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Review Essay: Sound Money without Free Banking: Revisiting Economic Principles

open access: yesQuarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 2023
Professor Lawrence H. White is one of the founders of the modern free banking school and a major scholar of monetary theory and history. In _Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin?_ he draws on close to four decades of scholarship to answer the question ...
Kristoffer J. Mousten Hansen
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Blockchain‐Based Smart Contracts in US Specialty Crop Marketing: Grower Preferences and Adoption Potential

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales   +3 more
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Modern Monetary Theory and Employer of Last Resort in Colombia

open access: yesApuntes del CENES
This paper critically examines the applicability of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) in Colombia, focusing specifically on the Employer of Last Resort (ELR) program as a possible development policy.
Medardo-Alfonso Palomino-Arias
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Regional payment agreements: An alternative to currency convertibility?

open access: yesCuadernos de Economía, 2023
Regional Payment Agreements (RPAs) replicate, on a regional scale, John M. Keynes’s proposal at the Bretton Woods Conference, based on the recording and subsequent clearing of transactions.
Marcelo Bruchanski, Andrea Molinari
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Modern monetary theory: A historical retrospective

open access: yesSt Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies, 2022
This article examines applied aspects of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Currently, this theory has gained popularity in wide academic circles and is the subject of wide discourse among both theoretical economists and practical economists. Scholars evaluate this theory ambiguously, and many researchers believe its main provisions are divorced from ...
openaire   +1 more source

Accounting for animal health in efficiency analysis: An application to Swedish dairy farms

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Poor animal health is a central concern in modern livestock production. Despite the necessity to incorporate animal health in efficiency analysis, the theoretical and empirical developments are limited on this subject. This article appropriately characterizes the axiomatic properties of animal health within a production framework.
Frederic Ang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving access to new technologies: An experiment with Kenyan input sellers

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Agrodealers play a critical role in rural economies, selling essential inputs for agricultural production, stocking new products, and providing farmers with technical advice. However, uncertainty can discourage them from stocking newer, less familiar products, limiting the availability of innovative technologies and leading to market failures ...
Sarah W. Kariuki   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

MODERN MONETARY THEORY JAKO ALTERNATYWNE PODEJ-ŚCIE DO PIENIĄDZA I POLITYKI PIENIĘŻNEJ

open access: yesActa Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Oeconomica, 2014
Niniejszy artykuł stanowi szkic podstawowych zagadnień post-keynesowskiego podejścia do pieniądza i polityki pieniężnej, zwanego Modern Monetary Theory.
Paweł Umiński
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Monetary and real factors affecting economic stability. A critique of certain tendencies in modern economic theory

open access: yesPSL Quarterly Review, 2014
The article begins with a critical review of the principal explanations given by modern economic theory of cyclical movements in the volume of output and employment.
G. HABERLER
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Firm turnover under asymmetric information: Tanzania's agro‐dealer sector

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We study firm turnover (i.e., entry and exit) and its consumer implications in a market characterized by asymmetric information. Using a three‐round census of agro‐dealers in Tanzania's Morogoro Region, we document annual firm entry and exit rates of 33% and 17%, respectively.
Alix Naugler   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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