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Japanese competition, are important in the history of thinking on business ethics, and are of relevance for today … increasingly debated. Concerns about standards of business ethics extended to other industrialising economies, such as the United … History at the London School of Economics, UK. She has published widely on the economic and social history of modern Japan …
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In the rich Western societies, the several crises at the beginning of this century focus on the worsening of old economic and social problems, which have taken on new importance in the cities undergoing a rapid transformation because of the globalization and the new structures of the labor...
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three institutions as "protagonists" - the Königlich Preußische Bank, the Seehandlung, and the Disconto-Gesellschaft - and … follows them through four phases of Prussian and German history: feudal Prussia from Friedrich II to the defeat against … Napoleonic Wars. Second, central banking institutions have historically shifted within the public-private spectrum. The state …
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This paper provides a framework to assess correlations between the change of institutional functions (political centralization, plurality, rule of law, security of property, economic liberty, measured by 12 indicators) and improvements in human development (income, education, health) and...
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We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in a historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear versus complex families) and inheritance rules (partition versus...
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