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Institutions, Factor Prices and Taxation : Virtues of Strong States?

Acemoglu, Daron - 2010

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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El capital como poder : un estudio del orden y el creorden

Bikler, Šimšōn; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2018

Las teorías convencionales del capitalismo están sumidas en una profunda crisis: tras siglos de debates todavía son incapaces de decirnos qué es el capital. Tanto liberales como marxistas se refieren al capital como una entidad "económica" que puede ser contabilizada en unidades universales...

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Finance and democracy in Africa

Simplice A, Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The motivations of the Arab Spring and hitherto unanswered questions about some of its dynamics inspired this paper, which focuses on how democracy, polity and autocracy affect financial development dynamics of depth, efficiency, activity and size in Africa; contingent on religious-domination,...

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Fiscal Rules and Discretion Under Self-Enforcement

Halac, Marina - 2017

We study a fiscal policy model in which the government is present-biased towards public spending. Society chooses a fiscal rule to trade off the benefit of committing the government to not overspend against the benefit of granting it flexibility to react to privately observed shocks to the value...

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James M. Buchanan and the Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice : Extending the Italian Tradition of Public Finance

Wagner, Richard E. - 2017

The Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice began publication in 1983 under the title Economia delle scelte … Empoli) desire to amplify and extend the Italian orientation toward public finance that Antonio de Viti de Marco (1888) set …, however, remains unchanged, in that it continues to welcome contributions within public finance and public choice within the …

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The scientist and the church

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...

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New imperialism or new capitalism?

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Over the past century, the institution of capital and the process of its accumulation have been fundamentally transformed. By contrast, the theories that explain this institution and process have remained largely unchanged. The purpose of this paper is to address this mismatch. Using a broad...

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Priorities and Pathways in Services Reform — Part I :Quantitative Studies

Dee, Philippa (contributor) - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

This book presents a state-of-the-art evaluation of the benefits and costs of behind-the-border services reform. It introduces new, second-generation methods for quantifying regulatory barriers and applies those methods to a wide range of services sectors ¡ª financial, infrastructure and...

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Finance and Democracy in Africa

Asongu, Simplice A. - In: Institutions and Economies (formerly known as … 6 (2014) 3, pp. 92-116

This paper focuses on how political regimes affect financial developments in Africa and the role of dominant religion, income levels and colonial legacies in this regard. The findings indicate that authoritarian regimes have a higher propensity to effect policies that favour the development of...

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CONTRADICTIONS: FINANCE, GREED, AND LABOR UNEQUALLY PAID

Zarembka, Paul (contributor) - Department of Economics, State University of New …

labor of women adversely affects labor productivity. (New paragraph) Analysis of finance engenders discussion of its place …

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