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Wolff, Edward N.; Zacharias, Ajit - 2007

Existing empirical schemas of class structure do not specify the capitalist class in an adequate manner. We propose a schema in which the specification of capitalist households is based on wealth thresholds. Individuals in noncapitalist households are assigned class locations based on their...

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The Ordonomic Approach to Business Ethics

Pies, Ingo - 2017

“Ordonomics” is a research program that has been developed at the Chair of Economic Ethics at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. It holds that business actors (persons and organizations) can employ morality as a “factor of production”, and that business ethics can be based on a...

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Testing and Revising the Human Development Sequence Theory using Agent-Based Simulation and Data

Spaiser, Viktoria; Sumpter, David - 2016

Agent-based modeling is a promising tool for studying emergent macro-phenomena from micro-level mechanisms. We propose a methodology for converting theories about social change into mathematical agent-based models. These models are then analyzed to identify specific relationships between macro...

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The Nature of Excessive Behavior (ISRAF) in the Islamic Economic Framework

2019

Objective – The objective of this paper is to unfold the nature of excessive behavior in the Islamic economics … analyze content analysis.Findings – The nature of excessive behavior is condemned by Islam and is fully agreed upon by Muslim ….Novelty – This study clarifies the terminology and nature of excessive behavior, which is unclear in previous studies conducted by …

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The Draw Index : A Measure of Competition for Winner-Take-All Elections

Rose, Douglas - 2014

Winner's percentage, a common measure of electoral competition in winner-take-all elections, measures the shift in vote shares required to produce changes in election outcome. Thus, winner's percentage of the vote cast is a logical measure of winner-take-all competition. It treats equally shifts...

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Auguste Comte & Philosophy of History

Nyarko, John Abbam - 2023

The evolution of history as an academic discipline began in the 19th century. The role of the German historians in making the discipline cannot be underestimated as Leopold von Ranke is deemed the ‘father of history’. The impeccable role of the father of Sociology, Auguste Comte can also not...

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Class structure and economic inequality

Wolff, Edward N. (contributor); Zacharias, Ajit (contributor) - 2007

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From bioeconomics to bioeconopysis in the context of (bio)diversity and modern morality

Tei, Yuichi; Săvoiu, Gheorghe - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 20 (2018) 49, pp. 754-770

The article develops a complex interdisciplinary paradigm, or rather a multiparadigm of bioeconomics, exemplifying the necessary role and the broader horizon of multidisciplinarity through bioeconophysics, in the context of (bio)diversity and modern morality, in a logically investigative and...

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When Debit=Credit, The Balance Constraint in Bookkeeping, Its Causes and Consequences for Accounting

Renes, Sander - 2020

This paper studies the balance constraint (debit=credit) in bookkeeping, its causes and its consequences for accounting. Balance in the ledger is shown to: 1) imply balance in journal entries and vice versa; 2) link the value definitions in the earnings statement and balance sheet; 3) have direct...

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Cognitive bias mitigation : how to make decision-making rational?

Kucera, Tomas - 2020

Cognitive biases distort judgement and adversely impact decision-making, which results in economic inefficiencies. Initial attempts to mitigate these biases met with little success. However, recent studies which used computer games and educational videos to train people to avoid biases (Clegg et...

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