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The Laspeyres-Paradox: tax overshifting in nineteenth century Prussia

Spoerer, Mark - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 2 (2008) 3, pp. 143-171

Following the seminal work of the late nineteenth century economist Etienne Laspeyres I analyse the incidence of the Prussian milling and slaughter tax shortly before its repeal in 1875. A comparison of flour prices in cities which levied this tax with those that did not reveals unusually strong...

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Mill on Slavery, Property Rights and Paternalism

Salazar, Mauricio Pérez - UNIVERSIDAD EXTERNADO DE COLOMBIA - 2006

J. S. Mill's statement that "an engagement by which a person should sell himself, or allow himself to be sold, as a slave would be null and void; neither enforced by law nor by opinion" has sparked a lively debate on his supposed paternalism and on its consistency with his views on individual...

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Economics and happiness - an overview

Štika, Pavel - In: Politická ekonomie 2009 (2009) 2, pp. 250-262

In this paper I am trying to provide the reader with a brief overview of contemporary discussion about recently frequently mentioned topic of economics and happiness. In the last few years the number of publications related to happiness from the economic perspective growth exponentially. As the...

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The schumpeterian paradox

MUNIER, Francis - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), … - 1999

.A. Schumpeter is made conspicuous by a contradiction on the question of the relation between the size of the companies and their …

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EL SISTEMA DE LA SIMPATÍA DE ADAM SMITH: UNA ALTERNATIVA LIBERAL OLVIDADA POR JOHN RAWLS

Hurtado, Jimena - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2006

John Rawls, uno de los más influyentes filósofos contemporáneos, nos hizo volver a pensar en términos de justicia. Desde el comienzo del desarrollo de su teoría, Rawls intentó establecer un diálogo con los economistas porque creía que tenían un enorme ascendiente sobre nuestros...

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Economic Agent in the Hegelian Philosophy of Right

EGE, Ragip - In: Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political … (2005) 49, pp. 87-102

In this paper our concern is to analyse the historical and logical conditions of possibility of economic agent as a modern figure of the individual. In his Philosophy of Right Hegel shows that if modern individual is able to act as an economic agent, as a Bürger, in the civil society the reason...

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Alexis de Tocqueville's idea of association

FERRATON, Cyrille - In: Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political … (2004) 46, pp. 45-65

A. de Tocqueville's writings deal largely with the idea of association. This idea is important in the two volumes of the Democracy in America, published respectively in 1835 and 1840, and it is also the same for the texts (of the period) that A. de Tocqueville dedicates to the pauperism. The...

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Classical Political Economy through the Sieve of Dialectic Reason: the Hegelian Rereading

BROCHARD, Delphine - In: Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political … (2002) 43, pp. 7-30

This article examines Hegel's analysis of the economic system in his mature philosophical work, the Philosophy of Right. It argues that this analysis is not grounded on the adoption and development of classic economic theses but on their dialectic reinterpretation. This particular logic of...

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Claude-Henri de Saint-Simon, Industrialism and Bankers

YONNET, Franck - In: Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political … (2004) 46, pp. 147-174

Saint-Simon's political scheme is structured by the following problematic: banking organises society. But banking functions are different in the former "metaphysical and feudal system" and in the new "scientific and industrial system". This change is a clue which enables to redefme Saint-Simon's...

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Lessons from the money mania for money creation

Guo, Yanling - 2018

The first attempt in the human history to consciously create money ended in a collapse in 1720, well-known as the money … mania. This unfortunate start raises doubt on money creation as a whole such that today there are still voices questioning … created money even though it is now indispensible for the world economy. But this misfortune also has the bright side in that …

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