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A Review of Kuhnian and Lakatosian “Explanations” in Economics

In the last few decades the influence on economics of the ideas of T. Kuhn and I. Lakatos was considerable. The increasing use of terms like “paradigms” and “scientific research programmes” in almost every field of economics, is indicative of the ...
Karayiannis, Anastassios, Drakopoulos, Stavros A.   +1 more
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Topological Properties of International Commodity Market: How Uncertainty Affects the Linkages?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study aims to explore the network topology of the international commodity market by examining the interconnections among 21 commodity futures across various categories, including energy, precious and industrial metals, and agriculture. We analyze the market structure of these commodity futures under both low and high uncertainty conditions
Ibrahim Yagli, Bayram Deviren
wiley   +1 more source

Aligning labour force perceptions to job attraction, satisfaction and retention strategies in horticulture: A data-driven empirical study for Australian banana industry. [PDF]

PLoS One
Roy M, Akbar D, Rajapaksa D, Rahman A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Efficiency and Technology Gap in European Apple Production—A Metafrontier Model for Germany, Italy, and Poland

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT EU member states have exhibited varying rates of apple production growth. Technical efficiency (TE) estimation is suitable for identifying best‐practice farm performance. This study examined whether the development of the apple sector in Germany, Italy, and Poland was influenced by production efficiency, access to technology, as well as ...
Anika Muder, Jakub Staniszewski
wiley   +1 more source

Social media promotion improves job market outcomes. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Qiu J, Chen Y, Cohn A, Roth AE.
europepmc   +1 more source

Computer simulations, mathematics and economics [PDF]

Economists lise different kinds of computer simulation. However, there is little attention on the theory of simulation, which is considered either a technology or an extension of mathematical theory or, else, a way of modelling that is alternative to ...
Fontana Magda
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
wiley   +1 more source

Use of Real-World Evidence in Health Technology Assessments of Non-Oncology Rare Disease Therapies. [PDF]

J Mark Access Health Policy
Blandy O, Lembo P, Folorunso R, Myren KJ, Chevrou-Severac H, Thomas SK.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Origins and Development of the Trend towards Value-Free Economics

The vast majority of pre-Classical and of many Classical economists thought that it was natural to incorporate value judgments and norms in their economic reasoning.
Drakopoulos, Stavros A.
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source