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Economic activity during extreme events

Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.
Abstract Although extreme weather events, natural disasters or infrastructure failures potentially have important economic effects, quantifying these effects over small areas and fine time intervals has been difficult because of the fairly coarse scales available in most data sources. This paper surveys the use of relatively new and finely grained data
John W. Galbraith
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Grounding Intelligibility, Safeguarding Mystery: A Neoclassical Reading of Ernan McMullin’s Legacy

Religions
This paper suggests a “neoclassical” reading of Ernan McMullin’s thought on science and theology. McMullin’s Augustinian convictions on God and the God–world relation coincide with those of some prominent scholars from two renowned schools of neo ...
Amerigo Barzaghi
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The Design of Financial Systems: Towards a Synthesis of Function and Structure [PDF]

This paper proposes a functional approach to designing and managing the financial systems of countries, regions, firms, households, and other entities. It is a synthesis of the neoclassical, neo-institutional, and behavioral perspectives.
Robert C. Merton, Zvi Bodie
core  

How religion mediates the fertility response to maternity benefits

Economic Inquiry, EarlyView.
Abstract Do religious beliefs affect responses to fertility incentives? We examine a 1982 maternity benefits expansion in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in a difference‐in‐differences framework with similar East European countries as comparisons. To isolate the importance of religion, we compare women who did and did not grow up in religious households ...
Elizabeth Brainerd, Olga Malkova
wiley   +1 more source

The Strength of the Veblenian Critique of Neoclassical Economics

, 2009
More than one hundred years ago, Thorstein Veblen wrote a powerful critique of neoclassical economics that castigated the discipline for turning the individual into a “lightning calculator of pleasures and pains, who oscillates like a homogeneous globule”
Semov, Svetoslav I.
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The Heterogeneous Impact of Children on Maternal Employment: Evidence From East and West Germany

Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the causal effect of fertility on female labour market outcomes in East and West Germany. We use twin births as an exogenous variation for family size. Our results suggest a negative relationship between the number of children and maternal labour market outcomes.
Johannes Köckeis, Sven Stöwhase
wiley   +1 more source

The Concept of Rational Behavior and the Problem of Learning from Error in Neoclassical Economics: With a view of the Austrian’s Critiques

برنامه‌ریزی و بودجه, 2021
The concept of rational behavior has a significant role in economics and its analysis of market economy and general equilibrium. On the other hand, there exists a logical relation between limits of rationality and learning from error. With explaining the
Masoud Mohammadi Alamuti
doaj  

Some Economic Results of the Civilizing Mission [PDF]

This paper proposes three tasks. It briefly delineates the character of the civilizing mission and the interests it served, especially the colonization of Asia and Africa.
Alam, M. Shahid
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Irish regional GDP since independence

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper constructs the first long‐run estimates of Irish regional gross domestic product (GDP) over the twentieth century and traces the relative economic performance of Ireland's regions since independence. Using an array of data sources available at a county level, output in agriculture, industry, and services in benchmark census years is
Alan de Bromhead, Seán Kenny
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Putting the individual in the context of the organization: A Carnegie perspective on decision-making. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2023
Levinthal DA, Newark DA.
europepmc   +1 more source