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“STRANDED ON THE SHORES OF HISTORY”? MONUMENTS AND (ART‐)HISTORICAL AWARENESS

History and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can past agents deliberately influence our historical awareness by designing objects’ appearances and sending them to us down the stream of time? We know they have certainly tried to do so by raising monuments. But according to an influential narrative, the efforts of the “monumentalists” are destined to fail: no monument can keep a legacy ...
Jakub Stejskal
wiley   +1 more source

Global Business Cycles in a Neoclassical Growth Model with Spirits of Capitalism

Bulletin of Economic Theory and Analysis, 2019
The purpose of the paper is to identify business cycles due to exogenous shocks in a global economic growth model with endogenous social status, endogenous preferences, and wealth accumulation. The basic model by Zhang (2017) is built on the basis of the
Wei-bin Zhang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

On convergence in endogenous growth models. [PDF]

In this paper we analyze the rate of convergence to a balanced path in a class of endogenous growth models with physical and human capital. We show that such rate depends locally on the technological parameters of the model.
Ortiguera, Salvador, Santos, Manuel S.
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Optimal Taxation of Capital in the Presence of Declining Labor Share

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the implications of the decline in labor's share in national income for optimal Ramsey taxation. It is optimal to accompany the decline in labor share by raising capital taxes only if the labor share is falling because of a decline in competition or other mechanisms that raise the share of pure profits.
Orhan Erem Atesagaoglu, Hakki Yazici
wiley   +1 more source

Social Choice, Social Sustainability, and Why the Neoclassical Approach Fails to See the Difference

Zarządzanie Publiczne, 2019
Objectives: The neoclassical economic framework is a dominant approach in both theoretical and applied fields, such as public policy design. Despite the substantial amount of criticism towards the neoclassical assumptions of rational choice and obstacles
Iana Okhrimenko
semanticscholar   +1 more source

What I Really, Really Want: The Role, Nature, and Value of True Preferences in the Ethics of Nudging

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, we discuss the role that ‘true preferences’ can and should play in discussions on the possibility and desirability of paternalist nudges. Critics have claimed that such preferences do not exist, cannot be known reliably by third parties, and cannot justify whether and how to nudge people.
Bart Engelen, Viktor Ivanković
wiley   +1 more source

How Does Loss Aversion Mediate the Relationship Between Personality Traits and Efficiency of Skills in Investment Decision- Making?

International Review of Management and Marketing
This study examines how loss aversion mediates the connection between personality factors and the effectiveness of investment decision-making skills among individual investors at the Colombo Stock Exchange.
A.M.A. Jayawardena, N.S. Nanayakkara
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QUASI-LINEAR PREFERENCES IN THE MACROECONOMY: INDETERMINACY, HETEROGENEITY ANDTHE REPRESENTATIVE CONSUMER [PDF]

We use aggregation theory to investigate the link between one-consumer and multi-consumer economies under a quasi-linear class of preferences. Our study is carried out in the context of the neoclassical growth model.
Lilia Maliar, Serguei Maliar
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Opening the Black Box of ‘Convergence’ in the European Monetary Union: A Discursive Analysis

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract ‘Convergence’ stands out as a prominent signifier in discourse about the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), recently also gaining prominence in debates within Comparative Political Economy (CPE) studies on the Eurozone crisis. However, these studies neglect the concept's endogenous deployment in EMU discourse and, therefore, how it ...
Guillermo Alonso Simón
wiley   +1 more source

Labor Market and Home Production: Are Men and Women Equal?

Revista Estudos Feministas, 2010
Female labor market participation is one of the central investigation topics in feminist economics’ studies. Even after an increase in the labor market participation and the decrease in the wage gap between men and women, the latter still face great ...
Regina Madalozzo, Sergio Ricardo Martins, Ludmila Shiratori   +2 more
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