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History re-written : misconceptions of U.S. trade and industrial policy and the influence of neoliberalism
Taylor, Travis K.; Montera, Amanda - In: Národohospodářský obzor : časopis věnovaný … 21 (2021) 1, pp. 3-25
of important institutions to complement free-market competition, and the widespread use of trade protection in support of … documents the misconceptions by examining the theoretical basis and historical record of U.S. industrial and trade policy. We …: the rise of neoliberalism, and the standard economics curriculum. …
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Engineers, innovative capacity and development in the Americas
Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370094
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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F. - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051452
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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F. - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present in come differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052454
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Politics-Business Co-evolution Paths : Workers’ Organization and Capitalist Concentration
Belloc, Marianna - 2012
Most pre-crisis explanations of the various corporate governance systems have considered the separation between ownership and control to be an advantage of the Anglo-American economies. They have also attributed the failure of other countries to achieve these efficient arrangements to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116042
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Beyond the Berle and Means Paradigm : Private Equity and the New Capitalist Order
Diamond, Stephen F. - 2010
The rise of private equity funds represents a new stage in capitalism. These funds combine financial resources and capital markets expertise with detailed operational knowledge of the operations of takeover targets to maximize the creation and expropriation of value on behalf of investors. Their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148403
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East Asian Financial and Economic Development
Morck, Randall - 2017
Japan, an isolated, backward country in the 1860s, industrialized rapidly to become a major industrial power by the 1930s. South Korea, among the world's poorest countries in the 1960s, joined the ranks of First World economies in little over a single generation. China now seems poised to follow...
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Business History > Piketty
Wright, Robert E. - 2015
Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century has attracted more attention than it perhaps deserves given that its main empirical claim, that wealth inequality is bound to occur in "capitalist" economies because the rate of return r is greater than the rate of economic growth g (r g), is not rigorously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014137599
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The Transplantation of the Legal Discourse on Corporate Personality Theories : From German Codification to British Political Pluralism and American Big Business
Harris, Ron - 2007
the discourse in Britain and the US in four contexts: political theory, trade unions, city governance and business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014026196
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Dissecting the Sinews of Power : International Trade and the Rise of Britain's Fiscal-Military State, 1689-1823
Dal Bó, Ernesto; Hutková, Karolina; Leucht, Lukas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We evaluate the role of taxes on trade in the development of imperial Britain's fiscal-military state. Influential work …
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