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Economic Freedom & Inequality : A Survey of the Empirical Literature

Bennett, Daniel L. - 2023

While economic freedom has been linked to positive outcomes such as economic growth and well-being, studies examining its relationship with income inequality have produced inconsistent results. The chapter reviews empirical research published in peer-reviewed journals indexed in the Social...

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Automobile sector in India at the current juncture : crisis and prospects

Jha, Praveen K.; Mishra, Preksha; Singh, Kamya - 2023

, policymakers and Trade Unions. The impact of the crisis, the subsequent 'recovery' and the future prospects of the sector have been …

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New imperialism or new capitalism?

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Over the past century, the institution of capital and the process of its accumulation have been fundamentally transformed. By contrast, the theories that explain this institution and process have remained largely unchanged. The purpose of this paper is to address this mismatch. Using a broad...

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"The Global Financial Crisis and a New Capitalism?"

Bresser-Pereira, Luiz Carlos - Levy Economics Institute - 2010

fictitious financial wealth, that began in the 1980s; and (2) the hegemony of a reactionary ideology-namely, neoliberalism …

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Animal Bodies, Colonial Subjects: (Re)Locating Animality in Decolonial Thought

Belcourt, Billy-Ray - In: Societies 5 (2014) 1, pp. 1-11

In this paper, I argue that animal domestication, speciesism, and other modern human-animal interactions in North America are possible because of and through the erasure of Indigenous bodies and the emptying of Indigenous lands for settler-colonial expansion. That is, we cannot address animal...

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Capital in the Twenty First Century : A Review Essay

Field, Alexander J. - 2014

The empirical work in Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty First Century is simply breathtaking, but his use of the terms capital and marketable wealth interchangeably leads us to consider the implications of distinguishing between them, and calls our attention to important issues that deserve...

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Updated Liberalism vs. Neo-Liberalism : Policy Paradigms and the Structural Evolution of Western Industrial Economies after W.W. Ii

Vercelli, Alessandro - 2008

markets and therefore aims at their active regulation, and neo-liberalism that is based on market fundamentalism and aims at … hegemonic in the 1950s and 1960s and started to decline in the 1970s, while neo-liberalism gathered momentum in the 1970s and … became hegemonic in the 1980s and 1990s. This historical examination suggests that neo-liberalism is inconsistent not only …

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Economy and economics: the twin crises

Vercelli, Alessandro - Dipartimento di Politica Economica, Finanza e Sviluppo … - 2010

financial crisis that has heavily affected the real economy makes clear that we need a major redirection of macroeconomic theory … economy and the crisis of macroeconomics is analyzed in the light of similar preceding episodes in the 20th century: the Great …

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The myth of “neutrality” and the rhetoric of “stability”: macroeconomic policy in democratic South Africa

Isaacs, Gilad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

restructuring of the South African economy is carefully examined. This runs contrary to the orthodox assertion that macroeconomic … reoriented the economy away from its traditional reliance on minerals and energy, mineral-related sectors and finance; rather it …, played a leading role in facilitating particular forms of restructuring that, rather than reorienting the economy towards the …

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The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression

Burgin, Angus - Harvard University Press

Just as today’s observers struggle to justify the workings of the free market in the wake of a global economic crisis, an earlier generation of economists revisited their worldviews following the Great Depression. The Great Persuasion is an intellectual history of that project. Angus Burgin...

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