Showing 1 - 10 of 73
This empirical study analyzes the cultural basis of the United States market response to imported Spanish products that seem to violate strongly-held cultural taboos. Survey responses were obtained from students in two contrasting majors, Art and Business, in two distinct cities and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015192080
This empirical study investigates American market responses to a Spanish product that is strongly culture-laden and may violate cultural taboos. Surveys were conducted in two contrasting US universities in Arkansas and California. Contrasting student majors were also chosen: Art and Business....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015192212
Economics has always had a difficult relationship with literature. Although early economists such as Adam Smith adopted a literary approach, pressures soon emerged to develop formal theory imitating natural sciences. A key aim was to attain scientific status and avoid comparison with literary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013369618
Auf der Basis einer aktuellen empirischen Untersuchung wird das 9-Euro-Ticket, das in den Monaten Juni, Juli und August 2022 in Deutschland genutzt werden konnte, bewertet. Trotz erheblicher Vorbehalte gegenüber dem Ticket vor dessen Einführung und trotz der teilweisen Überforderung des...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013468396
Der Sonderfonds des Bundes für Kulturveranstaltungen ist das zentrale Instrument zur Unterstützung der Kultur- und Veranstaltungsbranche und dabei eines von mehreren Maßnahmen, die von Bund und Ländern zur Bewältigung der Coronapandemie aufgelegt wurden. Der Sonderfonds ist ein...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014001249
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014001281
The paper investigates the question whether constitutions are a proxy for institutional quality. It provides a discussion of institutions and states that constitutions are an example of a formal institution. As any other formal institution, constitutions are also influenced by countries'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014001546
This paper aims to show that economic theory has become ‘desocialised’ and separated from social theory through the adoption of individualistic methods and neglect of social relations and structures. A historical overview traces how the social content of economic theory has diminished,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278137
Academic treatments of distributive justice normally adopt a static approach centred on resource allocation among a set of individual agents. The resulting models, expressed in mathematical language, make no allowance for culture, as they never engage with the society’s way of life or the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290599
"The market for ideas" is placed by scholars and commoners between literary metaphors and catchy paraphrases. However, economics and political science, in addition to the sciences of cognition and communication, have at least something to say about the concept. The marketplaces of ideas entail a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014463424