Individual differences in musical ability among adults with no music training. [PDF]
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove), 2023 Correia AI +5 more
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Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class Revisited: Implications for Optimal Income Taxation [PDF]
Almost all previous studies on public policy under relative consumption concerns have ignored the role of leisure for status comparisons. Inspired by Veblen (1899), this paper considers a two-type optimal income tax model, where people care about their ...
Aronsson, Thomas +1 more
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Economic History or History of Economics? A Review Essay on Sylvia Nasar’s Grand Pursuit: the Story of Economic Genius [PDF]
In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar’s long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is really an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists’ stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar’s
Orley C. Ashenfelter
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The Economists' Quartet - A Game, not a Theory [PDF]
In this paper we introduce a new card game called The Economists' Quartet. Its aim is twofold: it is designed to make students interested in the life of contemporary and former economists and their most important ideas, as well as be an entertaining ...
Gruescu, Sandra, Thomas, Niels Peter
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Education as a positional good for marked-based reforms of state schooling: paper presented at the ECER 2000-conference in Edinburgh 20 - 23 September 2000 [PDF]
Analyses of market-based reforms of state schooling have occasionally acknowledged positional elements in parental demand, but none has fully examined their nature and implications.
Adnett, Nick, Davies, Peter
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Weather and nest cavity characteristics influence fecundity in mountain chickadees. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Norris AR, Martin K, Cockle KL.
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Populated Places and Conspicuous Consumption: High Population Density Cues Predict Consumers' Luxury-Linked Brand Attitudes. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 Otterbring T, Folwarczny M, Tan LKL.
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Veblen Goods and Srinanagesh & Bradburd(2001)
The Journal of Business Education, 2018 openaire +1 more source
Interpersonal Effects in Consumption: Evidence from the Automobile Purchases of Neighbors [PDF]
This study analyzes the automobile purchase behavior of all residents of two Finnish provinces over several years. It finds that a consumer's purchases are strongly influenced by the purchases of his neighbors, particularly purchases in the recent past ...
Mark Grinblatt +2 more
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Soil carbon:nitrogen ratios explain successional trajectories in the mycorrhizal makeup of south-temperate humid forests. [PDF]
EcologyLusk CH +7 more
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