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The Financial and Economic Crisis and the Aberrance of Economics
Polleit, Thorsten - In: Credit and Capital Markets 46 (2013) 2, pp. 233-246
Positivism-empiricism-falsificationism has become the ‘state-of-the-art’ methodology of economics. In this article it …
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Will the Financial Crisis Become a Milestone in the Development of Methodology of Economics?
Kovanda, Lukáš - In: Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2014 (2014) 4, pp. 16-29
It has been widely accepted that philosophers of science wrote a “swansong” for positivism during the second half of …
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Poverty: An Existential-Humanist Perspective
Dixon, John - In: Poverty & Public Policy 2 (2010) 4, pp. 6-6
. The contribution of existential humanism to the poverty discourse is, essentially, the proposition that everyone needs the …
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Afterlives : testimonies of Irish Catholic mothers on infant death and the fate of the unbaptised
Kennedy, Liam - 2019
Children growing up in the Ireland of the 1950s will have a clear remembrance of a metaphysical space or place known as Limbo. For Catholics, though not Irish Protestants, this formed part of a spiritual cosmos which viewed Heaven and Hell as opposite poles, with Purgatory and Limbo occupying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029952
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Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis : religion and female employment over time
Fischer, Justina A. V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015
This study analyses whether the role of religion for employment of married women in Europe has changed over time and … differences by religion among young women, but not among those older than 40 years, which we attribute to an upbringing under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308458
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Culture, institutions & the long divergence
Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021
Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433961
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Elite Influence? Religion, Economics, and the Rise of the Nazis
Spenkuch, Jörg; Tillmann, Philipp - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
understanding of which factors fueled the astonishing rise of the Nazis remains highly incomplete. This paper shows that religion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108831
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Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis: Religion and Female Employment over Time
Fischer, Justina A.V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015
This study analyses whether the role of religion for employment of married women in Europe has changed over time and … differences by religion among young women, but not among those older than 40 years, which we attribute to an upbringing under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307445
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Afterlives: Testimonies of Irish Catholic mothers on infant death and the fate of the unbaptised
Kennedy, Liam - 2019
Children growing up in the Ireland of the 1950s will have a clear remembrance of a metaphysical space or place known as Limbo. For Catholics, though not Irish Protestants, this formed part of a spiritual cosmos which viewed Heaven and Hell as opposite poles, with Purgatory and Limbo occupying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030034
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Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence
Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021
Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012581963