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Bringing the Social Back into Economies: Progress or Reductionism?.

Fine, B. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2000

Section 2 of this paper suggests that economics has long sought to colonise other social sciences. It has, however, only achived limites success because of its alien methods and its need to take the social as given. Section 3 argues that there is now a newer version of economic imperialism...

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The Global Financial Crisis and the Chinese Economy: A Review of the Transmission Channels and Impacts

Wu, Cheejir - In: Applied Economics and Finance 1 (2014) 1, pp. 88-95

impacts on its finance, the main channels through which China felt the impacts were trade and trade related ones. One channel …

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Forest Biomass for Energy Production: Perceptions of State Forestry Professionals from China and India

Halder, Pradipta - In: Challenges 5 (2014) 2, pp. 338-350

successful implementation in China and India. …

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How China’s Options Will Determine Global Warming

Singer, Clifford; Milligan, Timothy; Rethinaraj, T.S. Gopi - In: Challenges 5 (2013) 1, pp. 1-25

of historical trends without policy-driven limitations has China responsible for about half of global CO2 emissions by … the middle of the twenty-first century. Results are presented for three possible actions taken by China to limit global …. Taking into account China’s expected influence and approach to limiting the impact of anthropogenic climate change allows for …

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The participant observer in the formation of economic thought Summa Oeconomiae Perlmanensis

Dopfer, Kurt - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 8 (1998) 2, pp. 139-156

This essay addresses issues related to the History of Economic Thought, Comparative Economic Analysis, and Institutional Economics alluded to in Mark Perlman's "The Character of Economic Thought, Economic Characters, and Economic Institutions". Specifically, some differences between the strands...

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Welfare Implications of Public Education Spending Rules

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Malley, Jim; … - CESifo - 2008

In this paper, we quantitatively assess the welfare implications of alternative public education spending rules. To this end, we employ a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model in which human capital externalities and public education expenditures, financed by distorting taxes, enhance the...

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Proper definitions for Risk and Uncertainty (July update with (a) better notation, (b) relative risk (c) an application to insurance)

Cool, Thomas - EconWPA - 1993

The commonly adopted definitions of risk and uncertainty generate conceptual problems and inconsistencies, and they are a source of confusion in general. However, alternative and proper definitions are: (1) First there is the distinction between certainty and uncertainty. (2) Uncertainty forks...

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A better way to account for fiat money at the Central Bank

Colignatus, Thomas - EconWPA - 2005

Proper monetary accounting rules are: (1) Central Banks should conform to the practice of the US Federal Reserve to distinguish its Balance Sheet from its Statement of Conditions. (2) Fiat money should not appear as a liability in a Balance Sheet. (3) The Central Bank should not record more...

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Workplace location and travel effects from teleworking

Lim, H.N. - EconWPA - 2002

Travel time losses in the Netherlands are likely to get worse in the years ahead if capacity is not added to cope with the demand. This particularly creates problems for business travel, which is characterized by a high “value of time”. In the Netherlands, policy makers have a long-standing...

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The Life-Cycle Pattern of Collegiate GPA: Longitudinal Cohort Analysis and Grade Inflation

Grove, Wayne A.; Wasserman, Tim - In: Journal of Economic Education 35 (2004) 2, pp. 162-174

Individual semester-by-semester undergraduate grade point average for each of the eight semesters of the collegiate academic life cycle for five entire student cohorts for the classes of 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002 at a large, private university in the northeast (N = 12,663) reveal a...

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