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The Trolley Problem Revisited. An Exploratory Study
Annales Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym, 2018 Recent studies by cognitive scientists demonstrate that people’s choices are more complex than the image provided by rational choice theory, and consistency of choice is not a characteristic to be expected in real-life situations.
Sharaf Rehman +1 more
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National Wealth, Income and the History of Economic Growth
Despite its current dominant status, economic growth emerged as a field of study and as a political objective only after the Second World War. This book provides an alternative perspective to the Anglo-centric historical analysis of growth by turning the
Mikkonen, Heikki
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Introduction: The history of economics as a history of practice
The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2011 This issue of The European Journal for the History of Economic Thought brings together a selection of papers originally presented at the annual conference of the European Society for the History of...
Maas, Harro, Mata, Tiago, Davis, John B.
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The Early History of Environmental Economics [PDF]
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2014 AbstractThis article traces the history of economists’ treatment of environmental problems prior to the establishment of environmental economics as a separate field in the 1960s.
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Historical patterns of economic growth in Africa: a review
, 2016 The study of long term growth in Africa has recently been invigorated by the work of economists. To date, this literature has been motivated by explaining a divergence of income and has focussed on finding persistent factors that can explain a chronic ...
Jerven, Morten
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Climate change framings and linkages across international organizations
Earth System GovernanceAs climate change is becoming an ever more pressing global policy challenge, the linkages of climate change to other issue areas are diversifying. This article seeks to explain why some climate linkages are more likely to spread across international ...
Karina Shyrokykh, Lisa Dellmuth
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Reinterpretation of economic history in the Baltic countries, 30 years after independence
What has happened to the economic history in and about the three Baltic countries Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania after independence in 1991? The survey includes problem areas researched, the reinterpretations of history in different periods, in particular
Köll, Anu Mai, Kõll, Anu Mai,
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A History of Contemporary Economic Theories
, 2020 The increased specialisation visible in economics research has been intertwined with the gradual disappearance of the study of the history of economic thought from universities worldwide.
Thomas, Alex M.
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Development Studies ResearchThe successful economic performance of Pacific Asia is often held as a source of inspiration for aspiring catching-up countries. Notwithstanding, recent literature suggests that a key to the understanding of successful long-term economic performance lies
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LandEthiopia achieved a remarkable episode of agricultural intensification from the mid-1990s to the late 2010s, yet the political mechanisms that enabled this transformation—and the distributional and environmental consequences that followed—remain ...
Emelie Rohne Till, Martin Andersson
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