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Inclusivity is perhaps the single most important human need to facilitate and demonstrate fairness for all members in an open and free society. When this principle need is compromised by appearances of unscrupulous self-interested privileged elites to perpetuate a systemic widening disparity...
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about the Quantity Theory of Money, but he hesitated to probe too deeply into the political and ideological elements of its … history, perhaps leading him to underestimate their importance for the theory's evolution. -- money ; Quantity theory ; value … theory ; positive economics ; empiricism ; formalism ; bimetallism ; gold standard ; monetarism …
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This article reviews an English translation of "First Principles of Islamic Economics" (Leicester: Islamic Foundation, 2011) by Maulana Sayyid Abu'l A‘la Maududi (1903-1979), a foundational document of the field, that was published in Urdu in 1969. After a brief Introduction the selections in...
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General Theory. 2) Hawtrey derived the principle of purchasing power parity to explain the determination of exchange rates … sensitivity a relationship between income and expenditure that would later be deployed by Keynes in the General Theory, which …
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Commitment to the behaviorist approach to utility theory, to the usefulness of mathematics in economic analysis and to … the establishment of the Cowles Commission, institutions advancing economic theory in connection to mathematics and …
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This article addresses the question of whether sanctions constitute violence in the broad sense of that term, and whether, and under what conditions, sanctions can be justified. The sanctions imposed against Iraq and Cuba are discussed as case studies and several ethical theories are applied to...
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Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) was an economist and journalist. A member of the French Liberal School, he is best known for his free trade ideas and his philosophy of law. Mark Blaug ranks him as one of the 100 greatest economists before Keynes. Schumpeter called him a brilliant economic...
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recession. It is an application of the Keynesian multiplier theory, which was expounded in Keynes' 1936 economic treatise, The … General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Post-1936 economic history has given the multiplier theory mixed reviews … economist and journalist. He discussed the multiplier theory in the 1840s, more than a generation before John Maynard Keynes …
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Although Cournot's mathematical economics was generally neglected until the mid- 1870s, he was taken up and carefully studied by the Scientific Club of Cambridge, Massachusetts even before his "discovery" by Walras and Jevons. The episode is reconstructed from fragmentary manuscripts of the...
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In the last decade of the nineteenth century, Italian scholars started using a scientific methodology to tackle public finance problems. Their studies are now referred to as the Italian tradition in public finance, whose origin is considered to lie with De Viti de Marco (1888). Shortly before...
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