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Information, Knowledge and Agency: The Information Theoretic Approach and the Austrians
Runde, Jochen - In: Review of Social Economy 60 (2002) 2, pp. 183-208
Both the Information Theoretic Economics and Austrian Economics investigate the impact on market activity of problems … differences, not primarily from an abstract philosophical point of view, but by looking at substantive examples of the economics …
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State-led humanitarian aid: Another case of “government failure”
Higgs, Robert - In: The Review of Austrian Economics 26 (2013) 4, pp. 493-496
theory, Austrian economics, and the new institutional economics. He concludes that the best way to reduce human suffering in …
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Daniel Okrent, book review of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
Snow, Nicholas - In: The Review of Austrian Economics 24 (2011) 4, pp. 451-454
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Thinking about Bureaucracy: Mises versus Niskanen
Simandan, Radu - In: Romanian Economic Journal 12 (2009) 34, pp. 85-96
In this paper, I oppose the Misesian insight on the problem of bureaucracy to the theory of Niskanen. Assuming that … theory to the study of bureaucratic behavior, Niskanen shows that bureaucrats have a strong incentive to try to maximize the …
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The neglected importance of Austrian thought in public economics
Salin, Pascal - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
. In fact, any human action is the outcome of a process of thought which means that there is no action without theory …. Therefore, the necessity of theorizing is not debatable, but the important problem is to select the most relevant theory. From … this point of view it is striking that most commentators did not refer to the most relevant theory to explain the recent …
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Robust political economy
Leeson, Peter; Subrick, J. - In: The Review of Austrian Economics 19 (2006) 2, pp. 107-111
This paper introduces the idea of “robust political economy.” In the context of political economic systems, “robustness” refers to a political economic arrangement's ability to produce social welfare-enhancing outcomes in the face of deviations from ideal assumptions about individuals'...
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A journey without maps: The regional policies of the 1964-70 British Labour Government
O'Hara, Glen - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 9, pp. 1183-1195
the context of the economic environment; the structure of government; the influence of the 'new regional economics'; and …
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Beyond Collusion, Altruism or Duty: Introducing Solidarity to Economics and Game Theory.
Arnsperger, C.; Varoufakis, Y. - School of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - 1999
This paper argues in favour of introducing solidarity into economics as a new analytical category of human motivation …
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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes: cross-country and time-series evidence from the business environment and enterprise performance surveys in transition economies
Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and...
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