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Potterian economics
Levy, Daniel C.; Snir, Avichai - 2017 - Last Revision: January 20, 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588398
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Potterian economics
Levy, Daniel C.; Snir, Avichai - 2017 - Last revision: January 20, 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011590696
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Economic Growth in the Potterian Economy
Snir, Avichai; Levy, Daniel - In: The Law and Harry Potter, (pp. 211-236). 2010
We study the economic structure of the life of Harry Potter and his co-actors as an economic model that governs the social organization of their economic activities. Our goal is to study and understand the internal consistency of the Potterian economic model and explore the relationships between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427276
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Regulatory Cycles : Revisiting the Political Economy of Financial Crises
Dagher, Jihad C. - 2018
Financial crises are traditionally analyzed as purely economic phenomena. The political economy of financial booms and busts remains both under-emphasized and limited to isolated episodes. The policy discussions and economic literature generated by the most recent wave of financial crises have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936206
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Regulatory Cycles : Revisiting the Political Economy of Financial Crises
Dagher, Jihad C. - 2018
Financial crises are traditionally analyzed as purely economic phenomena. The political economy of financial booms and busts remains both under-emphasized and limited to isolated episodes. This paper examines the political economy of financial policy during ten of the most infamous financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924255
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Potterian Economics
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965046
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Economics, Postcolonial Theory and the Problem of Culture : Institutional Analysis and Hybridity
Zein-Elabdin, Eiman O. - 2010
examining some hybrid economic patterns within Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150392
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Literature and political economy : an invitation
Bikler, Šimšōn; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2019
Most people think of science and literature as distinct human endeavours. According to received convention, science is mostly about "mind", whereas literature is largely about "heart". Science, goes the argument, is by and large rational, literature primarily emotional. Science is about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124836
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Occupational segregation by race in South Africa after apartheid
Gradín, Carlos - 2017
South Africa. Empirical analysis, using census microdata and Labour Force Surveys, does not provide strong evidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628231
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Agricultural Export Performance in Africa: Elements of comparison with Asia
Ngaruko, Floribert - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003
This study addresses the strategies and the factors of agricultural export performance in Africa compared with other … agricultural export commodities, either primary or processed, are less diversified in sub-Saharan Africa as compared to Asia, but … that diversification evolves more favorably in Africa compared to Asia for primary, as opposed to processed, agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755026