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Malthus vs. Wordsworth : perspectives on humankind, nature and economy

Becker, Christian; Faber, Malte; Hertel, Kirsten; … - 2004

In this paper the view of humankind and nature upon which the thinking of Malthus is founded will be reflected on and contrasted with the opposed understanding of his contemporary Wordsworth. We show that the economic considerations of both are based decidedly on the premise of these views, and...

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Die unterschiedlichen Sichtweisen von Malthus und Wordsworth auf Mensch, Natur und Wirtschaft : ein Beitrag zu Geschichte und Grundlagen der Ökologischen Ökonomik

Becker, Christian; Faber, Malte; Hertel, Kirsten; … - 2004

Dieser Aufsatz reflektiert das Verständnis von Mensch und Natur, welches dem Denken von Malthus zugrunde liegt und kontrastiert es mit dem völlig anderen Verständnis seines Zeitgenossen William Wordsworth. Wir zeigen, dass die ökonomischen Überlegungen beider entscheidend durch diese...

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The "eternal character" of austerity measures in European crisis policies : evidences from the fiscal compact discourse in Austria

Pühringer, Stephan - 2017

The European Fiscal Compact (FC) entered into force by 1 January, 2013 in 25 EU Member States. With the ratification the signatory countries commit significant parts of their budget to the European Commission and the European Court of Justice, which indicates a shift of power from legislative to...

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Neoliberalism and right-wing populism : conceptual analogies

Pühringer, Stephan; Ötsch, Walter - 2017

The paper compares neoliberal market-fundamentalism and right-wing populism on the basis of its core patterns of thinking and reasoning. Hence we offer an analysis of the work of important founders of market-fundamental economic thinking (particularly von Mises) and an established definition of...

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Lessons from the money mania for money creation

Guo, Yanling - 2018

The first attempt in the human history to consciously create money ended in a collapse in 1720, well-known as the money … mania. This unfortunate start raises doubt on money creation as a whole such that today there are still voices questioning … created money even though it is now indispensible for the world economy. But this misfortune also has the bright side in that …

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When did we begin to spell "heteros*edasticity" correctly?

Paloyo, Alfredo R. - 2011

Using digitized texts scanned by Google and subjected to optical character recognition, I show that heteroskedasticity overtook heteroscedasticity as the preferred spelling in 2001 and has continued to dominate, except for 2005, up to 2008. The latest trends indicate that writers are moving...

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Silvio Gesell : "a strange, unduly neglected" monetary theorist

Ilgmann, Cordelius - 2011

Given the renewed interest in negative interest rates as method for removing the floor to nominal interest rates, this article offers a concise review of Gesell's life, work and its place in the history of economic thought. It provides a brief biographical sketch of Gesell, demonstrating both...

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How economists ignored the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918-20

Boianovsky, Mauro; Erreygers, Guido - 2021

The current COVID-19 pandemic has attracted significant attention from epidemiologists and economists alike. This differs from the 1918-19 Spanish Influenza pandemic, when academic economists hardly paid attention to its economic features, despite its very high mortality toll. We examine the...

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Another road to serfdom

Komlos, John - 2016

Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom is an influential book more than seventy years after its publication. This paper examines his arguments and finds that they come up short in many ways and suggests that we have taken "another road to serfdom". Hayek's mind was completely closed to the...

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Unemployment in a just economy

Komlos, John - 2016

This paper is based on the ideas of political philosopher John Rawls who suggested that a just society is one which would be created behind a "veil of ignorance", that is to say, without knowing where one would end up in the society's distribution of talent and other attributes valued in the...

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