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university, particularly Ivy League universities, MIT welcomed Jewish economists …MIT emerged from “nowhere” in the 1930s to its place as one of the three or four most important sites for economic …
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economists but also civil servants, journalists, publishers, librarians and military, and rapidly changing institutional and … reacted to changes in the way economists' work was evaluated, in the nature and size of the literature they produced, in the … types of applied work economists identified themselves with. The 1990 classification system was only incrementally …
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The present study is part of a much larger study that examined the ethics of bribery and the ethics of tax evasion from a variety of perspectives. In this study, data were taken from the most recent World Values Survey. More than 62 percent of the Jewish sample believed that taking a bribe could...
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failure in academia, and consequently of the emigration of Austrian economists. Finally, we have a short look at the …
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This paper discusses the similarities and differences in the plurality of practices regarding the use of interviews by historians of economics - i.e., either the use of someone else's interviews as sources or the use of interviews conducted by the historian for her or his work.
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There are hundreds and thousands of schools of thought in social science and humanities, while there is only one school of thought in natural science. This paper investigates the question how to unify all schools of thought in social science and humanities into one scientific school of thought...
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Economic Association. Its subject is the views entertained by a number of eminent Italian economists on the international … the tradition of the “Germanist school” of economists very strong at the University of Padua and in important institutions … recalled, and the focus is placed on its analysis by eminent Italian economists, emphasizing the diverging views of Graziani …
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Be it on topics of property, contract, commerce, trade, tax, legal history, or other matters, jurisprudence in the United States often invokes economic thinking in providing a rationale for legal outcomes. Consequently, I wondered how often the appeal to economic thinking in the courts included...
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The aim of this paper is to explain what philosophical commitments drove mainstream professional economists to … were adopted by economists such that they could assume, in practice, that there is a self-sufficient a-political domain of …
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