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Do Economists Make Better Lawyers? Undergraduate Degree Field and Lawyer Earnings
Craft, R. Kim; Baker, Joe G. - In: Journal of Economic Education 34 (2003) 3, pp. 263-281
associated with significantly higher earnings in some sectors. Lawyers with undergraduate training in economics earn more than … other lawyers, ceteris paribus, and economics is the only undergraduate field associated with earnings that differ … significantly. The available evidence supports the hypothesis that economics training increases a lawyer’s human capital compared …
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La performativité des sciences économiques
Muniesa, Fabian; Callon, Michel - Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), MINES ParisTech - 2008
Provides some theoretical developments on the topic of the performativity of economics. …
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What does it mean to say that economics is performative?
Callon, Michel - Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), MINES ParisTech - 2006
Discusses the performativity of economics and proposes theoretical directions to study it from a sociological …
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The Ethical Dimension of Economic Choices
Vranceanu, Radu - ESSEC Business School - 2005
In general, capitalist countries display sustained growth, dynamism and innovation, and a high adaptability in response to external shocks. Yet in the last twenty years discontent over the notorious drawbacks of capitalism – corporate frauds, corruption, abuses of market power – has grown...
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A Decade of Editing the European Economic Review
Eckstein, Zvi; Gal-Or, Esther; Gylfason, Thorvaldur; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This story describes the circumstances that led to all five of us starting as editors at the same time, the unexpected things we have found, the unanticipated reactions we have encountered, how we worked as an editorial team, the central role of the editorial office manager, how we managed to...
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Enhancing the food security of the peri-urban and urban poor through improvements to the quality, safety and economics of street-vended foods
Johnson, Paa-Nii T.; Yawson, Robert M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
There has been a continuing growth in urbanisation in developing countries, and governments’ face a major challenge in ensuring that city dwellers are able to procure sufficient food. Street foods are sold in almost every country in the world. In most towns and cities in Ghana, selling of...
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Reality and response: unemployment 1970-2005 in two core journals
Rothschild, Kurt - In: BNL Quarterly Review 59 (2006) 238, pp. 293-305
The Seventies of last century saw a decisive break with the earlier tendencies of the 'golden age'. Particularly important was the return of persistent unemployment. The present paper gives an overview of the effects of this change on subsequent publications in the two core journals American...
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Macroeconomics in develpoing countries
Nayyar, Deepak - In: BNL Quarterly Review 60 (2007) 242, pp. 249-269
laws of economics are universal, the functioning of economies can be markedly different. Therefore, economic theory and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010751997
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German-speaking economists in British exile 1933-1945
Hagemann, Herald - In: Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review 60 (2007) 242, pp. 323-363
's reflections on contemporary Britain, liberty, and economics and sociology are then discussed as an example how exile and …-discipline development economics before, finally, the role of exiled economists as analysts of the German war economy is discussed. …
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Macroeconomics in develpoing countries
Nayyar, Deepak - In: Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review 60 (2007) 242, pp. 249-269
laws of economics are universal, the functioning of economies can be markedly different. Therefore, economic theory and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752018