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institutions. In this paper, I will sketch a theory of real-existing socialist economies from a property rights/public choice …
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-financed corporate bailouts to reduce these distortions and points to the causes of inefficiencies in real-world implementations such as …
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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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This study explores the manner in which the availability of natural resources wealth, foreign aid or corruption potential constrains institutional improvements. By providing a framework, where rulers, bureaucracy and the citizens act endogenously, we show that the rents from these resources can...
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economy where foreign investment triggers Stolper-Samuelson effects through reducing exporting costs. We show how incentives …
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In its property ethics, the theory of a Christian society tries to bring together two statements that at first glance … are not easily reconciled. The first statement underscores the importance of private property to the freedom and personal … result. This holds for the Catholic theory of society as well as for Protestant social ethics. Even though most of the …
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generally not justifiable. Both of these groups also apply a version of rights theory. However, both groups of theorists apply … an incomplete version of both utilitarian ethics and rights theory. The approach proposed in this paper employs a more …
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Many of the most pernicious economic institutions and policies create entry barriers or manipulate factor prices to transfer resources from entrepreneurs and workers to groups that hold political power. These inefficiencies partly result from the fact that direct and efficient fiscal instruments...
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