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Futurama : business forecasting and the dynamics of capitalism in the interwar period
Lenel, Laetitia - 2018
The recognition of the key importance of economic stability after World War I sparked interest in business forecasting on both sides of the Atlantic. This article explores the creation and the rapid international and domestic dissemination of the Harvard Index of General Business Conditions in...
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Economists and their travels, or the time when JFK sent Douglass North on a mission to Brazil
Boianovsky, Mauro - 2017
The role of traveling as a source of discovery and development of new ideas has been controversial in the history of economics. Despite their protective attitude toward established theory, economists have traveled widely and gained new insights or asked new questions as a result of their...
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Causal pluralism and mixed methods in the analysis of poverty dynamics
Shaffer, Paul - 2018
This paper examines the relationship between poverty dynamics, causal pluralism, and mixed method research approaches. It reviews the nature and significance of the shift from the analysis of poverty status to poverty dynamics, discusses different approaches to causal reasoning and causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913238
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Neither economist nor historian
Weintraub, Eliot Roy - 2023
Founded fifty years ago, the History of Economics Society served in its early years to support scholarship and teaching in the history of economic thought. But the decades long removal of history from economics departments and graduate programs has made the Society’s mission increasingly...
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Die Banalität des Guten : Lektionen der Wirtschaftsethik
Pies, Ingo - 2010
Ethics leads to the thesis of the banality of bad system results and the banality of good system results. The third step …
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Diagnosen der Moderne : Weber, Habermas, Hayek und Luhmann im Vergleich
Pies, Ingo - 2010
and Luhmann primarily address the mirror-inverted problems and dangers of a lifeworld colonialization of the system. …
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The European currency$dan attempt at decoupling : why it has survived up to now and why it is nevertheless doomed : a system-and-environment-theoretic analysis
Schönfelder, Bruno - 2022
the mind of the autor is his most significant contribution to economic theory. He reformed traditional economic system … connection between the economic and the political system. The European currency union abandoned this coupling without offering a … has caused disorientation inside the economic and the political system. This has weakened and endangered their ability to …
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Restating the architecture of property
Smith, Henry E. - 2019
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The economic cycle and the innovation activity of the Polish Industry System
Świadek, Arkadiusz - 2014
activity of the Polish industrial system. Consequently, this was to allow to determine the boundary conditions for the national … occurrence of the counter-cyclical approach to the conducted innovation activity in the national industrial system. The economic …
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