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Levy, Daniel - 2017

Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience find that fictional works exert strong influence on readers and shape their opinions and worldviews. We study the Potterian economy, which we compare to economic models, to assess how Harry Potter books affect economic literacy. We find that some...

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An Economic Theory of Political Revolutions

Chen, Matthew Lee - 2020

This paper presents a tractable and parsimonious theory of political revolutions in societies devoid of democratic processes. I frame a society constituting a ruler seeking to prevent uprising and a revolutionary leader attempting to induce revolt. Both seek to appeal to a populace consisting of...

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Corruption Perceptions in Russia : Economic or Social Issue?

Rassadovskaia, Anastasiia - 2014

existing laws of one state to another. Bribery is a typical problem for developing countries as shown in the Corruption …). Corruption can have roots in socialist regimes as in recently established political stability instable economic situation may … lead to growth in crime. The main challenge within the scope of this project is to identify the relation between corruption …

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The New Comparative Economics

Shleifer, Andrei; Glaeser, Edward L.; Lopez de Silanes, … - 2004

In recent years, comparative economics experienced a revival, with a new focus on comparing capitalist economies. The theme of the new research is that institutions exert a profound influence on economic development. The authors argue that, to understand capitalist institutions, one needs to...

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La crisis económica actual: una visión desde la economía política

Sergio, Reuben - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The paper criticizes the conception of value on behalf of the conventional economic theory, blaming it for the current economic school’s incapacity to explain the actual economic crisis and to offer an adequate perspective to settle a solution. It proposes an explanation based on the tendency...

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The Great Depression in the Eyes of Bulgaria's Inter-War Economists

Kolev, Stefan - 2016

This paper reconstructs the economic policy debates in Bulgaria during the Great Depression. The goal is twofold. First, it depicts the development of Bulgarian economic thought in the inter-war period and analyzes its intellectual relationships to the evolution of European (especially...

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L'Étalon Dans La Théorie De Piero Sraffa (The Standard Commodity in Sraffa's Theory)

Benítez Sánchez, Alberto - 2014

French Abstract: Dans cet article nous montrons d'abord que, contrairement à un résultat de Sraffa, il est possible - sous certaines conditions - de définir plusieurs marchandises homothétiques sur la base du même système de production originel. Cela nous permet de montrer que le prix...

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