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Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli +2 more
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The institutional dimension of market failure
Ekonomia i Prawo, 2019 Motivation: At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, institutionalism was presented by T. Veblen as an alternative to neoclassical economics. On the basis of neoclassical economics, in addition to the explanation how an effectively functioning market ...
Wojciech Giza
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(WP 2015-03) Lawson on Veblen on Social Ontology [PDF]
, 2015 This paper discusses Lawson’s use of Veblen’s concept of ‘neoclassical economics’ and argument that the category of neoclassical economics should be jettisoned on the grounds that it obfuscates effective critique of mainstream economics.
Davis, John B.
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Women in development: a critique of neo-classical economic theory as one of the causes for gender inequality [PDF]
, 2020 This research reviews and critiques neoliberalism and neoclassical economics for them being one of the main causes for the subordination and oppression of women.
El Morally, Reham
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan +3 more
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Economics of Productive Consumption as an Off shoot of Main Currents of Economic Theory [PDF]
ACTA VŠFS, 2019 This article presents economics of productive consumption (EPC) as a relatively new and forward-looking trend in economic theory that reacts to the modern expansion in services associated with the acquisition, retention, and application of human ...
Radim Valenčík, Petr Wawrosz
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Efficient Use of Behavioral Tools to Reduce Electricity Demand of Domestic Consumers
Scientific Annals of Economics and Business, 2016 Purpose: The present study investigated the main literature on the subject of methods and policies for reducing the electricity demand of domestic consumers, in order to identify the place of behavioral tools.
Elbaz Shimon, Zaiţ Adriana
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Popular society increasingly questions preferences that drive many resource allocations and production decisions, with many groups actively seeking to alter those preferences to achieve changes to resource use. Agricultural and applied economists, who are already equipped with excellent technical skills to undertake consumer preference and ...
Brian E. Roe
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Genealogy and Objectives of Economic Science
Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization, 2011 This paper is an attempt to explain the relationship between subjective elements of social sciences and the framework in which they have evolved and found their research program.
Zahid Siddique
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As-If Behavioral Economics: Neoclassical Economics in Disguise? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 For a research program that counts improved empirical realism among its primary goals, it is surprising that behavioral economics appears indistinguishable from neoclassical economics in its reliance on “as-if” arguments. “As-if” arguments are frequently put forward in behavioral economics to justify “psychological” models that add new parameters to ...
Berg, Nathan, Gigerenzer, Gerd
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