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Private Land Ownership: Tax or Socialize?

The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study compares the land reform concepts of Henry George and Silvio Gesell, both of whom rejected private appropriation of land rent as unjust. While George proposed to “hollow out” private land ownership through a comprehensive land value tax, Gesell aimed at full socialization of land combined with lease auctions and compensation of ...
Dirk Loehr
wiley   +1 more source

International Reserves: Precautionary versus Mercantilist Views, Theory and Evidence [PDF]

This paper tests the importance of precautionary and mercantilist motives in accounting for the hoarding of international reserves by developing countries, and provides a model that quantifies the welfare gains from optimal management of international ...
Jaewoo Lee, Joshua Aizenman
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Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption?

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption? Such campaigns use messaging about how people typically behave (descriptive norms) or ought to behave (injunctive norms). Drawing on survey and lab experiments in Ukraine, we unpack and evaluate the distinct effects of these two types of social norms.
Aaron Erlich, Jordan Gans‐Morse
wiley   +1 more source

Productivity and the Business Cycle in Japan: Evidence from Japanese Industry Data [PDF]

Constructing thirty-seven industries database, we examines whether measured productivity in Japan is procyclical and investigates the sources of that procyclicality using the production function approach employed by Hall (1990) and Basu and Fernald (1995)
Miho Takizawa, Tsutomu Miyagawa, Yukie Sakuragawa   +2 more
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Decentralized propaganda in the era of digital media: The massive presence of the Chinese state on Douyin

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The rise of social media in the digital era poses unprecedented challenges to authoritarian regimes that aim to influence public attitudes and behaviors. To address these challenges, we argue that authoritarian regimes have adopted a decentralized approach to produce and disseminate propaganda on social media.
Yingdan Lu, Jennifer Pan, Xu Xu, Yiqing Xu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Differences in hoarding behavior between captive and wild sympatric rodent species

Current Zoology, 2011
In hand reared birds and mammals, it is generally considered that the development of hoarding behavior is the result of an interaction between the development and maturation of the nervous system and learning from individual experience.
Hongmao ZHANG, Yu WANG
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Perversity, futility, complicity: Should democrats participate in autocratic elections?

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Electoral authoritarianism is receiving increasing attention from political scientists, yet it has been mostly ignored by political philosophers. This paper aims to fill some of this gap by considering whether it is morally permissibly for democrats to participate in autocratic elections as candidates or voters.
Zoltan Miklosi
wiley   +1 more source

Systemic risk spillovers of nonfinancial firms: Does bank liquidity hoarding matter? Evidence from China

International Review of Economics & Finance
Given the strong interdependencies between the economic and financial systems, nonfinancial firms have a significant impact on systemic risk. In this scenario, we examine the influence of bank liquidity hoarding on risk spillovers of nonfinancial firms ...
Bo Zhu, Yufei Zhang, Xiru Li, Xin Hu
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The unseen and unacceptable face of digital libraries [PDF]

, 2004
The social and organisational aspects of digital libraries (DLs) are often overlooked, but this paper reviews how they can affect users' awareness and acceptance of DLs.
Adams, A, Blandford, A
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