The Consumer's Reservation Price as an Adaptive Aspiration Level. [PDF]
Behav Sci (Basel)van Baal S.
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Peace, War and International Security: Economic Theories (trial entry) [PDF]
This paper considers the economic theories that are relevant for the study of peace war and international security . It presents different levels of generality, starting with the big questions of international security, which are usually the domain of ...
Fanny Coulomb, J Paul Dunne
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The Capital–Labour–State Dynamics of Herbicide Adoption in Rainfed India
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper engages debates around the capital–labour–state dynamics of agrarian transitions to address the oft‐studied but still little‐understood question of why farmers adopt herbicides when they do. Over the last several years, smallholder farmers in India have begun using the herbicide bispyribac sodium at breakneck speeds, particularly in
Carly Nichols, Nidhi Kumari
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Internet Penetration and Leisure Activity Entropy: A Macro-Micro Integrated Analysis. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel)Li H, Dai J.
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The Structure of Neoclassical Consumer Theory [PDF]
This paper offers an accessible introductory survey of the application of abstract choice theory to consumer theory. In the process, the paper identifires---somewhat more carefully than is usual in the literature--- the relatively small role of the ...
Alan G. Isaac
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Rural Capitalists and Development in Colonial Africa: A Comparative Analysis
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the emergence and role of rural capitalists in colonial Sub‐Saharan Africa by comparing three peasant‐based economies: Bechuanaland, the Gold Coast and Tanganyika. Using social tables, we estimate the population and income shares of better earning agricultural producers and assess their impact on rural inequality and ...
Prince Young Aboagye +2 more
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Economic Entropy and the Cobb-Douglas Function: A Scientometric Analysis. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel)Betancur-Hinestroza IC +3 more
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Causal Depth contra Humean Empiricism: Aspects of a Scientific Realist Approach to Explanation [PDF]
The purpose of this note is to clarify how the idea of "causal depth" can play a role in finding the more "approximately true" explanation through causal comparisons.
Khan, Haider
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What Are Asset Price Bubbles? A Survey on Definitions of Financial Bubbles
Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Financial bubbles and crashes have repeatedly caused economic turmoil notably but not just during the 2008 financial crisis. However, both in the popular press as well as scientific publications, the meaning of bubble is sometimes unspecified.
Michael Heinrich Baumann +1 more
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Measuring financial sector efficiency in China: A study based on an enhanced neoclassical production function. [PDF]
PLoS OneZheng C, Shan Y.
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