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Bargaining over Taxes and Entitlements in the Era of Unequal Growth

Azzimonti, Marina; Karpuska, Laura; Mihalache, Gabriel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Entitlement programs have become an increasing component of total government spending in the US over the last six decades. To some observers, this growth of the welfare state is excessive and unwarranted. To others, it is a welcome counter-acting force to the rapid increase in income inequality....

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Simplicity and Explanation in the Economic Theory (Sencillez y Explicación en la Teoría Económica) (Spanish)

Estrada, Fernando - 2010

The present paper, following the philosophical work of Robert Nozick, intends to develop the approach of simplicity in the economic investigation. This purpose contributes to structure a heuristic for projects of investigation that can serve like mark of discussion of grade projects in the...

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Contagion through learning

Steiner, Jakub; Stewart, Colin - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 3 (2008) 4, pp. 431-458

We study learning in a large class of complete information normal form games. Players continually face new strategic situations and must form beliefs by extrapolation from similar past situations. We characterize the long-run outcomes of learning in terms of iterated dominance in a related...

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Economics : an emerging small world?

Goyal, Sanjeev; Leij, Marco van der; Moraga-González, … - 2004

component - covering only 15% of the population. However, by the 1990's economics was much more integrated, with the giant …, leading us to conclude that economics is an emerging small world. A crucial stable feature of the network over this period is … themselves). The world of economics is thus a collection of inter-linked stars. We also find that a growth in the average number …

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Economics : an emerging small world?

Goyal, Sanjeev; Leij, Marco van der; Moraga-González, … - 2004

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Economics: An Emerging Small World?

Goyal, Sanjeev; van der Leij, Marco; Moraga-Gonzàlez, … - 2004

component { covering only 15% of the population. However, by the 1990's economics was much more integrated, with the giant …, leading us to conclude that economics is an emerging small world. A crucial stable feature of the network over this period is … themselves). The world of economics is thus a collection of inter-linked stars. We also find that a growth in the average number …

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