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The State and the Market in Industrial Development: Perspectives from the 1980s

open access: yesAsian Development Review, 1992
The relationship between the state and the market has been a continuous theme for those economists seeking to understand the process of economic growth and to advise on policies to affect that process.
George Rosen
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Narrative Economics

open access: yes, 2019
This address considers the epidemiology of narratives relevant to economic fluctuations. The human brain has always been highly tuned toward narratives, whether factual or not, to justify ongoing actions, even such basic actions as spending and investing.
R. Shiller
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Quality-of-life measurement in depression trials: A consumerist relic

open access: yesHealth, 2022
Quality-of-life measurement in depression is advocated as a patient-centred indicator of recovery, but may instead enhance the mimetic authority of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) which have been roundly critiqued in mental health.
S. McPherson, Jeppe Oute, E. Speed
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The economics of the COVID-19 pandemic: an assessment

open access: yesOxford review of economic policy, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has created both a medical crisis and an economic crisis. As others have noted, we face challenges just as big as those in the Spanish Flu Pandemic and the Great Depression—all at once.
Daniel Susskind, D. Vines
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How Likely is an Economic Depression?

open access: yesInternational Journal of Economics and Management Studies, 2020
This paper uses a panel vector-autoregressive (VAR) process with different distributional assumptions to forecast GDP contraction severities and identify the likelihood of a depression threshold event across main Latin American countries. We compare these results to similar hypothetical events for U.S., U.K., France, and Canada.
openaire   +1 more source

Wages, productivity, and work intensity in the Great Depression [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms' intensive margins. Short-run changes in work intensity and the longer-term goal of restoring full potential productivity combined to ...
Hart, Robert A   +3 more
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What Students Learn in Economics 101: Time for a Change

open access: yesJournal of Economic Literature, 2020
We make the case for a shift in what students learn in a first economics course, taking as our exemplar Paul Samuelson’s paradigm-setting 1948 text. In the shadow of the Great Depression, Samuelson made Keynesian economics an essential component of what ...
S. Bowles, W. Carlin
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Health economic evaluation evidence of interventions for peripartum depression: A scoping review.

open access: yesHealth Policy
This scoping review provides a broad overview of the existing literature on economic evaluations of preventive, screening, and treatment programmes for peripartum depression (PPD).
G. Tecirli   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Depression through the Lens of Economics : A Research Agenda

open access: yes, 2018
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the most prevalent mental illnesses worldwide. Existing evidence suggests that it has both economic causes and consequences, such as unemployment. However, depression has not received significant attention in the
Haushofer, Johannes, de Quidt, Jonathan,
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Fiscal Policy and Public Finance Before Keynes

open access: yesReview of the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
This paper examines how fiscal policy was understood in the English language economics before the publication of Keynes’s General Theory (1936). Consideration of the evolving meaning of fiscal policy is preliminary to understanding both the rise of ...
Marianne Johnson
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