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Theory of economy as the original cause of the world crisis
Jakóbik, Witold - In: Contemporary economics 5 (2011) 2, pp. 4-15
A growing debate around the active role played by the neoliberal ideology and the economy connected with it in the crisis development. The polarisation of researchers in this area is quite significant: starting from the negation of this role to its complete affirmation. This analysis is aimed at...
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The benefits of being economics professor A (and not Z)
Praag, Mirjam van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2007
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers_new, which is the convention in theeconomics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose lastname initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been afirst author more...
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Are men and women-economists evenly distributed across research fields? : some new empirical evidence
Dolado, Juan J. Dolado; Felgueroso, Florentino; … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012) 3, pp. 367-393
This paper analyzes the gender distribution of research fields in economics based on a new dataset of almost 1,900 researchers affiliated to top-50 economics departments in 2005, as ranked by Econphd.net website. We document that women are unevenly distributed across fields and test some...
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The golden age of Nobel economists
Dalen, Hendrik P. van - 1997
Nobel laureates in economics make their most important and creative contributionsbetween the ages of 29 and 38. The average creative age of Nobel economists is slightly belowthat of laureates in physics, and considerably younger than that of laureates in chemistry andmedicine/physiology. The...
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The choice of valuation techniques in practice : education versus profession
Mukhlynina, Lilia; Nyborg, Kjell G. - 2016
We use a survey approach to learn about valuation professionals' choices and implementations of valuation techniques in practice. The survey design allows us to control for a respondent's professional subgroup (e.g., consulting), education, experience, and valuation purpose characteristics. We...
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Sociology of sociology : strengthening the role of social sciences as a new priority of climate and sustainability policy
Strzałkowski, Andrzej - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 16 (2016) 3, pp. 453-468
of sociology, psychology or political sciences can be extremely helpful in designing, adopting, implementing and … examples, what social sciences, especially sociology and psychology can contribute to climate and sustainability discourse, as … social psychology or constructivist version of sociology of knowledge, then sociology could became object of its own research …
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Age, cohort and co-authorship
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015
The previously documented trend toward more co- and multi-authored research in economics is partly (perhaps 20 percent) due to different research styles of scholars in different birth cohorts (of different ages). Most of the trend reflects profession-wide changes in research style. Older...
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Was lesen und schätzen Ökonomen im Jahr 2011?
Bräuninger, Michael; Haucap, Justus; Muck, Johannes - 2011
In diesem Aufsatz stellen wir die Ergebnisse einer Umfrage unter den Mitgliedern des Vereins für Socialpolitik vor, welche die Bewertung der Relevanz und Reputation ökonomischer Fachzeitschriften zum Ziel hatte. Bei der Bewertung der Relevanz werden internationale englischsprachige...
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Book Review to Muhammad Yunus - Creating a World Without Poverty (2008)
Reggiani, Tommaso - 2011
In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe, bringing with them enormous potential for positive change. But traditional capitalism cannot solve problems like inequality and poverty, because it is hampered by a narrow view of human nature in which people are one-dimensional beings...
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Impact of Per Capita Income on Exchange Rate with Regression Tool
Khan, Muhammad Asim - 2010
In this article we test the relationship between per capita income differential and exchange rate differential between two different economic background countries. Recent researches have been done on the testing of international Fisher effect, Interest rate, GDP growth rate and purchasing power...
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