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that focuses on the connection between liberal theory and the practices of liberal agency. In this view liberal theorising …
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have it). Coming from actor-network theory, the literature contributes conceptually to an extended ontology of markets and …) Divide between finance the-ory and financial markets. However, the review finds that the literature is marked by a … methodological bias. The lit-erature works with the microsociological methods of actor-network theory and thus tends to deliver …
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address these questions from the perspective of the theory of international public goods, which is a powerful way to organise …
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Political opposition to technical change is not a new phenomenon; at the plant level, organised labour has often resisted implementation of new technologies, as is exemplified by the Luddites in the nineteenth century, the dockers' strikes against the use of containers in Britain in the early...
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have declined sufficiently, to wait for the predictions of the neo-classical theory of factor mobility to materialise …. According to this theory, production factors respond to market disequilibrium by moving from regions in which they are abundant …
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In the last decade or so, growth has come to occupy an increasingly important place among the interests of macroeconomists, displacing to some extent their previous preoccupation with the business cycle. This change is largely due to two factors. The first one is the realisation that, in terms...
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The EIB finances a large number of projects in support of EU policies including social and economic cohesion, that is to reduce regional disparities in income. Since 1995, the EIB Evaluation Department has looked at over 100 projects where the Bank has been involved, normally along the lines of...
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Many observers suspect economic growth to be inextricably associated with inequality: growth alone need not bring about unalloyed, uncontroversial increases in economic well-being because rising average income levels might come together with increasing disparities between rich and poor....
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invited speculative attacks in the foreign exchange markets that quite often spilled over to the banking sector, and led to … banking crises. Recently, the analysis of the financial crises has led to a new consensus among policy makers, i.e., the … the exchange rate regime and the occurrence of banking crises (Section 4). This analysis will also allow us to connect …
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Public-private partnerships have emerged as an alternative to traditional public procurement in financing and providing infrastructure services. This paper considers public-private partnerships as another form of public sector intervention in the economy. It analyses the microeconomic pros and...
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