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This chapter offers a retrospective account of Baumol's contribution in light of its influence on economics and entrepreneurship studies. The first section describes the core arguments of his original paper. The second section discusses its impact on the entrepreneurship discipline. Following...
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China is recognized as one of the oldest continuous civilizations in the world and its economic and technological development has, arguably, been a world forerunner for a number of centuries. This article explores the motivation behind protection of property rights in the East, with a focus on...
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Adam Smith made two positive claims about slavery in the context of developing economies. First, Smith argued that slavery was in general highly inefficient. By his account, the net product under freedom is 12 times larger than under slavery. Second, he observes that, despite its inefficiencies,...
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Robert Triffin (1911-1993) played an important role in the international monetary debates in the postwar period. He was known as one of the main advocates of a multipolar international monetary system. In this paper we analyse the origins of Triffin's "regional" approach towards international...
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During the second half of the eighteenth century, the Ottoman policy-makers adopted a more liberal attitude towards price formation. This was accompanied by the fiscal and administrative centralization of the grain trade. These seemingly contradictory policy changes could, in part, be explained...
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Contemporary realities are shaped by the evolutions in time of the processes, phenomena, institutions etc. So from this perspective History is not a limited domain but one which interferes with all possible scopes. Therefore curricula written for EU Historical Studies programmes granted a great...
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This paper hypothesizes that the demise of the 19th century's European class structure reflects a deliberate transformation of society orchestrated by the capitalists. Contrary to conventional wisdom, it argues that the demise of this class structure was an outcome of a cooperative, rather than...
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