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This paper explores the possible evolution of UK electricity demand as we move along three potential transition … pathways to a low carbon economy in 2050. The shift away from fossil fuels through the electrification of demand is discussed … in the way people and institutions may use energy along each of the pathways are also considered and provide a rationale …
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The concept of bioeconomy has increasingly gained importance. The transition towards a bioeconomy is a new challenge … for the sustainable use of soils. In the development of transition strategies, the perspectives of actors need to be … functions are ful-filled by actors in the transition towards a bioeconomy. Actors relevant for soil policy have different …
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how transition and integration interact in a potential unification process based on the World Bank Revised Minimum …
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The concept of bioeconomy has increasingly gained importance. The transition towards a bioeconomy is a new challenge … for the sustainable use of soils. In the development of transition strategies, the perspectives of actors need to be … functions are ful-filled by actors in the transition towards a bioeconomy. Actors relevant for soil policy have different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455440
This paper uses semi-parametric econometric techniques to investigate the relationship between basic skills and earning in three post-communist countries: the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovenia using the IALS dataset. While the large increases in the returns to education in the new market...
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The paper deals with the connection between politically induced catch-up development, cultural and intellectual traditions and economic order in Germany and Russia. It is argued that in the history of both countries we encounter significant structural parallels, including the totalitarian...
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transition processes in CE & EE can tell us much about the relation between path dependent and politically implemented … capitalism. In our opinion, to understand the differences in performance between the transition countries, it is necessary to …
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In recent years, institutional and evolutionary economists have become increasingly aware that ideas play an important role in economic development. In the current literature, the problem is usually elaborated upon in purely theoretical terms. In the present paper it is argued that ideas are...
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The present study is a continuation of an earlier paper by the same author dealing with the economic debates in the Soviet Union between 1987 and 1991 (HWWA Discussion Paper 324; Europe-Asia Studies vol. 58, no. 2). After there had been a paradigm shift in Russian economics around 1990, in the...
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The increasing gap between the transition countries with regard to both their economic and political performance cannot … empirical evidence of the significance of cultural factors in transition processes by testing the degree to which norms of …
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