El Panel Municipal del CEDE es una iniciativa del Centro de Estudios sobre Desarrollo Económico, por consolidar en una sola base de datos, información a nivel municipal. Este panel presenta información sobre características generales de los municipios, variables fiscales, de conflicto y...

The median voter, or the ideological position of the electoral center, has fi gured widely across literatures. This paper introduces a median voter data set that allows for comparison across time and across countries. The data set employs the statistics provided by the Comparative Manifesto...

In Capital in 21st century, Thomas Piketty criticizes Marxian theory and the law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall in the long term. His main argument, asserted by other authors since decades, is related to the capacity of increases in productivity to counterweight the tendency. The...

In diesem Beitrag wird das kontrafaktische Szenario betrachtet, dass die ganze Erde einen globalen Bundesstaat nach dem Vorbild der Bundesrepublik Deutschland bilden würde, in dem das Grundgesetz analog für alle Menschen und Länder Geltung hätte. Grundgesetz und Organisation der...

The traditional relationship of patronage and clientship between the landlords and the growing commercial class in Bida and in other Nigerian Emirates - firmly established during the 19th century - left indelible marks which influenced the pattern of social communication between these two...

The study attempts to highlight the interrelation between three central points in the ongoing debate on the political economy of development: viability, surplus, and class-formation. A case study of the development of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better...

Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience find that fictional works exert strong influence on readers and shape their opinions and worldviews. We study the Potterian economy, which we compare to economic models, to assess how Harry Potter books affect economic literacy. We find that some...