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Innovation and Growth : How Business Contributes to Society
Ahlstrom, David - 2015
about how business contributes to society. Good firms bring innovation to the marketplace, which facilitates their growth … while delivering important benefits to society. Steady economic growth generated through innovation plays a major role in … goods and services to consumers, particularly those at the base of the pyramid. Through innovation and growth firms can do …
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The digital and natural worlds : crisis or challenge?
Loveridge, Denis - In: International journal of foresight and innovation … 11 (2016) 1/2/3, pp. 148-166
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Orthodox Versus Heterodox (Minskyan) Perspectives of Financial Crises : Explosion in the 1990s Versus Implosion in the 2000s
2011
Orthodox and heterodox theories of financial crises are hereby compared from a theoretical viewpoint, with emphasis on their genesis. The former view (represented by the fourth generation models of Paul Krugman) reflects the neoclassical vision whereby turbulence is an exception; the latter...
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Financing Institutions and the Demise of the Sudanese Agricultural Sector
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - 2012
It is not an exaggeration to surmise that agriculture as an economic activity in Sudan is facing demise. The agricultural sector of Sudan has been facing by many problems for the past two decades. In the irrigated schemes, the government who officially owns most of them there were entrenched...
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History of Economics and History of Science : A Comparative Look at Recent Work in Both Fields
Emmett, Ross B. - 2010
One way to evaluate whether the history of economics has moved toward the history of science is to compare recent work in both fields. In order to narrow the comparison in two rapidly expanding publication areas, I decided to examine two corresponding sets of literature in each field: the...
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Ages of Financial Instability
Tonveronachi, Mario - 2020
Starting from the mid-nineteenth century, this paper analyzes two periods of financial instability connected with financial globalization. The first culminates with the 1929 crisis, while the second characterizes the more recent experience starting from the 1970s. The period in between is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842099
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Philosophy and a Scientific Future of the History of Economics
Schliesser, Eric S. - 2006
I argue that economists have reasons internal to the way that evidence works in the sciences to re-discover the importance of the history of their own discipline. For it is a constitutive element of science - here conceived as an ongoing research practice (as opposed to as an explanatory...
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Argentina Sovereign Debt : Excerpts of the Judicial Decisions from 2011 to 2016 – The Trip from 'Game-Changer' to 'No-Precedent' Rulings
Bruno, Eugenio - 2016
In this paper we select the most relevant parts of the applicable rulings to the recent judicial saga of the Argentine sovereign debt in default to show the radical changes took by the United States courts that were in charge of the cases, including the latest case dated December 22, 2016. The...
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The Effect of Economic Freedom on Civil Liberties in the Short Run : Physical Integrity Rights (2000-2011)
Szarka, Robert - 2015
Many writers -- most famously F. A. Hayek and Milton Friedman -- have posited a relationship between, on one hand, economic freedom and, on the other, political freedom and/or civil liberties. Despite sustained interest, this relationship has been the subject of relatively little empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009962
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Ages of financial instability
Tonveronachi, Mario - 2020
Starting from the mid-nineteenth century, this paper analyzes two periods of financial instability connected with financial globalization. The first culminates with the 1929 crisis, while the second characterizes the more recent experience starting from the 1970s. The period in between is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165419