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Dessí, Roberta; Piccolo, Salvatore - 2015

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Butter, Frank A. G. den; Mosch, Robert - 2003

Transaction costs are a major reason why international trade flows are much smaller than traditional trade theory would … suggest. Trust between trading partners lowers transaction costs and may therefore enhance trade. The empirical analysis of … this paper shows that more trust leads to more trade so that part of the mystery of missing trade can be attributed to the …

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What are axiomatizations good for?

Gilboa, Itzhak; Postlewaite, Andrew; Samuelson, Larry; … - 2018

In light of the interest in axiomatic models of decision making in recent years, one is led to ask, in what ways do axiomatic derivations advance positive economics? If economists are interested in predicting how people behave, without a pretense to change individual decision making, how can...

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The crisis in economic theory : a review essay

Hoover, Kevin D. - 2015

The Great Recession and the financial crisis of 2007-09 prompted ca lls for fundamental reforms of economic theory. The role of theory in economics and in recent economic events is considered in light of two recen t books: the sociologist Richard Swedberg's The Art of Social Theory and the...

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Tony Atkinson and his legacy

Aaberge, Rolf; Bourguignon, François; Brandolini, Andrea; … - 2017

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From casual to causal inference in accounting research : the need for theoretical foundations

Bertomeu, Jeremy; Beyer, Anne; Taylor, Daniel J. - 2017

On December 5th and 6th 2014, the Stanford Graduate School of Business hosted the Causality in the Social Sciences Conference. The conference brought together several distinguished speakers from philosophy, economics, finance, accounting and marketing with the bold mission of debating scientific...

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Can capitalists afford recovery? : economic policy when capital is power

Bikler, Šimšōn; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2013

Economic, financial and social commentators from all directions and persuasion are obsessed with the prospect of recovery. The world remains mired in a deep, prolonged crisis, and the key question seems to be how to get out of it. The purpose of our paper is to ask a very different question that...

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