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Speculation in the United Kingdom, 1785‒2019
Abstract Speculation has long been thought to have significant economic effects, but it is difficult to measure, making it challenging to examine these effects empirically. In this paper we measure speculation in the United Kingdom since 1785 by using business and financial reporting in The Times newspaper.
William Quinn +2 more
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ABSTRACT The paper examines the financial balances of the US economy. Government is the main borrower and households and the foreign sector the main lenders. Business net lending is minimal. The balances and their underlying transactions contradict the loanable funds theory and its “global savings glut” variation.
Michalis Nikiforos, Lance Taylor
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“THE NORMAL EXCEPTION”: EDOARDO GRENDI, MICROANALYSIS, AND GENERALIZATIONS*
ABSTRACT “The normal exception” has long been a slogan of microhistory. This oxymoronic phrase is the iconic rendering of an incidental sentence that appeared in a 1977 article by Edoardo Grendi. His article, titled “Micro‐analisi e storia sociale” (Microanalysis and Social History), is cited more often than it is read.
FRANCESCA TRIVELLATO
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A Relational View of Uncertainty
ABSTRACT There is significant confusion and debate in entrepreneurship and strategy research about the nature and locus of uncertainty. Does uncertainty reside internally in the agent or externally in the environment? This article introduces a relational view of uncertainty (RVU) to help reframe this issue.
Daniel Leunbach
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Progress and Poverty: Walter Rodney's Legacy
ABSTRACT The conventional view of human progress states that the more humanity makes progress, the less poverty is entrenched. But, global development is currently characterized by a persistent combination of economic progress and growing relative poverty. This endemic inequality has puzzled economists for years.
Franklin Obeng‐Odoom
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Colonial wars and trade restrictions: Fighting for exclusive trading rights
Abstract This paper develops a model of colonial wars and trade restrictions, in which two metropolises compete for control over a colony's trade policy. In equilibrium, the metropolis that gains control can improve its terms of trade by restricting its rival's access to colonial trade.
Ivan G. Lopez Cruz, Gustavo Torrens
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Keynes John Maynard. Harris Lectures (1931). In: Revue française d'économie, volume 1, n°1, 1986. pp.
John Maynard Keynes +1 more
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Micropolitics of Secrecy: Traders' Enactments of Expertise After the Failed Military Coup in Turkey
ABSTRACT Conducting ethnographic research in financial institutions is challenging because secrecy is pivotal for traders to maintain their expert image. It became more difficult in Turkey after the failed coup in 2016 as Turkish President Erdoğan increasingly weaponized conspiracies that are historically and politically rooted in Turkish society to ...
Deniz Coral‐Irwin
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Il lavoro confronta due approcci alternativi per la soluzione del conflitto tra la necessità di coordinamento internazionale in ambito finanziario e le esigenze di autonomia delle politiche nazionali.
Jan Kregel
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Toward an Austro‐Libertarian Sociology
ABSTRACT Interventionism has become a defining feature of modern societies, shaping individual behavior, economic activity, and social norms through state regulations, subsidies, and collectivist ideologies. Despite its profound impact, sociology has largely failed to critically examine the dynamics of interventionism from a praxeological standpoint in
Alexis Sémanne
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