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African Development,Partnership and Rationality Challenge:An Exposition
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...
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A Litmus Test of Academic Quality
Orkodashvili, Mariam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper discusses the major issues connected with the accreditation procedures in higher education system in the U.S. The questions raised are as follows: what are the reliable and credible indicators of quality instruction that could be measured in the process of accreditation of higher...
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Guido Calabresi's economic analysis of law, Coase and the Coase theorem
Marciano, Alain - In: International Review of Law and Economics 32 (2012) 1, pp. 110-118
Calabresi and Coase, two of the founding fathers of the “law and economics” movement are frequently, and paradoxically … analysis of liability rules while Coase adopted a law and economics perspective. Then, analytically, it can be shown that …
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Calabresi, "law and economics" and the Coase theorem
Marciano, Alain - International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) - 2010
In this paper, we show that, in 1961 and before he had read "The Problem of Social Cost", Calabresi reached exactly the same conclusions as the one reached by Coase and summarized by Stigler as the "Coase theorem" but he believed that this result was valid only in the theoretical world of the...
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Predicting crises: Five essays on the mathematic prediction of economic and social crises
Albers, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This volume – Predicting Crisis: Five Essays on the Mathematic Prediction of Economic and Social Crises – is the first of three sets of essays. In this first set the economic and social history of the United States is shown to be a “system of movement,” i.e. a logical and mathematic...
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Tastes, Castes, and Culture: The Influence of Society on Preferences
Fehr, Ernst; Hoff, Karla - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in behaviour are explained exclusively in terms of changes in the set of feasible alternatives. Here we...
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Tastes, castes, and culture: The influence of society on preferences
Fehr, Ernst; Hoff, Karla - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2011
Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in behaviour are explained exclusively in terms of changes in the set of feasible alternatives. Here we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293827
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Mosca, Ruffini ed Einaudi: Politica, diritto ed economia in difesa della libertà
Silvestri, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Italian Abstract: Mosca, Ruffini ed Einaudi vennero da molti riconosciuti come “Maestri di libertà”, soprattutto in virtù della loro strenua difesa della libertà durante il consolidamento del regime fascista. In questo articolo miro a ricostruire l’idea di libertà che emerse nelle loro...
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Liberalism, law, normativity. For an epistemological re-reading of the Croce-Einaudi debate
Silvestri, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
empiricism by chasing away value judgments from the field of knowledge and that of theory – or by relegating them to the sphere … Weltanschauung, the ‘incarnation of the law’, thereby demonstrating the irrepressible ideals of their discourse, such as those on … that the problem of the normativity of law is inherent to the field of knowledge (§ 2), and that it has to do with the …
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Sin, and the Economics of ‘Sin’
Yuengert, Andrew M. - In: Econ Journal Watch 11 (2014) 2, pp. 243-249
In Catholic theology, sin is a rebellion against God and against our created nature. It is an alienation of the person from his own nature whose symptoms are rebellious passions and weakened reason. This alienation is not addressed by most economic analyses of choice, even analyses that address...
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