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Information, Motivation und Entscheidung. Studien zum Vergleich von Wirtschaftssystemen

Watrin, Christian (contributor) - 1973

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Struktur- und stabilitätspolitische Probleme in alternativen Wirtschaftssystemen

Watrin, Christian (contributor) - 1974

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Kulturelle Prägungen wirtschaftlicher Institutionen und wirtschaftspolitischer Reformen

Eger, Thomas (contributor) - 2002

Die unterschiedlichen Transformationserfolge in den mittel- und osteuropäischen Ländern sowie in der Volksrepublik China, aber auch die längerfristigen wirtschaftlichen Entwicklungsprobleme in den meisten schwarzafrikanischen und islamischen Ländern lassen sich nur unvollkommen erklären,...

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Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History

Becker, Sascha O.; Wößmann, Ludger - 2007

Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from...

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From economic gains to social losses: How stories shape expectations in the case of German municipal finance

Fastenrath, Florian; Orban, Agnes; Trampusch, Christine - 2017

This paper analyzes how stories shaped treasurers' expectations in municipal swap activities and contributes to the sociological debate on the mechanisms of expectation formation. Employing a deductive variant of process tracing, it synthesizes the literature on expectations in economic decision...

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Capitalism as a system of contingent expectations: Toward a sociological microfoundation of political economy

Beckert, Jens - 2012

Politische Ökonomie und Wirtschaftssoziologie haben sich relativ isoliert voneinander entwickelt. Während die … Politische Ökonomie vornehmlich Makrophänomene untersucht, konzentriert sich die Wirtschaftssoziologie zumeist auf die Ebene der … sozialen Interaktion in der Wirtschaft. Der Beitrag zeigt, dass die Wirtschaftssoziologie Grundlagen für eine Mikrofundierung …

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Protestant Ethic, Status Seeking, and Economic Growth

Rauscher, Michael - 1997

Commodities do not only serve the purpose of satisfying direct needs in the production and con-sumption process. Some of them can also be used to display social status and to affect the position of an individual in society. This paper addresses the question under which circum-stances...

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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...

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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations

Ashrafy, Quamrul; Galorz, Oded - 2011

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Zur Theoriediskussion in der Wirtschaftsethnologie

Riesebrodt, Martin - 1994

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