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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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Social Science as a Complex Social Science as a Complex Economics as Example
, 2012 Epistemic pluralism, including such perspectives as neuroscience, is a promising strategy for transforming the language games of social science – for putting any and all social sciences in what Wilson (1998) calls consilience, In other words, this paper addresses social science as a complex and pluri-disciplinary system.
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Teaching Economics As a Science: The 1930 Yale Lectures of Ragnar Frisch [PDF]
This paper is prepared for the forthcoming publication of Frisch's 1930 Yale lecture notes, A Dynamic Approach to Economic Theory: The Yale Lectures of Ragnar Frisch (details at: http://www.routledgeeconomics.com/books/A-Dynamic-Approach-to-Economic ...
Duo Qin, Olav Bjerkholt
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Early Modern Political Philosophies and the Shaping of Political Economy [PDF]
, 2017 In the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the paradigm of a new science, political economy, was established. It was a science distinct from the Aristotelian sub-disciplines of practical philosophy named oikonomía and politiké, and emphasis
Cremaschi, Sergio Volodia Marcello
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The Relationship Between Interest Rates and Agricultural Commodity Price Dynamics
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The U.S. Federal Reserve has undertaken several interest rate interventions in the past decade. This study explores the relationship between U.S. corn and soybean prices and Federal Reserve monetary policy interventions, in the short and long run.
Zhining Sun, Ani L. Katchova
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Numeracy and Financial Literacy of Forest-dependent Communities
Vikalpa, 2019 Sundar Balakrishna, Vineet Virmani
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial literacy (FL) of Swedish farmers, its linkages to farmer characteristics, management accounting practices and farm outcomes by surveying Swedish Farm Accountancy Data Network farmers. Using item response theory, we expand the existing FL measurement specifically to the farming context, assess measurement ...
Uliana Gottlieb, Helena Hansson
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The moral layer of contemporary economics: A virtue-ethics perspective [PDF]
This paper questions whether the contemporary science of economics and its recommendations are built on sound moral foundations as assessed from a virtue-based definition of ethical behaviour.
vranceanu, radu
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Economics in Times of Crisis. In Search of a New Paradigm [PDF]
, 2014 JEL Codes: B41, B50The relationship between the development of economics and economic performance is not reducible to any set of simple rules. Among the historians of economic thought there is even a handful of those who perceive the progress in ...
Dzionek-Kozłowska, Joanna
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