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farmers' behaviour to economic behaviour or rather to self-interested homo economicus. Institutional economics, social … economics and socio-economics are closer to actual human nature, than homo economicus. The further research challenge before …
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of study. These differences can in most cases be attributed to self-selection. A notable exception is economics. Even … though self-selection is also important, training in economics has an unambiguous influence on the political attitudes: by … the time of graduation, economics students are about 6.2 percentage points more likely than they were as freshmen to agree …
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We study the economic structure of the life of Harry Potter and his co-actors as an economic model that governs the social organization of their economic activities. Our goal is to study and understand the internal consistency of the Potterian economic model and explore the relationships between...
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between law and economics. It claims that corruption is to be perceived as a constitutional problem of the economy and that …
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We argue that economics - as the scientific method of analyzing trade-offs - can be helpful (and may even be …
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Gegenstand dieses Aufsatzes sind die fundamentalen Probleme liberaler Argumente in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Anders als dies die Zyklen in der Dogmengeschichte nahelegen, erweist sich die gegenwärtige Krise des Wirtschaftsliberalismus dabei nicht als eine vorübergehende „Rezession“,...
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of study. These differences can in most cases be attributed to self-selection. A notable exception is economics. Even … though self-selection is also important, training in economics has an unambiguous influence on the political attitudes: by … the time of graduation, economics students are about 6.2 percentage points more likely than they were as freshmen to agree …
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Despite the social importance of awards, they have been largely disregarded by academic research in economics. This … paper investigates whether a specific, yet important, award in economics, the John Bates Clark Medal, raises recipients …
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This is the first paper that studies the causal effect of studying economics on subjective well being. Based on a … survey among 918 students of economics and other social sciences, we estimate the effects of studying in the different fields … methods developed in labor and conflict economics. We find a positive relationship between the study of economics and …
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Kenneth Boulding's AEA presidential address argued that economics is a moral science. His view derived from his general … systems theory thinking, his three systems view of human society, and his early contributions to evolutionary economics …. Boulding's argument that economics could not be value-free should be distinguished from other well-known views of economics as …
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