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Abundant land and strong property rights are conventionally viewed as key factors underpinning US economic development success. This view relies on the "Pristine Myth" of an empty undeveloped land. But the abundant land of North America was already made productive and was the recognized...
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restrictive covenants, but because of extreme violence against them elsewhere. During the Cold War era, Chinese Americans were …. Unfortunately, the model minority myth pitted minority groups against each other. In the Post-Cold War era, the Chinese American …
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Abundant land and strong property rights are conventionally viewed as key factors underpinning US economic development success. This view relies on the "Pristine Myth" of an empty undeveloped land. But the abundant land of North America was already made productive and was the recognized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012543640
In The Invisible Hook, Peter T. Leeson explores “the hidden economics of pirates.” The implications of his work are many, and there are several clear ways in which scholars can build on his insights. First, exploring piracy helps us better understand the rent-seeking societies of...
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Europe is on the threshold of a campaign of imposing more disclosure requirements and costs through company and securities legislation. The following issues led to this European policy: Firstly, the SarbOx adaptation policy was put in place to protect European companies from the SEC's filings...
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Some scholars have argued that the Framers of the U.S. Constitution did not have a common set of views on economics, or that the Constitution, except perhaps in isolated clauses, does not reflect any specific economic views. The principal Framers did, in fact, share a basic set of economic...
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Until the mid-nineteenth century, English and American courts held that indefinite employment contracts could not be terminated at will. The stance was a legacy of strictures found in the Statute of Artificers. But by the turn of the century, English and American law no longer agreed. In...
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The 13-year American episode of the prohibition of alcohol (1919-1933) is so notorious and has been so extensively studied that there would not seem to be much to add. However, very little of this work has been done in a comparative and international perspective. Yet, the prohibition movement...
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.S. merchant marine and shipbuilding and repair capability that can be utilized by the country's military in times of war. This … these civilian assets during times of war has been deeply compromised. This paper finds this maritime decline to be the …
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’s ability to provide such protection ultimately rests on its power to wage war. Governments therefore have tended to devote more … resources to war than to anything else. Indeed, prior to the advent of the modern welfare State, they usually spent more on war … than on all other things combined. Governments were essentially war making institutions that did a few other things on the …
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