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Generating Stable University Funding Mechanisms : Income Contingent Loan Structure Choice within the Irish Higher Education System
Corbet, Shaen - 2017
This paper presents an exploratory analysis of the funding mechanisms for higher education across sixteen countries which builds upon existing work on educational institutions, educational outcomes and welfare regimes. We focus upon the current financing dilemma within the Irish higher education...
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The Economic, Legal and Ethical Philosophy of Frédéric Bastiat
McGee, Robert W. - 2014
Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was an economist and journalist. A member of the French Liberal School, he is best known for his free trade ideas and his philosophy of law. Mark Blaug ranks him as one of the 100 greatest economists before Keynes. Schumpeter called him a brilliant economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054141
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Education, Economics and the Philosophy of Frédéric Bastiat
McGee, Robert W. - 2014
Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) was an economist and journalist. A member of the French Liberal School, he is best known for his free trade ideas and his philosophy of law. Mark Blaug ranks him as one of the 100 greatest economists before Keynes. Schumpeter called him a brilliant economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054150
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A Generation of Italian Economists
Nano, Enrico; Panizza, Ugo; Viarengo, Martina - 2021
We examine the role of financial aid in shaping the formation of human capital in economics. Specifically, we study the impact of a large merit-based scholarship for graduate studies in affecting individuals' occupational choices, career trajectories, and labor market outcomes of a generation of...
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Viewer Sampling and Quality Signaling in a Television Market
Celik, Levent - 2009
information, may be sufficient to signal high quality without any dissipative advertising …
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The Origins of Public Choice and Virginia Political Economy : What Might Arthur Lovejoy Have Thought?
Wagner, Richard E. - 2015
choice descends from the neoclassical focus on rational action applied to voting. While the scholars associated with Virginia … political economy likewise displayed an interest in rationality and voting, their core ideas descended from the confluence … rationality and voting based on demonstrative reasoning reflects a different analytical vision than does a classical theory of …
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The Principle of Greatest Happiness in Western Economic Thought and its Relation to Buddhist Economics
Erber, Georg - 2008
Western economic thinkers in the 19th century rediscovered the principle of greatest happiness (PGH). However, as Eastern philosophical and religious thinking shows it was part of common knowledge in Buddhism and Hinduism over the past millennia. PGH did not have the same agenda as later on...
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Recherche et enseignement supérieur : les défis de la discipline économique
Malinvaud, Edmond - In: Revue économique : revue bimestrielle 52 (2001) 5, pp. 1043-1053
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The knowledge we have lost in information : the history of information in modern economics
Mirowski, Philip; Nik-Khah, Edward - 2017
neoliberals -- The socialist calculation controversy as the starting point of the economics of information -- Hayek changes his … mind -- The neoclassical economics of information was incubated at cowles -- Three different modalities of information in …
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The Making of a Constitutionalist : James Buchanan on Education
Fleury, Jean-Baptiste - 2018
This article studies the few works James Buchanan wrote on education from the end of the 1950s to the early 1970s. These neglected works tell us important things about how Buchanan's ideas on constitutions evolved through time, because they provided Buchanan with the opportunity to apply his...
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