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quantification. The purpose of our contribution is to analyze the impact of such quantitative indices on the further development of …
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quantification. The purpose of our contribution is to analyze the impact of such quantitative indices on the further development of …
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The need for quantifying human capital emerged naturally with its use in economic research, but so did problems of measurement. The objective of this article is to analyse the most common difficulties in quantifying and defining human capital. This paper will offer a qualitative survey of the...
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In 1985 the Department of Economics at Dickinson College USA, a private four year liberal arts college, embarked upon a bold but promising reform of its economics programme placing it on the cutting edge of what is now called 'pluralist economics education'. This new approach to the philosophy...
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Pluralism is a key term in the current discourse in heterodox economics, emphasizing the need for greater theoretical … integration and institutional cooperation of different economic traditions. However, both the nature of pluralism and the concrete … pluralism as a guideline for organizing heterodox economic research, in particular, as well as economic debates, in general. In …
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This paper provides a taxonomy and evaluation of five common arguments against pluralism in economics: (1) the claim … its own, (3) assertion that pluralism means "anything goes" and is thus unscientific, (4) the claim that economics must … have a single core paradigm to justify its role as a major science, and (5) the contention that pluralism is an ideological …
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The financial crisis has turned into a real economic crisis and then into a public finance crisis: its political and social implications show very obviously, even to the most unaware people, how much economic matters are a social and political phenomenon. Is political economy going to be more...
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The objective of this guide is twofold. First, it shall enable interested readers to understand and reproduce the process of collecting author-specific citation metrics and publication data from the Thomson Reuters Web of Science and Scopus databases that is adopted in Andreoli-Versbach and...
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