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Ideology and pluralism : a German view
Heise, Arne - 2019
As a social science, economics studies social interactions. What distinguishes it from other social science disciplines is, firstly, its focus on interactions involving the management of scarce resources and, secondly, its conception of itself as generating traceable, verifiable findings that...
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Semantic networks for automatic coding (v2)
Willenborg, Leon - 2021
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The great awakening : new modes of life amidst capitalist ruins
Grear, Anna (ed.); Bollier, David (ed.) - 2020
"As we enter a time of climate catastrophe, worsening inequality, and collapsing market/state systems, can human societies transcend the old, dysfunctional paradigms and build the world anew? There are many signs of hope. In The Great Awakening, twelve cutting-edge activists, scholars, and...
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On the Ontology of Events in Demographies of Organizations
Brons, Lajos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
would also improve the possibility of knowledge exchange between the different fields. Ontology is – among others – the … scientific field that specifies such conceptual frameworks. Besides introducing and explaining this type of ontology, this paper … proposes an ontology of events in the demographies of organizations. Eight basic types of vital events can be distinguished and …
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Methodenstreit 2011? Historical perspective on the contemporary debate over how to reform economics
Spiegler, Peter; Milberg, William - Department of Economics, New School for Social Research - 2011
The general failure of economists to predict the financial crash of 2008 gave rise to a lively and apparently wide-ranging debate over the state of the discipline and the need (if any) for significant reform. But has the actual debate been robust enough to contemplate significant reform, or has...
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Methodology Does Matter: About Implicit Assumptions in Applied Formal Modelling. The case of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models vs Agent-Based Models
Gräbner, Claudius - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This article uses the functional decomposition approach to modeling Mäki (2009b) to discuss the importance of methodological considerations before choosing a modeling framework in applied research. It considers the case of agent-based models and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models to...
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What is sustainability economics?
Baumgärtner, Stefan; Quaas, Martin F. - 2009
matter, ontology, epistemology, and genuine research agenda. …
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The Unbearable Lightness of the Economics-Made-Fun Genre
Spiegler, Peter - Economics Department, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Several commentators have argued that the Economics-Made-Fun (“EMF”) genre contains very little actual economics. As such, it would seem that criticisms of EMF do not apply economics more broadly. In this paper I take a contrary view, arguing that, in fact, at a deep conceptual level, the...
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Improving the Dependability of Destination Recommendations using Information on Social Aspects
Daramola, Olawande J.; Adigun, Mathew O.; Ayo, Charles K.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
implementation of an ontology-enabled Hybrid Destination Recommender System (HDRS) that leverages an ontological description of five …
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AN ONTOLOGY-BASED COMPETENCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR IT COMPANIES
NICULESCU, Cristina; TRAUSAN-MATU, Stefan - Facultatea de Cibernetica, Statistica şi Informatica … - 2009
ontologies for information technology companies. The advantage of using an ontology-based system is the possibility of the … ontology environment. The user can choose to query instances of one type of concept, based on the relations that are displayed … for him/her in a dropping menu. In addition to choosing relations modeled in the ontology, the user may also query …
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