Almost a century and half of evidence suggests that only individuals who start saving for retirement in the later stages of population busts and the early stages of population booms spend most of their retirement planning phase in bull stock markets with tame inflation, thus benefiting greatly...

The outcomes of near simultaneous bids for the news organizations Reuters Group plc and Dow Jones amp; Co. Inc. in 2007 hinged on mechanisms of corporate governance put in place at each company to protect the integrity and independence of the editorial operations. Neither company is a...

Since the corporate governance scandals of 2001 and 2002, the work of boards of directors has been dominated by board processes and compliance, with a corresponding reduction in the emphasis on value creation. This discussion paper proposes a model for board activities and raises questions about...

Arabic Abstract: تعتبر القيمة الاقتصادية من بين المفاهيم التي يرتكز عليها علم الاقتصاد، وقد عرف هذا المفهوم عدة تطورات منذ أن ظهور المدرستين "الميركانتيلية"...

The whole intellectual edifice has in effect collapsed after 2008's world-economy crisis. Anyhow, this is yet not the first time that the intellectual edifice of economics collapses. The first was the collapse of classical economics the late decades of the 19th century. With the appearance of...

In this paper, I suggest that the history of the classification used by the American Economic Association to list economic literature and scholars is a relevant proxy to understand the transformation of economics science throughout the 20th century. Successive classifications were fashioned...

The principle of “Creating Shared Value” (CSV) introduced in a January 2011 Harvard Business Review article by Professor Michael Porter and Mark Kramer asserts that by addressing actual social needs a company can achieve superior profits and do unequivocal social good. Porter and Kramer...

The aim of my paper is to show that a consistent economic analysis brought to its logical conclusions should destroy any theory of property rights, and as such it is inconsistent with its own premises, and especially with the ideological presuppositions of quite all of its followers. The...

This was the first paper to study exclusively the effects of Ramadan on the United Arab Emirates Stock market. In doing so, the study aims to establish such impacts with the intention of advising the investors on whether it would be profitable to invest during the holy month of Ramadan or no.The...