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Towards Sustainability : The Relationship between Foreign Direct Investment, Economic Freedom and Inclusive Green Growth
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Figari, Francesco; Ojong, Nathanael - 2023
This study contributes to the environmental and socioeconomic sustainability literature by examining three important issues. First, the study examines the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic freedom on inclusive green growth (IGG) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Second, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014351085
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Towards sustainability : the relationship between foreign direct investment, economic freedom and inclusive green growth
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Figari, Francesco; Ojong, Nathanael - 2023
This study contributes to the environmental and socioeconomic sustainability literature by examining three important issues. First, the study examines the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic freedom on inclusive green growth (IGG) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Second, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014265898
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The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on government- and market-attitudes
Goff, Sandra; Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa S.; Reents, Alex - 2020
We study the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on college students' government- and market-attitudes using within-subject comparisons of survey responses elicited before and after the onset of the pandemic. We find that support for markets significantly declines after the onset of the pandemic, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271407
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The Constitutional Approach to Money : Monetary Design and the Production of the Modern World
Desan, Christine A. - 2016
In the modern lexicon, money is pure instrumentality, a colorless medium that transparently expresses real value. Contrary to that trope, however, we can get “inside” money: we can reconnoiter it as a structure entailing value that is engineered by certain societies. Taking a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000178
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The Value of Bitcoin in the Year 2141 (and Beyond!)
Hendrickson, Joshua R.; Luther, William J. - 2021
The emergence of bitcoin poses an important question for monetary theorists: can bitcoin compete with or even replace existing fiat monies? To answer this question, one must be able to determine what gives intrinsically useless monies their value, what determines the coexistence of alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227942
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Is Corruption Contagious? An Econometric Analysis
Attila, Joseph - 2008
development (GDP per capita) seems to be the most important. Foreign aid and trade openness show less clear results. Noneconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012723025
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Economic Freedom & Inequality : A Survey of the Empirical Literature
Bennett, Daniel L. - 2023
While economic freedom has been linked to positive outcomes such as economic growth and well-being, studies examining its relationship with income inequality have produced inconsistent results. The chapter reviews empirical research published in peer-reviewed journals indexed in the Social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014350075
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The Impact of Economic Inequality on Economic Freedom
Murphy, Ryan - 2015
This paper tests the hypothesis that the presence of economic inequality may lead to erosions of economic freedom. Using Economic Freedom of the World as a measure of free economic institutions, it finds that a one standard deviation increase in the gini coefficient reduces the presence of free...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033572
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The false promise and bitter fruit of Neoliberalism
Palley, Thomas I. - 2022
Neoliberalism is a political economic philosophy that consists of two claims, one economic and the other political. The … paper argues both claims are problematic. The evidence from the forty-year experiment that began in 1980 shows Neoliberalism … be held by true opponents of Neoliberalism. Those liberal elites obstruct the politics needed to reverse the deep causes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014327614
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Does Immigration Impact Economic Freedom?
Clark, J. R.; Lawson, Robert; Nowrasteh, Alex; Powell, … - 2014
The economics literature generally finds a positive, but small, gain in income to native‐born populations from immigrants and potentially large gains in world incomes. But immigrants can also impact a recipient nation’s institutions. A growing empirical literature supports the importance of...
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