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Unprincipled Principals in the Accountability Chain: Autonomy and Political Control Within Tax Administration in a Developing Country Context

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT SDG 16 emphasizes the need for accountable institutions, often based on the assumption that public officials are accountable to politicians, who in turn are accountable to citizens. However, in many developing countries, neopatrimonial governance can weaken this accountability chain, as politicians themselves may act as “unprincipled ...
Edidiong Bassey, Emer Mulligan
wiley   +1 more source

Reading Capital in the Twenty-First Century: Thomas Piketty and political economy

Revue de la Régulation, 2020
This paper offers a radical political economy critique of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century, drawing on heterodox economics and the social structure of accumulation (SSA) theory.
David M. Kotz, Terrence McDonough, Cian McMahon   +2 more
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Shareholder Activism: Affliction for Incumbent CEOs?

Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study how shareholder activism shapes CEO careers by distinguishing between two competing hypotheses: discipline and reallocation. Employing a control function approach with expected mutual fund fire sales and purchases as exclusion restrictions, we analyze 3799 US campaigns from 2006 to 2018.
Jana P. Fidrmuc, Jesús Gorrín, Jiaqi Zhao   +2 more
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Neoclassical, mainstream, orthodox, and heterodox economics

, 2015
This paper discusses the concepts of neoclassical, mainstream, orthodox, and heterodox economics, distinguishing temporally more general and more specific concepts. The concept of mainstream economics is based on prestige and influence and includes ideas
Dequech, D
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Does Profit Still Matter? The Implementation of Buddhist Ideas to Contemporary Business: Theory and Practice

Przedsiębiorczość - Edukacja, 2020
The subject matter of this paper is Buddhist economics in theory and practice. The goal is to point out the main concepts of Buddhist economics, which is different from Western mainstream economics, and then explain how applying Buddhist teachings to ...
Magdalena Tusińska
doaj   +1 more source

Methodological Issues of the Meso-level Analysis in Economics [PDF]

Журнал институциональных исследований, 2017
The growth of attention to the meso level analysis in economics, which intensified in the 21st century, is associated with a number of factors. In this paper we draw attention to the following.
Svetlana G. Kirdina-Chandler, Vladimir I. Maevsky   +1 more
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Conceptualising post‐growth to advance corporate sustainability research: A comparative literature review

International Journal of Management Reviews, EarlyView.
Abstract This comparative literature review explores how an expanding body of interdisciplinary post‐growth literature aligns, extends or challenges ecocentric Corporate Sustainability (eCS) research in management (i.e., rooted in systems thinking, emphasising planetary boundaries, ecological limits and embeddedness).
Gianluigi Narciso, Yanfei Hu
wiley   +1 more source

Ce qu’un manuel d’économie hétérodoxe peut être

Revue d’Histoire des Sciences Humaines, 2017
Robert Heilbroner’s The Worldly Philosophers was first published in 1953. The book is considered a classic in history of economic thought. Significant of an heterodox vision in economics and cautious toward the growing mathematisation of economics and ...
Cyrille Ferraton, Ludovic Frobert
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A Conversation With David Bellhouse

International Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary David Richard Bellhouse was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 19 July 1948. He studied actuarial mathematics and statistics at the University of Manitoba (BA, 1970; MA, 1972) and completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, in 1975. After being an Assistant Professor for 1 year at his alma mater, he joined the University of Western ...
Christian Genest
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Governing Through Criminal Selectivity and Lawfare: Non‐Democratic Politics to Entrench Authoritarian Populist Imagination

International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Across much of the Global South and increasingly in the Global North, authoritarian populist imagination blurs boundaries between legality and illegality, weaponising law to suppress dissent while tolerating violence by allied actors. This imagination establishes a symbolic boundary mechanism between punitive/eliminative violence for political
Erman Örsan Yetiş
wiley   +1 more source