How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency
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’ Hard Fate in the Global Economic Crisis [PDF]
The crisis of mainstream economic theory has persisted for over 50 years, but recent global economic shifts have added new qualitative features, highlighting not only the theory’s lack of practical and predictive value but also the inadequacy of its ...
Sergei A. TOLKACHEV
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Dimensional Analysis in Economics: A Study of the Neoclassical Economic Growth Model [PDF]
The fundamental purpose of the present research article is to introduce the basic principles of dimensional analysis in the context of the neoclassical economic theory, in order to apply such principles to the fundamental relations that underlay most ...
Miguel Álvarez Texocotitla +2 more
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Artificial Intelligence and Environmental, Social, and Governance: A Hybrid Bibliometric Approach
ABSTRACT This study provides a comprehensive overview of research on artificial intelligence (AI) and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) by creating a knowledge map of the field. Using a systematic–bibliometric approach, we quantitatively analyzed a total of 129 documents, which collectively were cited 4276 times (2017–2024).
Qiang (John) Wu +3 more
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On the Precedence of Constraints on Growth: Advocating the Ecological Footprint Perspective
Sobre la prelación de las restricciones al crecimiento económico: abogando por la perspectiva basada en la huella ecológica Nuestro objetivo es proponer la huella ecológica como la primera restricción al crecimiento que enfrenta actualmente la economía ...
Carlos Guerrero de Lizardi
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Nudging ESG Investments via Digital Financial Advising: Evidence From an Investment Game Experiment
ABSTRACT The influence of financial advisors on retail investors' sustainable investment choices remains surprisingly underexplored, despite their potential to shape investment behavior. This study uses an experimental design to examine how sustainability‐related information provided by a digital (simulated) financial advisor affects individual demand ...
Caterina Lucarelli +2 more
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Pursuing a Grand Theory: Douglass C. North and the early making of a New Institutional Social Science (1950-1981) [PDF]
Purpose – The paper provides a detailed historical account of Douglass C. North's early intellectual contributions and analytical developments in pursuing a Grand Theory for why some countries are rich and others poor.
Keanu Telles
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Revising Growth Theory in the Artificial Age: Putty and Clay Labor
The introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in our contemporary society imposes historically unique challenges for humankind. The emerging autonomy of AI holds unique potentials of eternal life of robots, AI and algorithms alongside unprecedented ...
Julia M. Puaschunder
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ABSTRACT Amid growing resource pressures, environmental regulation plays a critical role in enabling the transition to a circular economy (CE). This study conducts a systematic literature review to synthesize how different regulatory approaches—command‐and‐control, market‐based, voluntary, and reflexive—affect CE transitions across economic and ...
Li Yuan
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