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Sabotage from Abroad? The Economic Impact of U.S. Interference in Chile 1970-73

Walther, E. James - 2021

In 1973, Augusto Pinochet led a US-backed coup against Salvador Allende, Chile's democratically elected president. Pinochet's supporters argued that the coup was the only way to save the country amid statism and socioeconomic breakdown. But how much was Allende to blame for the crisis that...

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The world our grandchildren will inherit : the rights revolution and beyond

Acemoglu, Daron - 2012

Following on Keynes's Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren, this paper develops conjectures about the world we will leave to our grandchildren. It starts by outlining the 10 most important trends that have defined our economic, social, and political lives over the last 100 years. It then...

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New imperialism or new capitalism?

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Over the past century, the institution of capital and the process of its accumulation have been fundamentally transformed. By contrast, the theories that explain this institution and process have remained largely unchanged. The purpose of this paper is to address this mismatch. Using a broad...

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Inflation as restructuring. A theoretical and empirical account of the U.S. experience

Nitzan, Jonathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992

and institutions as given for the purpose of analysis, we argue that inflation could be understood only in terms of …

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The scientist and the church

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...

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Growth of government and the politics of fiscal policy

Ghate, Chetan; Zak, Paul J. - 2000 - This version April 14, 2000

in 1992. To examine the dynamics of the growth and subsequent reduction in government spending, we present a dynamic … GDP - but eventually diverge from output due to the growth of the welfare state. After government expenditures become … large, we identify an endogenous threshold on the economy's growth path where it is optimal for politicians to shrink the …

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The Money War : An Interpretation of Democracy, Depreciation, and Taxes in the U.S. Civil War

Ron, Ariel; Valeonti, Sofia - 2021

-term development of democratic governing institutions. Higher levels of democracy in the North, as compared to the slaveholding South …

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Building Democracy in Quicksand : Altruism, Empire and the United States

Faguet, Jean-Paul - 2004

the inherent difficulty of planting democracy in so inhospitable a social environment as Iraq's. This paper examines the … society in making democracy work …

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Does it matter where you came from? : ancestry composition and economic performance of US counties, 1850 - 2010

Fulford, Scott L.; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2015

-of-origin composition of a county matters. Moreover, the culture, institutions, and human capital that the immigrant groups brought with …

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Productiivity Convergence among OECD Countries: The Postwar Experience

Wolff, Edward N. - In: International Productivity Monitor 1 (2000) Fall, pp. 17-22

.S. productivity levels during the postwar period and finds strong evidence for this phenomenon up to 1990, with rapid growth in … the 1990s, reflecting slower growth in OECD countries, a diminishing of the forces behind the convergence process given …

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