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Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience find that fictional works exert strong influence on readers and shape their opinions and worldviews. We study the Potterian economy, which we compare to economic models, to assess how Harry Potter books affect economic literacy. We find that some...
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What role does government play in the provision of public goods? Economists have used the lighthouse as an empirical … to operate profitably and without government enforcement in the collection of payments for lighting services. Second, we … that the provision of lighting services exemplifies not a market failure, but a government failure …
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This paper reconstructs the economic policy debates in Bulgaria during the Great Depression. The goal is twofold. First, it depicts the development of Bulgarian economic thought in the inter-war period and analyzes its intellectual relationships to the evolution of European (especially...
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In this paper I discuss Deirdre McCloskey's argument that “ideas, not capital or institutions,” were the cause of the “great enrichment,” the spectacular growth of the world economy since 1800. I disagree that the ideas of liberty and equality alone caused the great enrichment but agree...
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without switching location) and unbundling government (so that collective goods and services can be provided separately by …
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Keynesian Economics -- Chapter 3 Scarcity and Generation of Resources -- Chapter 4 The Dual Attributes of Government -- Chapter … 5 Regional Government Competition -- Chapter 6 Modern Market Economy -- Chapter 7 Mature Effective Governments … -- Chapter 8 The Choices of Effective Government and Efficient Market Modes -- Chapter 9 Building Up a New Engine for Global …
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economists of our time. The dominant view in economics is that money and government should play only minor roles in economic life … unsettled. The view taken in this important new book is that the omnipresence of uncertainty makes money and government … economists, and embolden them to return money and government to the starring roles in the economic drama that they deserve …
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There are many goals an instructor may wish to accomplish in a course on economic principles. For us the definitive goal is the generation of sensible and active members of a civil society. This is an ambitious goal: it requires that students internalize the economic way of thinking and learn to...
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