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Social interaction and economic organization: Toward an integrative microeconomic model

Callois, Jean-Marc - In: Economics Letters 121 (2013) 1, pp. 98-100

In the context of increasingly complex economies, with information more and more complicated to handle, social interaction may allow spontaneous co-operation and be more efficient than market or state regulations to overcome co-ordination and information problems. This article provides a...

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Il pareggio di bilancio: La testimonianza di Luigi Einaudi: tra predica e libertà

Silvestri, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Italian Abstract: L’articolo intende mostrare l’esistenza di un filo conduttore che attraversa la riflessione einaudiana sul pareggio di bilancio, e che va da "Le entrate pubbliche nello stato sabaudo" (1907) sino ad arrivare a "L'interpretazione dell’articolo 81 della Costituzione"...

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Social diversity: a look at tourism

Giusti, Antonio; Viviani, Alessandro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper addresses the issue of social diversity, with reference to the phenomenon of tourism in Italy. Social inequality influences numerous socio-economic phenomena: tourism has been scarcely examined under this perspective. Tourism has significant effects at social level: both on travellers...

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L'esprit du capitalisme capital étranger et développement

Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We consider a model of open economy with a culture of spirit of capitalism. As a first step, we show that the entry of foreign capital flows can support an endogenous economic growth of the host country. Further, our model shows a positive correlation between the entry of foreign direct...

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Thermodynamic Isolation and the New World Order

Pogany, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The general stream of economic thinking is thoroughly a-physical and a-historic. This direction is becoming increasingly absurd as the nexus between the human biomass and its ecological constraints ripens. Economics will eventually have to absorb apodictically that regardless of...

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The Use of Economic Valuation in Environmental Policy: Providing Research Support for the Implementation of Eu Water Policy Under Aquastress

Koundouri, Phoebe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This book aims to show that economics in general and non market valuation methods in particular, together with participatory and engineering tools, can facilitate the design and implementation of the different European policies in relation to mitigation of water stress. The results presented in...

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Philosophie et science économiques : leur contribution respective aux discours politiques

Yefimov, Vladimir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

institution of this science)”) of the author to the French heterodox economists (post-Keynesians, Marxists, regulationists …, conventionalists, socio-economists) which has the aim to convince them to adopt the constructivist institutionalist methodology in … democracy there is no demand by the public for non-deviated inquiry and no large-scale supply of research by economists, as they …

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Communitarianism, Oppositional Cultures, and Human Capital Contagion: Theory and Evidence from Formal versus Koranic Education

Dev, Pritha; Mberu, Blessing; Pongou, Roland - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We analyze the implications of communitarianism-the tendency of people to organize into separate culturally homogeneous groups-for individual and group inequality in human capital accumulation. We propose a non-cooperative social interactions model where each individual decides how much time to...

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The Role of Social Factors in Explaining Crime

Hamzah, Siti Nur Zahara; Lau, Evan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Utilizing Malaysia data from 1973 to 2008, the study reveals that crime can be influenced by population, fertility, unemployment, and GDP in either the long-run or short-run period. This study also further analysed beyond sample estimations of the variables involved and found that although...

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Economic Growth in the Potterian Economy

Snir, Avichai; Levy, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

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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