Development of the Theory of Capitalist Crises: Political Economy Traditions and Modernity [PDF]
, 2015 The article discusses the development history of the theory of economic crises under capitalism conditions. The author believes that economic science is being developed in two directions.
Ryazanov, V. T.
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Networks of People in Specialty Production: Family Firms in the Iron and Steel Wire Industries in Spain (1870-2000) [PDF]
Capital intensive industries in specialized niches of production have constituted solid ground for family firms in Spain, as evidenced by the experience of the iron and steel wire industries between 1870 and 2000. The embeddedness of these firms in their
Paloma Fernandez Perez
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Chicken suits and other aspects of situated credibility contests: Explaining local trajectories of anti-minority activism [PDF]
, 2019 Why do some towns become focal points for anti-minority activism at particular moments in time, when other towns with similar socio-economic conditions do not?
Busher, Joel +2 more
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Securing a more balanced global economy [PDF]
In this speech, made shortly after the stock market crash of October 1987, President Corrigan identifies imbalances in the U.S. and the world economy that contributed to financial market instability. He emphasizes that the reduction of U.S.
E. Gerald Corrigan
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Commentary on Research Paper entitled "The Critical Shariah Issues of Sukuk"
Journal of Islamic Economics, 2021 The author successfully highlighted wrong practices in Sukuk issuance, ownership, and tradability. Unfortunately, such wrong practices are backed by tricky fiqh justifications.
Abdelrahman Yousri Ahmad
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Do countries default in “bad times”? [PDF]
This paper uses a new dataset to study the relationship between economic output and sovereign default for the period 1820-2004. We find a negative but surprisingly weak relationship between output and default.
Mark L. J. Wright, Michael Tomz
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Understanding socio-economic inequalities in childhood respiratory health [PDF]
Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood. Recent evidence has shown a socio-economic gradient in its distribution. This paper examines whether a number of factors argued to have led to a rise in the incidence of asthma might also explain ...
Carol Propper, John A. Rigg
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The determinants of urban concentration [PDF]
Urban concentration differs across countries. One determinant of these differences is economic development, which first increases and subsequently decreases urban concentration.
Junius, Karsten
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The Middle Eastern Biodiversity Network: Generating and sharing knowledge for ecosystem management and conservation [PDF]
, 2009 Despite prevailing arid conditions, the diversity of terrestrial and freshwater biota in the Middle East is amazingly high and marine biodiversity is among the highest on Earth.
Al-Jumaily, Masaa +5 more
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Are we living in the middle of an Industrial Revolution? [PDF]
The concept of a new Industrial Revolution has recently become of great interest to general economists of all persuasions. For example, the New Growth Theory has placed renewed emphasis on the importance of technological change in modern economic growth,
Joel Mokyr
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