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Abstract Many people consider Adam Smith the first economist to describe the functioning of capitalism. In fact, Smith … must be considered less the discoverer of capitalism, but rather as its inventor. The economic laws Smith formulated are …
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Abstract Die aktuelle Wirtschaftskrise hat den deutschen Maschinen- und Anlagenbau aus einer extremen Boomphase heraus …- und Anlagenbaus in der aktuellen Wirtschaftskrise verfolgen.  …
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Abstract Beschäftigte in Tätigkeiten, für die keine Berufsausbildung erforderlich ist (einfache Arbeit), gelten schon seit längerem als problematische Personengruppe des Arbeitsmarkts. Anhand der Daten des IAB-Betriebspanels setzt sich dieser Beitrag mit der Entwicklung der einfachen Arbeit...
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The title is intentionally facetious, rhetorical and to be taken cum grano salis. For certain ones prone to confusing fact with fancy, the events in the USSR of 1989 and the appearance of John Paul II’s Centesimus Annus on the heels thereof respectively sounded the death‐knell for Marx’s...
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Abstract We study attitudes to legality and the rule of law in Russia through analysis of interviews with legal and … ensure that the command economy did not return, has left Russia with a dysfunctional public order, under which the ‘normality …
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Purpose – The purpose is to show how actors' relative power or parity is dynamically instanced in discrete speech behaviors that are exchanged throughout everyday organizational interaction. Design/methodology/approach – Politeness theory, rooted in the dramaturgical theories of Erving...
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Purpose – This paper aims at summing up the main criticisms concerning quality management (QM) in order to address them through objective arguments or extant research. Since its diffusion in the Occident in the 70s, QM gained as much approvals as criticisms. Therefore, with 40 years distance,...
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appreciation of this work, and considers how Kirzner’s insights might feature in a defense of Capitalism in the post- Socialist …
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Protestantism and the emergence of capitalism persists in the popuar imagination as well as the academy. This article illustrates … before the Reformation, but also the manner in which capitalism’s development in the post-reformation era contradicts Weber … institutional prerequisites of post- Reformation capitalism, and the manner in which post-Reformation political and religious …
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expanding capitalism, empire, and white supremacy. In the school systems set up around the world, the term “civilization” was …
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