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unique equilibrium where legal enforcement remains weak and individual values discourage cooperation. …
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determine whether a network is consistent with trade and cooperation between every buyer and seller that are connected. We show … that three network features reduce the minimal discount factor necessary for sustaining cooperation: moderate competition …
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How and why does distant political and economic history shape the functioning of current institutions? This paper … (as opposed to limited) morality are widespread in societies that were ruled by non-despotic political institutions in the … distant past. Second, well functioning institutions are often observed in countries or regions where individual values are …
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This elaboration starts by deciphering modern science as a social subsystem being loosely coupled to the rest of society (section 2.1). Additionally, the way in which modern (monistic) economics was generated within this subsystem will be sketched (section 2.2). This will be contrasted with the...
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questions: Are there major productivity differences between graduates from American and European institutions? If so, how … graduates placed at American institutions, in particular top ones, are likely to publish more quality-adjusted articles than …
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questions: Are there major productivity differences between graduates from American and European institutions? If so, how … graduates placed at American institutions, in particular top ones, are likely to publish more quality-adjusted articles than …
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This note reviews consumers’ preference orderings in economics and shows that irrationality is a poor explanation for apparent violations of some axioms of order. Apparent violations seem to be better explained by the fact that consum-ers’ utility functions, if they exist at all, might not...
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