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Economics in Times of Crisis. In Search of a New Paradigm [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
JEL Codes: B41, B50The relationship between the development of economics and economic performance is not reducible to any set of simple rules. Among the historians of economic thought there is even a handful of those who perceive the progress in ...
Dzionek-Kozłowska, Joanna
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How did Japan catch‐up with the West? Some implications of recent revisions to Japan's historical growth record

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Revised GDP data suggest that Japan was more than one‐third richer in 1874 than suggested by Maddison, and that Meiji period growth built on earlier development. Despite trend GDP per capita growth during the Tokugawa Shogunate, the catching‐up process only started after 1890 with respect to Britain, and after World War I with respect to the ...
Stephen Broadberry   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Empirical Validation of Agent Based Models: A Critical Survey [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper addresses the problem of finding the appropriate method for conducting empirical validation in agent-based (AB) models, which is often regarded as the Achilles’ heel of the AB approach to economic modelling. The paper has two objectives. First,
Alessio Moneta   +2 more
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Farmers' pro‐social motivations and willingness‐to‐accept in markets with public goods

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract To explain how some farmers' decisions may diverge from profit‐maximization, we incorporate proactive social preferences for public goods in an expected utility framework, in addition to reactive risk preferences to uncertainty. We offer empirical evidence that proactive preferences influence farmers' decisions alongside reactive preferences ...
Jill Fitzsimmons   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

David Marsden's Comparative and Theoretical Craft: Signposts to a Better World of Work

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT David Marsden enriched and extended the field of employment relations with his interdisciplinary and comparative practice. This introduction to the special issue honouring his work examines the nature of David's contribution and analyses his influence on employment relations and adjacent fields.
Sarah Ashwin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Between neo-revisionist neoclassical realism and pragmatism. The foreign policy of the Likud party under Benjamin Netanyahu

open access: yesSprawy Międzynarodowe, 2019
Neo-revisionism is a term proposed by Ilan Peleg and Paul Shaum for the philosophy originated by Menachem Begin in 1977 and kept by Yitzhak Shamir and Benjamin Netanyahu.
Paweł Pokrzywiński
doaj   +1 more source

Envisioning the Future of Work: From Ideas to Reforms

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Two different theoretical perspectives concerning technology and the future of work are examined. One is linked to mainstream economics, whereas the other is associated with critical (‘post‐work’) discourse. Ideas about work—its nature and impacts on well‐being—matter in both perspectives.
David A. Spencer
wiley   +1 more source

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