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Tolerance in the United States : does economic freedom transform racial, religious, political and sexual attitudes?
Berggren, Niclas; Nilsson, Therese - 2015
Tolerance is a distinguishing feature of Western culture: There is a widespread attitude that people should be allowed to say what they want even if one dislikes the message. Still, the degree of tolerance varies between and within countries, as well as over time, and if one values this kind of...
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Financial, economic and social systems : French Regulation School, Social Structures of Accumulation and Post-Keynesian approaches compared
Hein, Eckhard; Dodig, Nina; Budyldina, Natalia - 2014
This paper surveys some of the important literatures on financial, economic and social systems with an eye towards explaining the tendencies towards 'financialisation'. We focus on important strands of this literature: the French Regulation School, the US-based Social Structures of Accumulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010242863
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Economic Freedom and Happiness
Gropper, Daniel - 2013
That liberty is necessary for greater happiness and a better life is a notion deeply rooted in the American sensibility. But is there a link between greater freedom and greater happiness across countries? In this article we explore this question by examining the empirical relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083278
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Freedom and Democracy in a World Governed by Finance : Habermas and the Crisis in Europe -- A Free Labor Response
Minda, Gary - 2017
into ‘economic government' threatening not only economic disaster but the end of the world's first supranational project … ahead to new cosmopolitan possibilities freed from the twentieth century experiences of world war and economic depression …. What are at stake are the basic social arrangements created in the post-World War era for sharing the wealth, the burdens …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974763
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Exogenous Resource Shocks and Economic Freedom
O'Reilly, Colin - 2016
There is an extensive literature on the presence of valuable natural resources creating a competition for control of central states and resource rents. This mechanism has been argued to be an important underlying factor preventing certain countries from acquiring good institutions and achieving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984126
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Reflections on the SARS-Covid-2 pandemic after one year : predictable, preventable but inevitable: an ecologist’s perspective
Harvey, Jeffrey - In: Central European review of economics and management : CEREM 5 (2021) 1, pp. 7-22
-political-economic system across the industrialized world is neoliberal capitalism that focuses on economic growth and profit maximization … to create social justice across the world. This is imperative if we are to create a sustainable future and to protect … much of the living world from destruction. …
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Financial Liberalization, International Monetary Dis/Order, and the Neoliberal State
Canova, Timothy A. - 2009
two of the article analyzes the relationship between central bank autonomy, another institutional pillar of the new world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014055937
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Global Finance and the International Monetary Fund's Neoliberal Agenda : The Threat to the Employment, Ethnic Identity, and Cultural Pluralism of Latina/o Communities
Canova, Timothy A. - 2009
legal scholars to similar tensions within policymaking institutions such as the IMF and World Bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014056012
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Why are so many Western intellectuals abandoning liberalism and what can we do about it?
Crăiuţu, Aurelian - In: Journal of contextual economics : Schmollers Jahrbuch 142 (2022) 1, pp. 1-20
This article analyzes some of the reasons why so many Western intellectuals have seemed ready to abandon the principles of liberalism lately in search for alternative solutions. I begin by examining the fascination exercised by Viktor Orbán among conservatives in the US who emerged as staunch...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518371
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Entrepreneurs´ acceptance of formal institutions : a cross-country analysis
Freytag, Andreas; Noseleit, Florian - 2009
Institutional settings and the resulting incentive structures are crucial for economic development. The type of entrepreneurial activity and the entrepreneurial effort are especially dependent on underlying incentive structures. We argue that institutions with better incentive structures for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857757