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More Productive Bodies Faster! Human Capital and Anti‐Intellectualism in Danish University Reform
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the current Danish reform of master's programmes as a case of contested marketization in higher education. While the reform aims to produce “labour‐market‐relevant” graduates by shortening degrees, introducing corporate programmes, and reducing enrolment, it reveals a fundamental tension between two competing economic ...
Johan Gøtzsche‐Astrup +1 more
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The General Impossibility of Neoclassical Economics
Ensayos Revista de Economía, 2011 This article recalls how neo-classical economics prides itself both on its mathematical rigour and on the universal applicability of its principles, and how, on this basis, “economics imperialism” is colonising the subject matter of the other social ...
Ben Fine
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Economic Record, EarlyView.We evaluate a government‐funded matching policy for retirement savings contributions targeted at low‐ and middle‐income individuals. Using a difference‐in‐difference approach, we exploit administrative changes to the Australian Government's retirement contribution matching (co‐contribution) policy to identify the impact of the programme on savings ...
Kristen Sobeck, Robert Breunig
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Political Economy and Economic Science: The Work of Phyllis Deane [PDF]
Some time ago, Phyllis Deane pointed to “an inescapable tension between political economy and economic science”. Yet, the separation of positive economics (pure and empirical) on the one hand and normative economics (pure and applied) on the other is ...
Heinrich Bortis
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Alfred Marshall’s Puzzles. Between Economics as a Positive Science and Economic Chivalry [PDF]
, 2015 Alfred Marshall’s approach to economics hides a paradox. On one hand, the ‘father’ of neoclassical economics strongly favoured conducting economics as a positive science.
Dzionek-Kozłowska, Joanna
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Antimicrobial Use in Livestock: The Economic Cost of Action or Inaction
Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper quantifies the economy‐wide consequences of two independent global stress‐tests in livestock production. The first assesses the effects of phasing out antimicrobial growth promoters (AGPs), and the second evaluates the long‐term impacts of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) progression.
Alejandro Acosta +9 more
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Behavioral law and economics: Multidisciplinarity in action [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nišu, 2019 This paper presents the theoretical foundations of Behavioral Law and Economics (BLE), as well as the practical implications of some key findings of this discipline.
Mojašević Aleksandar S.
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What Is Neoclassical Economics? The three axioms responsible for its theoretical oeuvre, practical irrelevance and, thus, discursive power [PDF]
This paper offers a precise definition of neoclassical economics based on three axioms which lie at the latters foundations. This definition is all inclusive in that it applies as much to the neoclassical economic models of the late 19th century as it ...
Christian Arnsperger, Yanis Varoufakis
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Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We develop a framework for regulated production systems where output generation and pollution abatement impose competing technological demands. Using a multi‐ware technology, we model the production set as the intersection of two input requirement frontiers, one for production and one for abatement, each reflecting distinct trade‐offs.
Youpei Yan, Robert G. Chambers
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From Wald to Savage: homo economicus becomes a Bayesian statistician [PDF]
Bayesian rationality is the paradigm of rational behavior in neoclassical economics. A rational agent in an economic model is one who maximizes her subjective expected utility and consistently revises her beliefs according to Bayes’s rule.
Giocoli, Nicola
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