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Protestantism and the emergence of capitalism persists in the popuar imagination as well as the academy. This article illustrates … before the Reformation, but also the manner in which capitalism’s development in the post-reformation era contradicts Weber … institutional prerequisites of post- Reformation capitalism, and the manner in which post-Reformation political and religious …
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Abstract Many people consider Adam Smith the first economist to describe the functioning of capitalism. In fact, Smith … must be considered less the discoverer of capitalism, but rather as its inventor. The economic laws Smith formulated are …
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Is China′s “land use rights” legislation which distinguishes transferable “land use rights” and inalienable “land … economic liberalization policy of China, provided that there is a contemporaneous advance in the development of the rule of law …
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Purpose By revisiting the agency theory literature, this paper aims to both incrementally advance historical viewpoints and reveal four prominent influences on agency theory: Weber and Simon, The Great Depression, Cooperation and the Chicago School. This is critical given that understanding the...
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appreciation of this work, and considers how Kirzner’s insights might feature in a defense of Capitalism in the post- Socialist …
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expanding capitalism, empire, and white supremacy. In the school systems set up around the world, the term “civilization” was …
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machinations of late capitalism. This is accomplished in order to understand how and why its development currently occupies a place … approach relies on the work of Boltanski and Chiapello's “new spirit of capitalism” to understand the rise of the network and …
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The entrepreneur, in one form or another, has been around a long time in both economic theory and empirical studies of entry. Argues that these traditions have exhibited an over‐concern with the entrepreneur′s function at the expense of the supply of entrepreneurs, an area which has received...
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