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The quantitative evaluation of research performance in business administration has recently gained some attention in German-speaking countries. This holds especially for rankings of persons, which are discussed controversially. Rankings of academics can be constructed in two different ways,...
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power of market forces to solve any economic problem. Neoclassical economics can be blamed for creating the ideological … economics methodology, arguing the need to approach the economy as an interactive complex system, and discussing the use of … mathematics in economics, it is argued that the main object of economists´ efforts should be economic illness rather than economic …
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huge influence on how economics in Cambridge has been taught and researched. He held leadership positions in the Faculty of … Economics and Politics at Cambridge for 25 years, between 1955 and 1980. The main purpose of this paper is to explain Reddaway …'s method and his distinct approach to economics. It also briefly reviews his life and times. The words in the title summarise …
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in nature. Moreover, while drawing on the history of economics and the history of physics, I argue that the history of a … the history of economics and economic history. I distinguish my approach from two closely related positions that emphasize … learning from the past for scientific purposes. In my conclusion, I argue that that if economics departments continue to …
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Pluralism in economics appears to be a double-edged sword: we need more than one theory to grasp and explain the entire …
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The aim of this article is to underline that the core paradigm of mainstream economics, the economics’ standard model … economics is customarily taught, i.e., how the workings of a market economy is explained in textbooks and in university …
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Periods of economic and financial stress traditionally give rise to profound changes in economic theory and in the way policy decisions are taken. Motivated by the recent interest in renewing macroeconomics after the global financial crisis, we collected the views of senior central bank staff in...
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Politikberatung ist in einer komplexen Umwelt nicht trivial. Versucht man mit theoretischen Modellen Politikfragen zu beantworten, sind die Modellvoraussetzungen entscheidend, aber oft nicht mit der Realität vereinbar. Der Sachverständigenrat setzt auf eine evidenzbasierte Politikberatung....
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While policy measures affect the welfare of nations, the practice of policy advice is determined by complex rules. Evidence-based scientific policy advice gives weight to hard empirical facts and restrictions. The lecture discusses challenges and conditions for success and provides suggestions...
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