to produce new and useful things. About 22% ofthe Spanish employees belong to the «creative class» and about 5.7% of the productioncomes from the «creative industries». Despite these data, the...

Trust in the citizens of a potential partner country may affect the decision to trade with or to migrate to a foreign country. This paper employs panel data to examine the causal impact of such bilateral trust on international trade and migration patterns. We apply instrumental variables (IV)...

Some bilingual societies exhibit a distribution of language skills that can- not be explained by economic theories that portray languages as pure communication devices. Such distribution of skills are typically the result of public policies that promote bilingualism among members of both speech...

Social capital – a dense network of associations facilitating cooperation within a community – typically leads to positive political and economic outcomes, as demonstrated by a large literature following Putnam. A growing literature emphasizes the potentially "dark side" of social capital....