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Modern mathematical science and technology: Formalisation of the life world [PDF]
, 2011 In this dissertation, I offer a critical examination of modern science with a particular stress on the changes that the modern scientific project inaugurated. The focus is how modern science has radically changed the way we think about the world.
Summerton, Ciaran
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Towards an Evolutionary Interpretation of Aggregate Labor Market Regularities [PDF]
Three well-known aggregate regularities (i.e. Beveridge, Wage, and Okun's curves) seem to provide a quite complete picture of the interplay between labor market macro-dynamics and business cycle.
Giorgio Fagiolo +2 more
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On the Effects of Regulation-Induced Forex Market Segmentation in Small Open Economies [PDF]
The central banks of small open economies have to procure the proper operation of the payments system for transactions with the rest of the world. They do so facing the constraint of a limited stock of international reserves.
Alejandro Reynoso
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Releasing the Power of Digital Metadata: Examining Large Networks of Co-Related Publications
, 2008 Bibliographic metadata plays a key role in scientific literature, not only to summarise and establish the facts of the publication record, but also to track citations between publications and hence to establish the impact of individual articles within ...
Carr, Les, Payne, Terry, Tarrant, David
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Regulation and macroeconomic performance [PDF]
Regulation is purportedly enacted to serve specific social purposes. In reality, however, it follows a more complex political economy process, where legitimate social goals are mixed with the objectives of particular interest groups.
Loayza, Norman V. +2 more
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Institutional change, regional features and aggregate performance in eight EU’s transition countries [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to throw some light on the main differences/similarities and dynamics in institutional frameworks, regional/sectoral features and aggregate performances in the eight transition countries that became EU members in May 2004 (8 ...
Enrico Marelli, Marcello Signorelli
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The Mystery of Capital and the Construction of Social Reality [PDF]
, 2008 John Searle’s The Construction of Social Reality and Hernando de Soto’s The Mystery of Capital shifted the focus of current thought on capital and economic development to the cultural and conceptual ideas that underpin market economies and that are taken
Ehrlich, Isaac +2 more
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Markets, Contracts, or Integration? The Adoption, Diffusion, and Evolution of Organizational Form [PDF]
The rise of contract farming and vertical integration is one of the most important changes in modern agriculture. Yet the adoption and diffusion of these new forms of organization has varied widely across regions, commodities, or farm types, however ...
James, Harvey S., Jr. +2 more
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Financial equilibrium with career concerns [PDF]
What are the equilibrium features of a financial market where a sizeable proportion of traders face reputational concerns? This question is central to our understanding of financial markets, which are increasingly dominated by institutional investors. We
Dasgupta, Amil, Prat, Andrea
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