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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:71
2019-09-28T04:31:03Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/71/
Scientific Revolution? A Farewell to EconWPA. MPRA is welcome.
Harin, Alexander
C7 - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory
A1 - General Economics
D81 - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
A new approach is presented. It is based on a generalization of a breach of a term of contract and on the economic uncertainty principle. Problems, which can be solved, research fields, which can be augmented or created, and fields of applications in practical economy are reviewed. The role of information media is described.
2006-10-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/71/1/MPRA_paper_71.pdf
Harin, Alexander (2006): Scientific Revolution? A Farewell to EconWPA. MPRA is welcome.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:105
2019-09-30T13:34:06Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/105/
Scientific Revolution? A Farewell to EconWPA. MPRA is welcome.
Harin, Alexander
C7 - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory
D81 - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
A1 - General Economics
A new approach is presented. It is based on a generalization of a breach of a term of contract and on the economic uncertainty principle. Problems, which can be solved, research fields, which can be augmented or created, and fields of applications in practical economy are reviewed. The role of information media is described.
2006-10-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/105/1/MPRA_paper_105.pdf
Harin, Alexander (2006): Scientific Revolution? A Farewell to EconWPA. MPRA is welcome.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:106
2019-10-01T04:44:44Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/106/
The role of professional economists in the financial markets
Porzecanski, Arturo C.
A11 - Role of Economics ; Role of Economists ; Market for Economists
D53 - Financial Markets
Economists have always been interested in the workings of the financial markets, but most of them neither seek nor get the opportunity to work in a financial institution as a professional economist. Here we detail how (a minority of) economists became involved in the financial markets, and what that professional involvement has entailed, in order to come up with implications for economists who are considering working in the financial markets as well as for the universities that provide training for future economists.
2006-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/106/1/MPRA_paper_106.pdf
Porzecanski, Arturo C. (2006): The role of professional economists in the financial markets.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:415
2019-09-27T15:19:48Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/415/
Is Macroeconomics a Science?
Barnett, William A.
B41 - Economic Methodology
A11 - Role of Economics ; Role of Economists ; Market for Economists
C00 - General
B20 - General
A10 - General
This paper was written as the first draft of the invited Foreword for the book, Money and the Economy, by Apostolos Serletis. The paper provides a critical view of those areas in which methodology in economics deviates from that in the physical sciences, provides examples and illustrations of those deviations, and emphasizes those areas of and approaches to economic research that most closely correspond with the nature of research in the physical sciences.
2006-01-30
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/415/1/MPRA_paper_415.pdf
Barnett, William A. (2006): Is Macroeconomics a Science?
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:622
2019-10-03T12:09:29Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/622/
Gender disparities in education - needs community participation
Pandey, Adya Prasad
I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being
A1 - General Economics
A19 - Other
Education is the most important instrument for human resource development. Education of girls therefore, occupies top priority amongst various measures taken to improve the status of the girl child. The government has resolved to make the right to free and compulsory elementary education a Fundamental Right and to enforce it through suitable statutory measures. Universalisation of Elementary Education (UEE) has been accepted as a national goal since 1950. In order to achieve the goal, concerted efforts have been made and as a result, the elementary education system in India has become one of the largest in the world. The primary education enrolment rates of girls have a positive impact on economic well-being of women, their families and society in the long run. Since the mother carries the main burden of looking after the health of her child, how well she does this task depends on the knowledge and confidence that she gains from education.
2006-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/622/1/MPRA_paper_622.pdf
Pandey, Adya Prasad (2006): Gender disparities in education - needs community participation.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:635
2019-10-28T18:16:21Z
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:767
2019-09-26T14:07:22Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/767/
Evolving Economics: Synthesis
Stanton, Angela A.
D01 - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
A10 - General
This paper reviews the literature of behavioral-, experimental-, and neuro-economics research with the ultimatum and the dictator games.
“One may wonder whether Adam Smith, were he working today, would not be a neuroeconomi[st]”
Aldo Rustichini 2005
2006-04-26
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/767/1/MPRA_paper_767.pdf
Stanton, Angela A. (2006): Evolving Economics: Synthesis.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:770
2019-10-08T14:25:01Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/770/
A Flexibilidade das Estruturas Curriculares Portuguesas Enquanto Implicação do Processo de Bolonha nas Licenciaturas em Economia: uma comparação com a Europa
Monteiro, Henrique
Ferreira Lopes, Alexandra
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
A22 - Undergraduate
In this article we perform a comparative analysis of the study plans of Economics undergraduate degrees between Portugal and the best European institutions, for the school year 2004-2005. The analysis indicates a lower flexibility of Portuguese undergraduate courses, with a greater proportion of required disciplines and less electives offered. The study provides significant evidence on the essential courses to include in the study plans of future undergraduate Economics degrees in Portugal, with a reduced length of three years and about their required or optional nature.
2005-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/770/1/MPRA_paper_770.pdf
Monteiro, Henrique and Ferreira Lopes, Alexandra (2005): A Flexibilidade das Estruturas Curriculares Portuguesas Enquanto Implicação do Processo de Bolonha nas Licenciaturas em Economia: uma comparação com a Europa. Published in: Cadernos de Economia No. 76 (September 2006): pp. 54-63.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:771
2019-09-26T08:45:36Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/771/
A Comparison of the Undergraduate Economics Major in Europe and in the United States
Monteiro, Henrique
Ferreira Lopes, Alexandra
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
A22 - Undergraduate
In this work we compare the undergraduate Economics majors and their underlying structure in the top-ranked Economics departments of Europe and the United States. We identify the fundamental courses usually included in an Economics major by means of a cluster analysis. We further distinguish between those courses which are required and those which are usually offered as electives. We find striking differences between the USA and Europe, especially regarding the nature of the main electives offered. The insights from this comparative study could be especially useful for the ongoing restructuring of undergraduate Economics majors in some European countries caused by the Bologna Process.
2006-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/771/1/MPRA_paper_771.pdf
Monteiro, Henrique and Ferreira Lopes, Alexandra (2006): A Comparison of the Undergraduate Economics Major in Europe and in the United States. Published in: International Review of Economics Education , Vol. 6, No. 2 (2007): pp. 9-26.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1440
2019-09-26T17:15:52Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1440/
Endogenous Network Formation In the Laboratory
Celen, Bogachan
Hyndman, Kyle
C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
C92 - Laboratory, Group Behavior
C73 - Stochastic and Dynamic Games ; Evolutionary Games ; Repeated Games
A14 - Sociology of Economics
D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
This paper provides an experimental test of a theory of endogenous network formation. A group of subjects face a decision problem under
uncertainty. The subjects are endowed with a private information about the fundamentals of the problem, and they are supposed to make a
decision one after the other. The key feature of the experiment is that a subject can observe the decisions of the preceding subjects by
forming links. A link is costly, yet it enables a subject to observe previous decisions of those to whom he is linked. We show that subjects respond to changes in the information structure and the cost of link formation in the expected manner. However, we also show that behavior systematically deviates from the Bayesian benchmark as subjects form more links than theory predicts. Subjects also exhibit a tendency to conform rather than follow their own information. In order to explain this pattern, we provide an econometric model that posits that subjects care about their relative standing in the group. We show that the modified model provides a better fit than a standard QRE.
2006-12-15
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1440/1/MPRA_paper_1440.pdf
Celen, Bogachan and Hyndman, Kyle (2006): Endogenous Network Formation In the Laboratory.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1772
2019-09-27T09:31:18Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1772/
El rompecabezas de la investigación económica en el Caribe colombiano 1996-2005 (in Spanish)
Toro González, Daniel
Espinosa Espinosa, Aarón
Quintero Otero, Jorge
B00 - General
A10 - General
R10 - General
In this article it is realized an inventory of the production of academic and scientific articles about economics in Colombian Caribbean Coast in the last 10 years. The document analyses the scientific production in economics realized in the Caribbean Coast and about the Caribbean Coast, in order to establish a map of the regional economic research and realize an approximation to the accumulated production and the general tendencies of the publications. To accomplish this goal, it was used the JEL (Journal of Economic Literature) Classification System as a platform for completing the puzzle by topics. Among other aspects, the study shows that three non-university institutions are responsible for the 67% of the regional academic production about economics. 40% of total considered production was realized by the 10% of the Caribbean Coast researches. 51% of the JEL Classifications have not being approached by region researches. Finally, there are few institutions with a systemic and deep job in a specific topic, which is why there are many possibilities of specialization for institution that have not defined its research lines and want to be pioneers in some economic analysis topic.
2005-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1772/1/MPRA_paper_1772.pdf
Toro González, Daniel and Espinosa Espinosa, Aarón and Quintero Otero, Jorge (2005): El rompecabezas de la investigación económica en el Caribe colombiano 1996-2005 (in Spanish). Published in: Economía & Región , Vol. Vol.2, No. No.4 (December 2006): pp. 9-44.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1959
2019-09-30T06:02:11Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1959/
Principle of uncertain future and utility
Harin, Alexander
D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
A1 - General Economics
E22 - Investment ; Capital ; Intangible Capital ; Capacity
G22 - Insurance ; Insurance Companies ; Actuarial Studies
C7 - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory
The principle of uncertain future: the probability of a future event contains a degree of (hidden) uncertainty. As a result, this uncertainty (in a sense, similar to vibrations, fluctuations) pushes the probability value back from the bounds to the middle of its range (from ~100% and ~0% to the middle probability values). In other words, the real values of high probabilities are lower than the preliminarily determined ones. Conversely, the real values of low probabilities are higher than the preliminarily determined ones. This result provides the uniform solution of a number of fundamental problems: the underweighting of high and the overweighting of low probabilities, the Allais paradox, risk aversion, loss aversion, the Ellsberg paradox, the equity premium puzzle, etc. The principle and its consequences can be applied in the fields of banking, investment, insurance, trade, industry, planning and forecasting. Explanations of the principle and examples of solution of three types of basic utility problems are provided.
2007-02-28
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1959/1/MPRA_paper_1959.pdf
Harin, Alexander (2007): Principle of uncertain future and utility.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2290
2019-10-23T17:46:24Z
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2369
2019-09-26T19:27:34Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2369/
Evolving Economics: Synthesis
Stanton, Angela
D01 - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
A10 - General
This paper reviews the literature of behavioral-, experimental-, and neuro-economics research with the ultimatum and the dictator games.
“One may wonder whether Adam Smith, were he working today, would not be a neuroeconomi[st]”
Aldo Rustichini 2005
2006-04-24
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2369/1/MPRA_paper_2369.pdf
Stanton, Angela (2006): Evolving Economics: Synthesis.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2549
2019-09-27T12:08:04Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2549/
Friedrich List'in Bebek Endüstriler Tezi
Kibritçioğlu, Aykut
A11 - Role of Economics ; Role of Economists ; Market for Economists
F13 - Trade Policy ; International Trade Organizations
O10 - General
After presenting a broad review of Friedrich List's infant industry argument (Erziehungszollargument) departing from collected works of List, this study aims to compare his ideas with that of Hamilton, Say, Mill, Bastable and Kemp. It underlines the restricted theoretical validity of the argument in modern terms of economics.
1996
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2549/1/MPRA_paper_2549.pdf
Kibritçioğlu, Aykut (1996): Friedrich List'in Bebek Endüstriler Tezi. Published in: Uluslararası (Makro)İktisat (1996): pp. 49-83.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2595
2019-09-27T13:02:40Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2595/
Adam Smith'in "Uluslararası İktisat Kuramı"na Katkıları Hakkında
Kibritçioğlu, Aykut
B12 - Classical (includes Adam Smith)
F10 - General
A11 - Role of Economics ; Role of Economists ; Market for Economists
Adam Smith is generally ignored as a trade theorist in textbooks of international economics because of the common belief that he only confirmed the rule of absolute advantages to explain structure of foreign trade. However, his vent-for-surplus approach may be interpreted as a pioneering study which stresses the importance of economies-of-scale in explaining the structure of trade. This short paper addresses to the undeniable influence of Smith's concepts such as "extent of the market", "division of labor", "improved dexterity in every particular workman" and "simple inventions coming from workman" on trade theory.
1994
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2595/1/MPRA_paper_2595.pdf
Kibritçioğlu, Aykut (1994): Adam Smith'in "Uluslararası İktisat Kuramı"na Katkıları Hakkında. Published in: Uluslararası (Makro)İktisat (1996): pp. 31-38.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2618
2019-10-04T04:37:53Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2618/
Value and Marx: why it matters
Freeman, Alan
B14 - Socialist ; Marxist
B24 - Socialist ; Marxist ; Sraffian
B51 - Socialist ; Marxian ; Sraffian
B40 - General
A1 - General Economics
B12 - Classical (includes Adam Smith)
B00 - General
B50 - General
This is the English version of ‘Valore e Marx: Perche sono importanti’ which appeared in Vasopollo, L (2002) (ed) ‘Un Vecchio Falso Problema: La Transformazione dei valori in prezzi nel Capital di Marx’, Roma: Laboratoria per la critica sociale.
It was presented at the May 2002 conference organised by the Laboratorio per la critica sociale in Rome.
It summarises the debate to this point on the temporal and simultaneous approaches to value and on the alleged inconsistencies in Marx’s approach.
Keywords: TSSI, MELT, value, Marx, price, profit rate, Okishio, non-equilibrium, equilibrium, money, sraffa
2002-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2618/1/MPRA_paper_2618.pdf
Freeman, Alan (2002): Value and Marx: why it matters. Published in: Proteo No. 2001-2 (2002): pp. 52-61.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2730
2019-09-27T09:06:48Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2730/
Is Fairness in the Eye of the Beholder? An Impartial Spectator Analysis of Justice
Konow, James
D61 - Allocative Efficiency ; Cost-Benefit Analysis
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
A popular sentiment is that fairness is inexorably subjective and incapable of being determined by objective standards. This study, on the other hand, seeks to establish evidence on unbiased justice and to propose and demonstrate a general approach for measuring impartial views empirically. Most normative justice theories associate impartiality with limited information and with consensus, i.e., a high level of agreement about what is right. In both the normative and positive literature, information is usually seen as the raw material for self-serving bias and disagreement. In contrast, this paper proposes a type of impartiality that is associated with a high level of information. The crucial distinction is the emphasis here on the views of impartial spectators, rather than implicated stakeholders. I describe the quasi-spectator method, i.e., an empirical means to approximate the views of impartial spectators that is based on a direct relationship between information and consensus, whereby consensus refers to the level of agreement among actual evaluators of real world situations. Results of surveys provide evidence on quasi-spectator views and support this approach as a means to elicit moral preferences. By establishing a relationship between consensus and impartiality, this paper seeks to help lay an empirical foundation for welfare analysis, social choice theory and practical policy applications.
2006-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2730/1/MPRA_paper_2730.pdf
Konow, James (2006): Is Fairness in the Eye of the Beholder? An Impartial Spectator Analysis of Justice. Published in: Social Choice and Welfare , Vol. 33, No. 1 (June 2009): pp. 101-127.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2881
2019-09-28T04:55:11Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2881/
On the Robustness of Alternative Rankings Methodologies: Australian and New Zealand Economics Departments, 1988-2002
Sinha, Dipendra
Macri, Joseph
McAleer, Michael
A14 - Sociology of Economics
Just as friendly arguments based on an ignorance of facts eventually led to the creation of the definitive Guinness Book of World Records, any argument about university rankings has seemingly been a problem without a solution. To state the obvious, alternative rankings methodologies can and do lead to different rankings. This paper evaluates the robustness of rankings of Australian and New Zealand economics teaching departments for 1988-2002 and 1996-2002 using alternative rankings methodologies, and compares the results with the rankings obtained by Macri and Sinha (2006). In the overall mean rankings for both 1988-2006 and 1996-2002, the University of Melbourne is ranked first, followed by UWA and ANU.
2007-02-23
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2881/1/MPRA_paper_2881.pdf
Sinha, Dipendra and Macri, Joseph and McAleer, Michael (2007): On the Robustness of Alternative Rankings Methodologies: Australian and New Zealand Economics Departments, 1988-2002.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2885
2019-10-03T04:47:57Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2885/
How Much Influence Do Economics Professors Have on Rankings? The Case of Australia and New Zealand
Sinha, Dipendra
Macri, Joseph
A14 - Sociology of Economics
This study ranks Australian and New Zealand economics teaching departments on the basis of the research productivity of its economics professors in economics teaching departments using quality adjusted journal articles listed on the ECONLIT database for the periods 1988-2002 and for 1996-2002. The per capita research productivity of professors is highest for University of Melbourne, University of Western Australia and University of Canterbury. For a number of economics departments, the per capita research productivity is lower than the research productivity of all faculty members, using a number of criteria for 1988-2002 and 1996-2002. These universities are University of Auckland, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Griffith University and Macquarie University.
2007-01-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2885/1/MPRA_paper_2885.pdf
Sinha, Dipendra and Macri, Joseph (2007): How Much Influence Do Economics Professors Have on Rankings? The Case of Australia and New Zealand.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3049
2019-09-28T14:45:16Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3049/
Individual learning: theory formation, and feedback in a complex task
Novarese, Marco
Lanteri, Alessandro
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
D83 - Search ; Learning ; Information and Knowledge ; Communication ; Belief ; Unawareness
C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
We present an experiment for the study of learning in a complex task which requires both memorisation and the ability to process several pieces of information. The outcome of an action, for which immediate feedback is given, depends on the context (i.e. one of thirty-two sequences of three features) which is know and visible to the subjects. Subjects develop some theories of the experimental world, which result in the stable repetition of some actions in response to certain conditions. These theories are modified after feedback, however mistaken answers are repeated and correct answers abandoned. During the game, theories become more effective (i.e. they afford more correct answers and a higher score), yet the improvements slow down. The theories follow from only a portion of the available information and when they become successful (i.e. towards the end of the experiment) the subjects start refining them to include a larger subset of the information, this causes more stable mistakes.
2007-04-26
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3049/1/MPRA_paper_3049.pdf
Novarese, Marco and Lanteri, Alessandro (2007): Individual learning: theory formation, and feedback in a complex task.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3054
2019-09-30T19:31:33Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D41:4131:413132
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3054/
How to Reduce the Risk Of Banking Problems
Deabes, Tosson
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
This paper reviews the existing evidence on the origins of banking crises, provides new results on the impact of government bank ownership on financial stability, and discusses policy options that can prevent and mitigate the consequences of banking crises. We find that government ownership of banks increases the likelihood and fiscal cost of crises; albeit the latter result is weak. Among the policies recommended to minimize the occurrence of crises, we highlight the importance of sound macroeconomic policies, adequate financial infrastructure, incentive compatible regulations, and limiting government interference in the banking sector.
2003-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3054/1/MPRA_paper_3054.pdf
Deabes, Tosson (2003): How to Reduce the Risk Of Banking Problems.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3066
2019-09-27T05:06:34Z
7374617475733D707562
7375626A656374733D41:4132:413232
7375626A656374733D45:4532:453234
7375626A656374733D41:4131:413131
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3066/
La Economia y Las Uvas de la ira
Mourao, Paulo
A22 - Undergraduate
E24 - Employment ; Unemployment ; Wages ; Intergenerational Income Distribution ; Aggregate Human Capital ; Aggregate Labor Productivity
A11 - Role of Economics ; Role of Economists ; Market for Economists
Students may remark that, “Economics are not real.” This work suggests how Economics may help us to understand our world better. Steinbeck’s well-known novel, The Grapes of Wrath, tried to relate basic economic concepts to the events portrayed in the book to show that both Economics and Literature are useful for explaining the Great Depression’s complexity, specifically the complexity associated with workers migrating from state to state. This should make this text stimulating for some introductory undergraduate courses, suggesting market laws and other useful basic notions such as imperfect information, competitive markets or collective bargaining.
2005
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3066/1/MPRA_paper_3066.pdf
Mourao, Paulo (2005): La Economia y Las Uvas de la ira. Published in: Cuadernos de Economia (Colombia) , Vol. XXIV, No. 43 (2005): pp. 65-81.
es
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3140
2019-09-29T01:51:53Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D4A:4A34:4A3431
7375626A656374733D41:4131:413132
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3140/
Positive self-image in tournaments
Santos-Pinto, Luís
J41 - Labor Contracts
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
This paper analyzes the implications of worker overestimation of productivity
for firms in which incentives take the form of tournaments. Each
worker overestimates his productivity but is aware of the bias in his opponent’s
self-assessment. The manager of the firm, on the other hand, correctly
assesses workers’ productivities and self-beliefs when setting tournament
prizes. The paper shows that, under a variety of circumstances, firms
make higher profits when workers have positive self-image than if workers
do not. By contrast, workers’ welfare declines due to their own misguided
choices.
2003-11-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3140/1/MPRA_paper_3140.pdf
Santos-Pinto, Luís (2003): Positive self-image in tournaments.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3141
2019-09-29T07:19:20Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D4A:4A34:4A3431
7375626A656374733D41:4131:413132
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3141/
Positive self-image and incentives in organizations
Santos-Pinto, Luís
J41 - Labor Contracts
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
This paper investigates the implications of individuals’ mistaken beliefs
of their abilities on incentives in organizations using the principal-agent
model of moral hazard. The paper shows that if effort is observable, then
an agent’s mistaken beliefs about own ability are always favorable to the
principal. However, if effort is unobservable, then an agent’s mistaken beliefs
about own ability can be either favorable or unfavorable to the principal.
The paper provides conditions under which an agent’s over estimation about
own ability is favorable to the principal when effort is unobservable. Finally,
the paper shows that workers’ mistaken beliefs about their coworkers’ abilities
make interdependent incentive schemes more attractive to firms than
individualistic incentive schemes.
2003-09-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3141/1/MPRA_paper_3141.pdf
Santos-Pinto, Luís (2003): Positive self-image and incentives in organizations.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3144
2019-09-29T04:51:47Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D4A:4A34:4A3431
7375626A656374733D43:4339:433933
7375626A656374733D41:4131:413132
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3144/
Forecasts of relative performance in tournaments: evidence from the field
Santos-Pinto, Luís
Park, Young-Joon
J41 - Labor Contracts
C93 - Field Experiments
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
This paper uses a field experiment to investigate the quality of individuals' forecasts of relative performance in tournaments. We ask players in luck-based (poker) and skill-based (chess) tournaments to make point forecasts of rank. The main finding of the paper is that players' forecasts in both types of tournaments are biased towards overestimation of relative performance. However, the size of the biases found is not as large as the ones often reported in the psychology literature. We also find support for the "unskilled and unaware hypothesis" in chess: high skilled chess players make better forecasts than low skilled chess players. Finally, we find that chess players' forecasts of relative performance are not efficient.
2004-06-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3144/1/MPRA_paper_3144.pdf
Santos-Pinto, Luís and Park, Young-Joon (2004): Forecasts of relative performance in tournaments: evidence from the field.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3146
2019-09-28T20:12:51Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D44:4438:443831
7375626A656374733D41:4131:413132
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3146/
Asymmetries in information processing in a decision theory framework
Santos-Pinto, Luís
D81 - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
Research in psychology suggests that some individuals are more sensitive to
positive than to negative information while others are more sensitive to negative
rather than positive information. I take these cognitive positive-negative
asymmetries in information processing to a Bayesian decision-theory model and
explore its consequences in terms of decisions and payoffs. I show that in monotone
decision problems economic agents with more positive-responsive information
structures are always better off, ex-ante, when they face problems where
payoffs are relatively more sensitive to the action chosen when the state of nature
is favorable.
2003-01-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3146/1/MPRA_paper_3146.pdf
Santos-Pinto, Luís (2003): Asymmetries in information processing in a decision theory framework.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3221
2019-10-04T16:50:05Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D4D:4D33:4D3331
7375626A656374733D45:4535:453538
7375626A656374733D41:4131:413130
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3221/
Coordonatele auditului in marketingul financiar-bancar - situatia din Romania
Dura, Codruta
Driga, Imola
M31 - Marketing
E58 - Central Banks and Their Policies
A10 - General
The general term of internal audit was established in relation to the financial accounting activity; this notion was gradually replaced by a new approach which expands the sphere of the audit so that the preoccupation for the future is very important for any audit activity. If forming and consolidating a favorable image of the bank among service consumers represents a marketing problem, then solving it requires numerous instruments from the marketing policies; the most important role is attributed to the audit. The final goal of the marketing audit is drawing up a table regarding the performances and the efficiency of the bank, in relation to the risks involved by financial institutions and its operations. In this respect, specialists in banking management have come up with different models of calculations and rating systems in their trials to obtain the most accurate scan of the “state of health” of the banks, and moreover in their trials to identify the institutions which face financial and operational difficulties leading to bankruptcy.
The uniform bank rating system is a specific instrument for the supervising activity and has its origins in the USA ; it has later been borrowed by German, Italian, Great Britain authorities, which use influential components in their banking system; later on, their system was adopted by most central banks within the European Union. In Romania, the uniform bank rating system has been implemented by N.B.R. (the National Bank of Romania) since 2000; the specific components that were analyzed are: the capital adequacy (C), the quality of assets (A), the management (M), profitability (P), liquidities (L) and sensitivity (S) starting from the year 2005. For short, this system is called CAMPL. The evaluation of these specific elements represents an important criterion for establishing a compound rating, which means assigning scores to each bank. The compound rating for the banking system is established based on economic – financial indicators and prudence indicators.
2007-04-17
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3221/1/MPRA_paper_3221.pdf
Dura, Codruta and Driga, Imola (2007): Coordonatele auditului in marketingul financiar-bancar - situatia din Romania.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3340
2019-10-01T22:13:26Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D41:4131:413131
7375626A656374733D41:4131:413132
7375626A656374733D43:4330:433032
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3340/
Is Economics Entering its Post-Witchcraft Era?
Potgieter, Petrus H.
Rosinger, Elemér E.
A11 - Role of Economics ; Role of Economists ; Market for Economists
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
C02 - Mathematical Methods
Recently, an awareness is emerging in economics about the fact that important problems are not solvable algorithmically, that is, by any finite number of steps. This statement can be made mathematically exact and this paper reviews the contributions that have been made in this regard, related to standard topics in economics.
2007-05-25
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3340/1/MPRA_paper_3340.pdf
Potgieter, Petrus H. and Rosinger, Elemér E. (2007): Is Economics Entering its Post-Witchcraft Era?
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3701
2019-10-02T04:11:03Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D41:4131:413130
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3701/
Cooperation as self-interested reciprocity in the Centipede
Farina, Francesco
Sbriglia, Patrizia
A10 - General
Cooperation is a pervasive social phenomenon but more often than not economic theories have little to say about its causes and consequences. In this paper, we explore the hypothesis that cooperative behaviour might be motivated by purely selfish interest when the “social” payoff in a game is increasing. We report the results of a series of experiments on the centipede game. The experiments are organized in two subsequent steps. Subjects first participate in a 2-period trust game, randomly matched with unknown partners. We apply the strategy method in order to elicit their social preferences. On the basis of their pre-game behaviour, individuals are divided into three main social groups: selfish individuals, pure altruists and reciprocators. At the second step of the experiment, subjects play a repeated 6-move centipede game with increasing final payoff. Each subject plays twice in a low stake and in a high centipede game, and he/she is informed about his/her co-player social preferences. We identify the origin of cooperation within homogeneous and heterogeneous social groups.
2007-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3701/1/MPRA_paper_3701.pdf
Farina, Francesco and Sbriglia, Patrizia (2007): Cooperation as self-interested reciprocity in the Centipede.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3733
2019-09-29T06:30:45Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D4F:4F31
7375626A656374733D41:4131:413130
7375626A656374733D42:4234:423431
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3733/
The Fundamental Theory of Knowledge
Khumalo, Bhekuzulu
O1 - Economic Development
A10 - General
B41 - Economic Methodology
This paper summarizes the theory of knowledge from the book of the same title by
the same author. The paper begins by asking, and answering, what knowledge is. In searching for precise definitions it rids itself of the ambiguous term of infinity. The seven main laws of knowledge are laid out and discussed. The theory is an economic theory and as such must mention how people choose to seek knowledge. Knowledge is treated like any other commodity or product such as an apple, copper or a television set. Choices must be made in order to acquire knowledge. The tool used is the same tool used for analyzing other commodities - marginal utility analysis. The paper moves on to develop a working function of knowledge. This function helps to give a clear picture of how knowledge gains and loses occur within a society. The function leads to an understanding of critical levels of knowledge as well as the term obsolete knowledge. The paper introduces the term ‘negative’ knowledge and demonstrates how time is lost and gained within the context of knowledge. The sum of knowledge is the last major issue discussed in this paper and it can be considered the ‘signature’ of the theory. The concept that two plus two is not always four differentiates the commodity knowledge from other commodities and products. Finally the implications of this unique property of the commodity knowledge are discussed with the aim of demonstrating how the world would end up as a better place for all with food, shelter, and security for all.
2006-12-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3733/1/MPRA_paper_3733.pdf
Khumalo, Bhekuzulu (2006): The Fundamental Theory of Knowledge.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3734
2019-10-02T21:31:36Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D42:4234:423431
7375626A656374733D4F:4F32
7375626A656374733D41:4131
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3734/
Measuring a Society’s Knowledge Base
Khumalo, Bhekuzulu
B41 - Economic Methodology
O2 - Development Planning and Policy
A1 - General Economics
The quest to measure knowledge effectively will in no doubt lead to better knowledge policies of governments around the world in both developing and developed countries. This paper endeavours to seta sound theoretical base for measuring knowledge and does this by demonstrating that existing tools used by economists for measuring knowledge are largely self contradictory, they contradict existing theory. Knowledge to be measured effectively we must give knowledge its own units like weight and length have their own units, only then can we say how much knowledge one needs to carry out a particular task.
2006-10-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3734/1/MPRA_paper_3734.pdf
Khumalo, Bhekuzulu (2006): Measuring a Society’s Knowledge Base.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3735
2019-09-30T06:59:35Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D4F:4F33:4F3333
7375626A656374733D41:4131:413130
7375626A656374733D42:4234:423431
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3735/
Point X and the Economics of Knowledge
Khumalo, Bhekuzulu
O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences ; Diffusion Processes
A10 - General
B41 - Economic Methodology
In this paper the theory developed in the paper �The Fundamental Theory of Knowledge�
by the same author is developed further. This paper looks at point X, as it exists in the dimension that is called mthetho, the laws that govern the universe. Analyzing point X gives a more firm understanding of knowledge and its properties. The timelessness and independence of point X shall first be established and verified. The paper will eventually demonstrate that the timelessness and independence of this point X is what gives knowledge its power in terms of economics. The concepts developed in the paper. The Fundamental theory of Knowledge� are tested against this concept of timelessness and independence of point X, if a contradiction where to be found the theory would have serious contradictions, the paper proves that there are no contradictions. The principles of negative and obsolete knowledge are discussed in relation to point X. The laws of knowledge are tested against point X, against the timelessness and independence of point X. The law of consistency, arguably the most powerful law in investigative knowledge is also discussed in relation to point X; again the paper establishes that there are no contradictions. The law of consistency demonstrates the importance of point X, and therefore knowledge in the economic reality of human beings. Finally the foundations of material progress are discussed in the paper again with point X
being the reference point.
2007-02-15
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3735/1/MPRA_paper_3735.pdf
Khumalo, Bhekuzulu (2007): Point X and the Economics of Knowledge.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3743
2019-09-28T03:56:02Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D4F:4F31
7375626A656374733D41:4131:413130
7375626A656374733D44:4438:443833
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3743/
The Fundamental Theory of Knowledge
Khumalo, Bhekuzulu
O1 - Economic Development
A10 - General
D83 - Search ; Learning ; Information and Knowledge ; Communication ; Belief ; Unawareness
This paper summarizes the theory of knowledge from the book of the same title by
the same author. The paper begins by asking, and answering, what knowledge is. In searching for precise definitions it rids itself of the ambiguous term of infinity. The seven main laws of knowledge are laid out and discussed. The theory is an economic theory and as such must mention how people choose to seek knowledge. Knowledge is treated like any other commodity or product such as an apple, copper or a television set. Choices must be made in order to acquire knowledge. The tool used is the same tool used for analyzing other commodities - marginal utility analysis. The paper moves on to develop a working function of knowledge. This function helps to give a clear picture of how knowledge gains and loses occur within a society. The function leads to an understanding of critical levels of knowledge as well as the term obsolete knowledge. The paper introduces the term ‘negative’ knowledge and demonstrates how time is lost and gained within the context of knowledge. The sum of knowledge is the last major issue discussed in this paper and it can be considered the ‘signature’ of the theory. The concept that two plus two is not always four differentiates the commodity knowledge from other commodities and products. Finally the implications of this unique property of the commodity knowledge are discussed with the aim of demonstrating how the world would end up as a better place for all with food, shelter, and security for all.
2006-12-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3743/1/MPRA_paper_3743.pdf
Khumalo, Bhekuzulu (2006): The Fundamental Theory of Knowledge.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3862
2019-09-26T22:30:31Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D42:4234:423439
7375626A656374733D42:4235:423533
7375626A656374733D41:4131:413132
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3862/
A Discussion on Empirical Micro-Bases of Hayek’s Methodological Individualism
Zhao, Liang
Zhu, Xian Chen
B49 - Other
B53 - Austrian
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
There are essential differences in ‘methodological individualism(MI)’ between neoclassic economics and Hayek’s theory. On basis of The Sensory Order, this paper shows relations between Hayek’s MI and it, the micro-bases of Hayek’s MI from contemporarily empirical disciplines, and some viewpoints verified by succeeding ones; then points out some questions that need to be answered henceforth between Hayek’s theory and interdisciplinary studies in modern economics. It is concluded that Hayek’s MI has its empirical micro-bases, and that his interdisciplinary exploration in the youth can help advance modern economics.
2007-06-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3862/1/MPRA_paper_3862.pdf
Zhao, Liang and Zhu, Xian Chen (2007): A Discussion on Empirical Micro-Bases of Hayek’s Methodological Individualism.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4148
2019-09-28T04:42:19Z
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7375626A656374733D44:4436
7375626A656374733D41:4131:413134
7375626A656374733D5A:5A31
7375626A656374733D44:4437:443731
7375626A656374733D49:4933:493331
7375626A656374733D44:4431
7375626A656374733D4A:4A32:4A3232
7375626A656374733D41:4131:413132
7375626A656374733D4A:4A31:4A3133
7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3133
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4148/
Many hands make hard work, or why agriculture is not a puzzle
Guzmán, Ricardo Andrés
D6 - Welfare Economics
A14 - Sociology of Economics
Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology
D71 - Social Choice ; Clubs ; Committees ; Associations
I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being
D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics
J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
J13 - Fertility ; Family Planning ; Child Care ; Children ; Youth
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
The shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture, some 10,000 years ago, triggered the first demographic explosion in history. Along with population, working time increased, while food consumption remained at the subsistence level. For that reason, most anthropologists regard the adoption of agriculture as an economical puzzle.
I show, using a neoclassical economic model, that there is nothing puzzling about the adoption of agriculture. Agriculture brings four technological changes: an increase in total factor productivity, a stabilization of total factor productivity, less interference of children on production, and the possibility of food storage. In my model, each of those changes induces free, rational and self-interested hunter-gatherers to adopt agriculture. As a result, working time increases while consumption remains at the subsistence level, and population begins to grow until diminishing returns to labor bring it to a halt. Welfare, which depends on consumption, leisure, and fertility, rises at first; but after a few generations it falls below its initial level. Still, the adoption of agriculture is irreversible. The latter generations choose to remain farmers because, at their current levels of population, reverting to hunting and gathering would reduce their welfare.
2007-01-28
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4148/1/MPRA_paper_4148.pdf
Guzmán, Ricardo Andrés (2007): Many hands make hard work, or why agriculture is not a puzzle.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4178
2019-09-28T18:09:41Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D41:4131
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4178/
Is the concept of sustainable tourism sustainable? Developing the Sustainable Tourism Benchmarking Tool
Cernat, Lucian
Gourdon, Julien
A1 - General Economics
Given the complexity of the issues surrounding the concept of sustainable tourism, the current paper tries to provide a unified methodology to assess tourism sustainability, based on a number of quantitative indicators. The proposed methodological framework (Sustainable Tourism Benchmarking Tool – STBT) will provide a number of benchmarks against which the sustainability of tourism activities in various countries can be assessed. A model development procedure is proposed: identification of the dimensions (economic, socio-ecologic, infrastructure) and indicators, method of scaling, chart representation and evaluation on three Asian countries. This application to three countries show us that a similar level of tourism activity might induce different sort of improvements to implement in the tourism activity and might have different consequences for the socio-ecological environment. The heterogeneity of developing countries exposed in the STBT is useful to detect the main problem of each country in their tourism activity.
2005-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4178/1/MPRA_paper_4178.pdf
Cernat, Lucian and Gourdon, Julien (2005): Is the concept of sustainable tourism sustainable? Developing the Sustainable Tourism Benchmarking Tool.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4217
2019-09-27T05:34:32Z
7374617475733D707562
7375626A656374733D4E:4E31:4E3137
7375626A656374733D46:4633:463335
7375626A656374733D41:4131:413134
7375626A656374733D5A:5A31
7375626A656374733D52:5235:523538
7375626A656374733D4F:4F32:4F3232
7375626A656374733D4F:4F35:4F3535
7375626A656374733D50:5035:503532
7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3137
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4217/
The long-term effects of development aid - Empirical studies in rural West Africa.
Bierschenk, Thomas
Elwert, Georg
Kohnert, Dirk
N17 - Africa ; Oceania
F35 - Foreign Aid
A14 - Sociology of Economics
Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
O22 - Project Analysis
O55 - Africa
P52 - Comparative Studies of Particular Economies
O17 - Formal and Informal Sectors ; Shadow Economy ; Institutional Arrangements
This article is based on field studies in rural West Africa. It concentrates on the socio-structural effects of development aid in the long run, in contrast to numerous available evaluation reports on the short-run effects of development projects. The study reveals that superficial generalisations or condemnations of development projects, like the big farmers benefit at the expense of the smaller ones, or the men benefit at the expense of the women, do not hold up to verification. Quite to the contrary one observes a wide range of specific adapted forms by which the target groups react to the demands and offers of development projects, and thereby transform their own social structure. In short, one observes a great diversity of social self-organisation. The bureaucratic structures of the development administration do, however, unfortunately - more often than not - ignore the social dynamic of their target groups which they nevertheless sustain unconsciously. Development aid has become an important political and economic factor in most African countries. Its financial impact often exceeds that of the national budget. It contributes, therefore, significantly to the development of a bureaucratic class and of its clients: the project development degenerates into a project nationalization / bureaucratization. This contrasts vividly with the strategies of the peasants. Men and women at village level do not accept any longer the paternalistic development approach. They just select what they need out of the packages of solutions that are offered to them, while they develop their own solutions, like a variety of seeds adapted to their specific resource endowments, diversified sources of income, different strategies of accumulation and risk prevention. All this allows for a gradual evolution by variation and selection. The dynamic of the rural society is to a large extent due to a competition of different (strategic) groups, opposed to one another, about the partitioning of the cake of development aid. Normally this struggle between different vested interests is covered up by the rhetoric of development planning. Planned development has up to now proven to be to rigid, to be able to take account of the complex and subtle fabric of self organisation. Aid sometimes appears to be a second best substitute for a vision of a democratic society. This is due to the fact that the structures we are aiming for in the long run - which are to allow for open markets, an orientation of the producers at the resources and needs of the nation, and last not least, the growth of indigenous structures of self-help - would require a responsible and democratic government, as well as the guarantee of civil rights, accountability, an independent judiciary, freedom of the press, etc.; up to now, however, all these elements are still oppressed by the commando state itself, well nourished by the various forms of technical and financial aid.
1991
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Bierschenk, Thomas and Elwert, Georg and Kohnert, Dirk (1991): The long-term effects of development aid - Empirical studies in rural West Africa. Published in: Economics, Biannual Journal of the Institute for Scientific Co-operation, Tübingen , Vol. 47, No. 1 (1993): pp. 83-111.
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An analytical approach on defense expenditure and economic growth: the case of Turkey and Greece
Kalyoncu, Huseyin
Yucel, Fatih
A10 - General
C22 - Time-Series Models ; Dynamic Quantile Regressions ; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models ; Diffusion Processes
The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between defense expenditure and economic growth for Turkey and Greece in the period of 1956-2003 using yearly data. Therefore we use Engle-Granger cointegration methodology and Granger causality test. It is found that these two variables are cointegrated for both countries studied. We found unidirectional causality running from economic growth to defense expenditure only for Turkey.
2005
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Kalyoncu, Huseyin and Yucel, Fatih (2005): An analytical approach on defense expenditure and economic growth: the case of Turkey and Greece. Published in: Journal of Economic Studies , Vol. 33, No. 5 (2006): pp. 336-343.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4377
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Behavioral economics and socio-economics journals: A citation-based ranking
Azar, Ofer H.
B5 - Current Heterodox Approaches
Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology
A1 - General Economics
Journal quality is a major consideration for authors, readers, and promotion and tenure committees, among others. Unfortunately, most behavioral economics and socio-economics journals are not included in published rankings or in Journal Citation Reports. Consequently, no objective ranking of these journals exists. To address this need, a list of journals in behavioral economics and socio-economics was compiled, and the number of articles that cited each journal was recorded for the periods 2001-2005, 1996-2000, and 1996-2005. In all periods Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization was ranked first and Journal of Economic Psychology second. In 2001-2005 Journal of Socio-Economics ranked third.
2006
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Azar, Ofer H. (2006): Behavioral economics and socio-economics journals: A citation-based ranking. Published in: Journal of Socio-Economics , Vol. 3, No. 36 (2007): pp. 451-462.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4419
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Towards a new theory of economic policy: Continuity and innovation
Acocella, Nicola
Di Bartolomeo, Giovanni
A10 - General
E00 - General
This paper outlines the evolution of the theory of economic policy from the classical contributions of Frisch, Hansen, Tinbergen and Theil to situations of strategic interaction. Andrew Hughes Hallett has taken an active and relevant part in this evolution, having contributed to both the development and recent rediscovery of the classical theory, with possible relevant applications for model building.
2007-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Acocella, Nicola and Di Bartolomeo, Giovanni (2007): Towards a new theory of economic policy: Continuity and innovation.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4457
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Incentives and Service Quality in the Restaurant Industry: The Tipping – Service Puzzle
Azar, Ofer H.
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
D10 - General
L80 - General
J30 - General
M50 - General
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
Tipping is a significant economic activity (tips in the US food industry alone amount to about $42 billion annually) that was claimed to improve service quality and increase economic efficiency, because it gives incentives to provide excellent service, and therefore allows to avoid costly monitoring of workers. The article suggests that this common wisdom might be wrong. A simple model shows formally that tips can improve service only if they are sensitive enough to service quality. Empirical evidence suggests that tips are hardly affected by service quality. Nevertheless, rankings of service quality by customers are very high; the co-existence of these two findings is denoted "the tipping – service puzzle,” and several possible explanations for it are offered.
2005
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Azar, Ofer H. (2005): Incentives and Service Quality in the Restaurant Industry: The Tipping – Service Puzzle. Forthcoming in: Applied Economics
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4477
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Action bias among elite soccer goalkeepers: The case of penalty kicks
Bar-Eli, Michael
Azar, Ofer H.
Ritov, Ilana
Keidar-Levin, Yael
Schein, Galit
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
D81 - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
D01 - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
C93 - Field Experiments
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
In soccer penalty kicks, goalkeepers choose their action before they can clearly observe the kick direction. An analysis of 286 penalty kicks in top leagues and championships worldwide shows that given the probability distribution of kick direction, the optimal strategy for goalkeepers is to stay in the goal's center. Goalkeepers, however, almost always jump right or left. We propose the following explanation for this behavior: because the norm is to jump, norm theory (Kahneman and Miller, 1986) implies that a goal scored yields worse feelings for the goalkeeper following inaction (staying in the center) than following action (jumping), leading to a bias for action. The omission bias, a bias in favor of inaction, is reversed here because the norm here is reversed - to act rather than to choose inaction. The claim that jumping is the norm is supported by a second study, a survey conducted with 32 top professional goalkeepers. The seemingly biased decision making is particularly striking since the goalkeepers have huge incentives to make correct decisions, and it is a decision they encounter frequently. Finally, we discuss several implications of the action/omission bias for economics and management.
2005
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Bar-Eli, Michael and Azar, Ofer H. and Ritov, Ilana and Keidar-Levin, Yael and Schein, Galit (2005): Action bias among elite soccer goalkeepers: The case of penalty kicks. Published in: Journal of Economic Psychology , Vol. 28, No. 5 (October 2007): pp. 606-621.
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The slowdown in first-response times of economics journals: Can it be beneficial?
Azar, Ofer H.
L82 - Entertainment ; Media
A19 - Other
A14 - Sociology of Economics
A10 - General
I23 - Higher Education ; Research Institutions
The first response time (henceforth FRT) of economics journals has increased over the last four decades from 1-2 months to 3-6 months. The optimal FRT, however, is not zero, because the FRT deters submission of mediocre papers to good journals and consequently saves valuable time of referees and editors. The change in the actual FRT is in the same direction as the change in the optimal FRT, which has increased because of the availability of research on the Internet prior to publication and because the costs of refereeing a paper have increased.
2002
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Azar, Ofer H. (2002): The slowdown in first-response times of economics journals: Can it be beneficial? Published in: Economic Inquiry , Vol. 1, No. 45 (2007): pp. 179-187.
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Evolution of social norms with heterogeneous preferences: A general model and an application to the academic review process
Azar, Ofer H.
L82 - Entertainment ; Media
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
A14 - Sociology of Economics
A10 - General
I23 - Higher Education ; Research Institutions
The article presents a model of social norm evolution, which suggests how the increase in optimal and actual first response times (FRT) of economics journals can be related. When the optimal FRT and the norm about how much time refereeing should take increase, it seems that the existence of a norm increases the average refereeing time. The model suggests the surprising result that this is not necessarily true. I also discuss applications of the model in other contexts, differences in the optimal FRT between disciplines, the effects of the FRT on the tenure process, and strategic behavior of referees.
2002
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Azar, Ofer H. (2002): Evolution of social norms with heterogeneous preferences: A general model and an application to the academic review process. Forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4483
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Citing reprinted material
Azar, Ofer H.
L82 - Entertainment ; Media
A20 - General
A14 - Sociology of Economics
A10 - General
A30 - General
Journal articles are sometimes later reprinted as chapters of edited books. The question whether citations of this material should mention the book or the journal has significant implications. I describe several advantages of citing the journal: it allows the readers to locate the material more easily and to handle it more conveniently (when it is available electronically); it gives a better signal about how important and updated the material is; and it gives the journal proper credit, which is important because journals are ranked based on citations. Finally, several reasons for citing the book are also discussed.
2005
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Azar, Ofer H. (2005): Citing reprinted material. Forthcoming in: American Economist
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4484
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Behavioral industrial organization, firm strategy, and consumer economics
Azar, Ofer H.
D40 - General
L10 - General
M20 - General
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
M30 - General
D10 - General
The field of behavioral economics is one of the fastest-growing fields in economics in recent years. Not long ago this was a small field, but over the last decade or so, the field gained more recognition, and today it seems clear that psychological motivations and biases affect economic behavior in many important ways. Insights from psychology were incorporated in several areas of economics. This paper offers a short review of the application of behavioral economics to industrial organization, which can be denoted “behavioral industrial organization,” and on the relationship between behavioral industrial organization, firm strategy, and consumer economics.
2006
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Azar, Ofer H. (2006): Behavioral industrial organization, firm strategy, and consumer economics.
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Tipping, firm strategy, and industrial organization
Azar, Ofer H.
D11 - Consumer Economics: Theory
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
L83 - Sports ; Gambling ; Restaurants ; Recreation ; Tourism
D12 - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
Tipping is a phenomenon that has been studied for many years, but is receiving increased attention in recent years. The magnitude of tips is very large – in the US, for example, tips in the food industry alone amount to about $42 billion each year, and tips are given in many other establishments and countries, so annual worldwide tips are much higher than that. Millions of workers in the US alone derive most of their income from tips and tipping is prevalent in numerous countries and occupations. These are all good reasons to study tipping, but it is clear that tipping has created much interest also because it is puzzling from a theoretical perspective. The common assumption in economics that people maximize utility (which is derived by consuming various goods) subject to a budget constraint implies that people should give up money only when they receive something in return. This is not the case, however, when people tip: service has already been provided by the time the tip is given, so the tip is a voluntary payment that does not buy something real (such as improved service) in return.
The literature on tipping can be divided to two main areas. The first area can be termed "understanding tipping behavior." This includes studies that try to understand why people tip, what affects their tipping behavior, why tipping is different across countries, etc. The second research area, which started to receive attention more recently, can be defined as "tipping, firm strategy, and industrial organization." This part of the literature deals with the effect of tipping on firms and markets. For example, firms can sometimes choose between voluntary tipping and compulsory service charges – which one is better for the firm? How should the existence of tips affect optimal pricing by the firm? How should firms monitor workers and provide incentives to them when tipping exists? Why does tipping exist in some industries but not in others? Does tipping increase social welfare in industries in which it is the norm? All these questions belong to this second research area and demonstrate the close relationship of tipping to industrial organization and firm strategy. Several review articles made an attempt to summarize and synthesize the extensive literature in the area of understanding tipping behavior, but no article has offered an extensive literature review that focuses on the area of "tipping, firm strategy, and industrial organization." The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to review and summarize the literature in this area of research.
2006
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Azar, Ofer H. (2006): Tipping, firm strategy, and industrial organization.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4540
2019-09-30T04:23:19Z
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Where Economics Has Been Headed? Multiple Identities And Diversity In Economic Literature Evidence From Top Journals Over The Period 2000-2006 A First Note
Campiglio, Luigi
Caruso, Raul
A10 - General
This short paper presents some preliminary results of an ongoing research work focusing on richness and diversity of economic literature. The key idea is that each article published in an economic journal retains multiple identities. These multiple identities are captured through the use of Jel codes. A sample of ten top generalist journals has been selected. The relative abundance of all Jel categories has been computed for the period 2000-2006. Moreover, a degree of diversity has been proposed for both the sampled journals and the entire Econlit database.
2007-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Campiglio, Luigi and Caruso, Raul (2007): Where Economics Has Been Headed? Multiple Identities And Diversity In Economic Literature Evidence From Top Journals Over The Period 2000-2006 A First Note.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4625
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Book Review to Luigino Bruni -'Reciprocita'- Economic Thought and Reciprocity Theories
Reggiani, Tommaso
C70 - General
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
D70 - General
B21 - Microeconomics
A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values
"Written with the attempt to tell credible history and possible scenes, in order to anticipate still latent tendencies, or in order to imagine communities and societies more civil, richer than reciprocity, in all its shapes. " (p. xv). From this ambitious premised the author of the issue takes the movements and it invites to us to explore one region of social sciences, until today, inadequately explored: the dimension of the reciprocity between the economic and social agents.
- This book review, focused on a historical perspective, describes the debate developed by the history of economic thought regarding theories of reciprocity. -
2007-01-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Reggiani, Tommaso (2007): Book Review to Luigino Bruni -'Reciprocita'- Economic Thought and Reciprocity Theories. Published in: Storia del Pensiero Economico - SPE n.1-2007 january/june (Nuova serie - Anno IV) (1 June 2007): pp. 200-202.
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India’s policy deficit: as I look at it
Mishra, SK
O53 - Asia including Middle East
A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values
A1 - General Economics
O2 - Development Planning and Policy
This essay draws attention to the fundamental axioms of human nature which the socio-economic policies of India bank upon and analyses why in spite of elaborate planning for development well over a span of fifty years the core economy of the country remains unchanged with wide spread poverty, poor wage rates, child labour and hunger.
2007-09-25
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Mishra, SK (2007): India’s policy deficit: as I look at it.
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Explaining the logic of pure preference in a neurodynamic structure
Dominique, C-Rene
B41 - Economic Methodology
A14 - Sociology of Economics
A1 - General Economics
This paper uses Category Theory to integrate a nonlinear, nonhomogeneous ordinary differential equation system into an input/output representation in an attempt to capture the mechanism behind the formation of pure preference in humans. The model shows that the human brain belongs to the class of functions U ε C2(R3, R). In addition, it shows that there exists an emerging factor, e, which is sine qua non for expressing a preference. The factor, e, may be associated with ‘judgement’ which, in turn, may neatly subsume ‘consciousness’, the arrival of new information, and cases of selection under risks and uncertainty.
2006-12-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Dominique, C-Rene (2006): Explaining the logic of pure preference in a neurodynamic structure.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5374
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Measuring social capital with a myograph
Roberto, Censolo
Laila, Craighero
Luciano, Fadiga
Giovanni, Ponti
Leonzio, Rizzo
Z10 - General
C9 - Design of Experiments
Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology
A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
C90 - General
Z19 - Other
Z12 - Religion
C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
We study the behavior of 12 pairs of undergraduate students while they were involved in a simple coordination game requiring motor interaction. Three experimental conditions were defined according to whether a monetary prize was given to both or only one subject, if the couple was in successfully completing the required assignment.
Electromyographic potentials (EMG) were recorded from the right first dorsal interosseus (FDI) muscle, a muscle critically involved in the motor task. We also collected written answers from a standard questionnaire from which we constructed individual measures of Social Capital (SC), based on organized group interaction, religious and political
involvement. These measures are collected, by standard practice, to estimate individual pro-social attitudes and behavior.
Consistently with our simple behavioral model, by which EMG signals are direct measures of subjects’ personal concern (call it utility) associated to the given task, our evidence shows that EMG is increasing in the subjects’ own monetary reward. When we split the subject pool into two subsamples (according to various measures of Social Capital
obtained from the questionnaire), we find that monetary incentives explain the level of subjects’ EMG only in the subsample characterized by low SC, while, for subjects with (comparatively) higher SC, effort in the coordination task is much less sensitive to whether it is directly rewarded or not. This result is robust across the different SC index specifications. The present findings seem to support the possibility that an electrophysiological measure, such as EMG, could reveal the most profound attitudes and believes that guide social interaction, and that our relatively inexpensive and ready-to-use technology can back-up socio-economic research in a very effective way.
2006-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5374/1/MPRA_paper_5374.pdf
Roberto, Censolo and Laila, Craighero and Luciano, Fadiga and Giovanni, Ponti and Leonzio, Rizzo (2006): Measuring social capital with a myograph.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5392
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La legalidad en las políticas agrarias: México 1990–2005
Acosta Reveles, Irma Lorena
Q10 - General
A14 - Sociology of Economics
R10 - General
K00 - General
In support of public policy, the law anticipates Government projects so as to pave the way for them, or is adjusted along the way in order to adapt the institutional framework to the processes which in fact prevail. A typical case is that of Mexican Agrarian legislation in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. We propose here that recent developments in Agrarian legislation reveal the limitations of the modernizing strategy of the 1990s, which resulted in a call for the rural population to enter into alternative economic activities, as agriculture ceases to be the way of life for numerous families. We conclude that the restructuring of agricultural production in Mexico has excluded the productive and social dimensions. The reformulation of agrarian legal discourse demonstrates the structural limitations of advancement in terms of the agribusiness model. Now the sector’s economic policy priorities of growth and yield shift towards the instruments of social policy related to territorial construction.
2007
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5392/1/MPRA_paper_5392.pdf
Acosta Reveles, Irma Lorena (2007): La legalidad en las políticas agrarias: México 1990–2005. Published in: Investigación Científica. Revista digital de la Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Nueva época. , Vol. Volume, No. Issue 2 (August 2007): pp. 1-25.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5402
2019-09-30T18:55:37Z
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Is Economics Entering its Post-Witchcraft Era?
Potgieter, Petrus H.
Rosinger, Elemér E.
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
C02 - Mathematical Methods
A11 - Role of Economics ; Role of Economists ; Market for Economists
Recently, an awareness is emerging in economics about the fact that important problems are not solvable algorithmically, that is, by any finite number of steps. This statement can be made mathematically exact and this paper reviews the contributions that have been made in this regard, related to standard topics in economics.
2007-05-25
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5402/1/MPRA_paper_5402.pdf
Potgieter, Petrus H. and Rosinger, Elemér E. (2007): Is Economics Entering its Post-Witchcraft Era?
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5585
2019-09-30T17:57:35Z
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Valore e Marx: Perche sono importanti
Freeman, Alan
B50 - General
B00 - General
B14 - Socialist ; Marxist
B24 - Socialist ; Marxist ; Sraffian
B51 - Socialist ; Marxian ; Sraffian
B40 - General
B12 - Classical (includes Adam Smith)
A1 - General Economics
This is the Italian version of ‘Value and Marx: why it matters’ which appeared in Vasopollo, L (2002) (ed) ‘Un Vecchio Falso Problema: La Transformazione dei valori in prezzi nel Capital di Marx’, Roma: Laboratoria per la critica sociale.
It was presented at the May 2002 conference organised by the Laboratorio per la critica sociale in Rome.
It summarises the debate to this point on the temporal and simultaneous approaches to value and on the alleged inconsistencies in Marx’s approach.
Keywords: TSSI, MELT, value, Marx, price, profit rate, Okishio, non-equilibrium, equilibrium, money, sraffa
2002-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5585/1/MPRA_paper_5585.pdf
Freeman, Alan (2002): Valore e Marx: Perche sono importanti. Published in: Proteo No. 2001-2 (2002): pp. 52-61.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5663
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Zelig and the Art of Measuring Excess Profit
magni, Carlo Alberto
G11 - Portfolio Choice ; Investment Decisions
G31 - Capital Budgeting ; Fixed Investment and Inventory Studies ; Capacity
C0 - General
M4 - Accounting and Auditing
G00 - General
G30 - General
D46 - Value Theory
B40 - General
M41 - Accounting
G12 - Asset Pricing ; Trading Volume ; Bond Interest Rates
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
M2 - Business Economics
This paper tells the story of a student of economics and finance who meets a couple of alleged psychopaths, suffering from the ‘syndrome of Zelig’, so that they think of themselves to be experts of economic and financial issues. While speaking, they come across the concept of excess profit. The student tells them that the formal way to translate excess profit is to apply Stewart’s (1991) EVA model and shows that this model is equivalent to Peccati’s (1987, 1991, 1992) decomposition model of a project’s Net Present (Final) Value. The ‘Zeligs’ listen to him carefully, then try to apply themselves the EVA model: Unfortunately, both She-Zelig and He-Zelig seem to feel uneasy with basic mathematics, so they make some mistakes. Consequently, each of them miscalculates the excess profit. Strangely enough, they make different mistakes but both get to the (correct) Net Final Value of the project and, in addition, their excess profits do coincide. Further, the (biased) models presented by the Zeligs, though different from the EVA model, seem to bear strong relations to the latter. The student is rather surprised.
I give my version of this event, arguing that the Zeligs are offering us a rational way of measuring excess profit, alternative to the standard one (EVA) but equally valuable. As I see it, they are only adopting a different cognitive interpretation of the concept of excess profit, which is based on a counterfactual conditional that differs from Stewart’s and Peccati’s.
2006-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5663/1/MPRA_paper_5663.pdf
magni, Carlo Alberto (2006): Zelig and the Art of Measuring Excess Profit. Published in: Frontiers in Finance and Economics , Vol. 1, No. 3 (June 2006): pp. 103-129.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5667
2019-10-12T13:52:07Z
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What is Behavioural Economics Like?
Lanteri, Alessandro
Carabelli, Anna
D81 - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
Behavioural Economics’ milestones, Endowment Effect and Loss Aversion, have been recognized as ‘well documented,’ ‘robust,’ and ‘important’ even by the critics. But well documented, robust, and important what? Are these stylized facts, theoretical constructs, or psychological truths? Do they express genuine preferences or are they judgement mistakes? We discuss the problems with the nature of these claims in the lights of the goals of Behavioural Economics: to improve economics’ realisticness and to be considered mainstream. We argue that, under sensible interpretations of Loss Aversion and Endowment Effect, Behavioural Economics is neither more realistic than, nor part of the mainstream.
2007-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5667/1/MPRA_paper_5667.pdf
Lanteri, Alessandro and Carabelli, Anna (2007): What is Behavioural Economics Like?
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5678
2019-09-28T10:00:34Z
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DYNAMICS OF COAL AND LIMESTONE EXTRACTION IN MEGHALAYA: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
De, Utpal Kumar
A1 - General Economics
Q0 - General
Q3 - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation
Coal and limestone are the two important natural resources abundant in Meghalaya. These two minerals have been extracted substantially during last few decades and have been contributing significantly to the employment and income in the state. But the rising extraction over time has raised concern about the sustainability of the progress of the area as the extraction has been going on not for any kind of local industrial development where employment may be generated further and progress would be accelerated. These are mined only to export and earn money without much value addition. Hence an attempt is made to comparatively study the nature of extraction of these two valuable resources and their future possible consequences with respect to the development of the state.
2007-11-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5678/1/MPRA_paper_5678.pdf
De, Utpal Kumar (2007): DYNAMICS OF COAL AND LIMESTONE EXTRACTION IN MEGHALAYA: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5695
2019-10-01T17:47:35Z
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Opportunity cost, excess profit, and counterfactual conditionals
Magni, Carlo Alberto
D46 - Value Theory
M41 - Accounting
G11 - Portfolio Choice ; Investment Decisions
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
G3 - Corporate Finance and Governance
G00 - General
M21 - Business Economics
Counterfactual conditionals are cognitive tools that we incessantly use during our lives for judgments, evaluations, decisions. Counterfactuals are used for defining concepts as well; an instance of this is attested by the notions of opportunity cost and excess profit, two all-pervasive notions of economics: They are defined by undoing a given scenario and constructing a suitable
counterfactual milieu. Focussing on the standard paradigm and Magni’s (2000, 2005, 2006) proposal this paper shows that the formal translation of the counterfactual state is not univocal and that Magni’s model retains formal properties of symmetry, additive coherence, homeomorphism,
which correspond to properties of frame-independence, time invariance, completeness. Two introductory studies are also presented to illustrate how people cope with these counterfactuals and ascertain whether either model is seen as more “natural”. A brief discussion of the results obtained is also provided.
2003
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5695/1/MPRA_paper_5695.pdf
Magni, Carlo Alberto (2003): Opportunity cost, excess profit, and counterfactual conditionals. Forthcoming in: Frontiers in Finance and Economics
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5710
2019-09-27T09:36:56Z
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Tourism as Mass-media: a suitable global Tool acting locally - a possible Option to appraise the European Heritage on the 21st Century
rotariu, ilie
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
During the sixties, tourism has turned into a mass movement. By comparison with the mass media, we can identify all basic characteristics of the latter: a location where the message is elaborated to be then spread through specific channels of distribution bearing in mind the same goals. Moreover, tourism as mass media allows the "target" to check the information on location during the trip, a kind of feed back that makes the information the more trustworthy. Virtual tourism has brought new challenges
2000
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5710/1/MPRA_paper_5710.pdf
rotariu, ilie (2000): Tourism as Mass-media: a suitable global Tool acting locally - a possible Option to appraise the European Heritage on the 21st Century.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5784
2013-02-11T14:27:07Z
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2017-12-21T09:20:47Z
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5934
2017-12-21T09:22:29Z
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5936
2019-10-01T04:51:57Z
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Resultados provisórios do exercício Delphi WorTiS (1ª fase)
Moniz, António
L62 - Automobiles ; Other Transportation Equipment ; Related Parts and Equipment
O14 - Industrialization ; Manufacturing and Service Industries ; Choice of Technology
A14 - Sociology of Economics
J11 - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
In this working paper are present the main provisional results of the first round of a Delphi survey held in Portugal on the automotive sector. It was done under the WorTiS project, developed by IET – Research Centre on Enterprise and Work Innovation, and financed by the Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology.
The majority of experts consider to have an average of less knowledge in almost all the scenario topics presented. Nevertheless, we considered specially the topics where the experts considered themselves to have some knowledge. There were no “irrelevant” topics considered as such by the expert panel. There are also no topics that is not considered a need for co-operation (that happens in jus tone case). The lack of technological infra-structrures was not considered as an hindered factor for the accomplishement of any scenario. The experts panel considered no other international competence besides US, Japan or Germany in these topics. Although the members of the expert panel were not as many as needed, These situations will be taken into consideration for a second round of the Delphi survey
2004-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5936/1/MPRA_paper_5936.pdf
Moniz, António (2004): Resultados provisórios do exercício Delphi WorTiS (1ª fase). Published in: WorTiS Research Reports No. RPT_DELPHI_06 (August 2004): pp. 1-25.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5987
2019-10-03T13:02:21Z
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SHOULD THE UTILITY FUNCTION BE DITCHED?
Dominique, C-Rene
B40 - General
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
A10 - General
This note takes a retrospective look at the Utility Construct still in use in economic science and compares it to a new approach based on recent findings in neuroscience. The results show that it is more natural and more compelling to go from the preference order to the price vector. Thus making the non-falsifiable utility apparatus superfluous.
2007-11-27
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5987/1/MPRA_paper_5987.pdf
Dominique, C-Rene (2007): SHOULD THE UTILITY FUNCTION BE DITCHED?
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6050
2019-10-05T17:15:39Z
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El asalariado agrícola en América Latina. Estado del conocimiento y propuesta de interpretación
Acosta Reveles, Irma Lorena
Q1 - Agriculture
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
A14 - Sociology of Economics
J30 - General
This article has two aims. First, provide a systematic review of academic contributions on agricultural wages. Secondly, introduce conceptual and methodological tools to understand the development of the Latin-American agriculture from 1980's to today. Of special importance is the development of labor relations in agriculture.
2006-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6050/1/MPRA_paper_6050.pdf
Acosta Reveles, Irma Lorena (2006): El asalariado agrícola en América Latina. Estado del conocimiento y propuesta de interpretación. Published in: Revista Electrónica Zacatecana sobre Población y Sociedad. Unidad Académica de Ciencias Sociales, UAZ , Vol. Año 6,, No. Issue 28 (June 2006): 0-16.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6065
2019-09-26T14:45:42Z
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Indian sugar industry - a strong industrial base for rural India
Pandey, Adya Prasad
A1 - General Economics
A10 - General
Indian sugar industry, second largest agro-based processing industry afte the
cotton textiles industry in country, has a lion's share in accelerating industrialization
process and bringing socio-economic changes in under developed rural areas. Sugar
industry covers around 7.5% of total rural population and provides employment to 5 lakh
rural people. About 4.5 crore farmers are engaged in sugarcane cultivation in Inda. Sugar
mills (cooperative, private, and public) have been instrumental in initiating a number of
entrepreneurial activities in rural India. Present paper is an attempt as to review progress
of sugar industry in India, understand it's problems and challenges in context of ongoing
liberalization process. Indian sugar industry can be a global leader provided it comes out
of the vicious cycle of shortage and surplus of sugarcane, lower sugarcane yield, lower
sugar recovery, ever increasing production costs and mounting losses. It needs quality
management at all levels of activity to enhance productivity and production. Attention is
required on cost minimization and undertaking by product processing activities.
2007-12-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6065/1/MPRA_paper_6065.pdf
Pandey, Adya Prasad (2007): Indian sugar industry - a strong industrial base for rural India. Forthcoming in:
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6073
2019-09-30T16:40:15Z
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Investment decisions, equivalent risk and bounded rationality
Magni, Carlo Alberto
D81 - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
G11 - Portfolio Choice ; Investment Decisions
B40 - General
G31 - Capital Budgeting ; Fixed Investment and Inventory Studies ; Capacity
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
M20 - General
G30 - General
The Net Present Value maximizing model shows fallacies and inconsistencies that may be easily unmasked by performing a cognitive analysis of the decision-making process implied by the maximization problem. The model may be conveniently rescued if the maximizing version of the criterion is shunt aside and a boundedly rational interpretation is given. The resulting ‘mixed strategy’, currently in use by many real-life decision makers, opens up terrain to a fruitful
cooperation between bounded and unbounded rationality. This paper is consistent with a fluid and nondichotomous interpretation of dual-process theories.
2007-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6073/1/MPRA_paper_6073.pdf
Magni, Carlo Alberto (2007): Investment decisions, equivalent risk and bounded rationality.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6085
2019-09-26T19:49:08Z
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Labour management relation: A radical deal for industrial peace
Pandey, Adya Prasad
A10 - General
In the rapid programme of industrial development of India, trade unions have come to
occupy a critical position in the success of industrial relations in the country. Trade Unionism in
India has been undergoing rapid changes due to socio-economic transformation. The term industrial
relation or labour – management relation, refers to industry and relations, ‘industry’ means ‘any
productive activity in which an individual is engaged’ and ‘relations’ means ‘the relations that exist
in the industry between the employer and his workmen’. The concept of industrial relation is a
developing and dynamic concept and does not limit itself merely to the complex of relations
between the unions and management but also refers to the general web of relationship normally
obtaining between employees. A web is much more complex than the simple concept of labour
capital conflict.
According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) “Industrial relations deals with
either the relationship between the state, employers' and workers organization or the relation
between the occupational organization themselves.”
Modern industrialism has not been an unmixed but has created a yawning gulf between
management and labour because of the absence of workers ownership of the means of production.
Power is concentrated in the hands of a few entrepreneurs, while the majority has been relegated to
the insignificant position of merge wage-earners. The workers have now come to realize that most
of their demands can be satisfied if they resort to concerted and collective action; while the
employers are aware of the fact that they can resist these demands. This denial or refusal to meet
their genuine demands has often led to dissatisfaction on the part of the workers, to their distress,
and even to violent activities on their part, which have hindered production and harmed both the
workers and the employees.
In order to analyse the cause of labour – management relations we have to go into the
various aspects related with industrial production and productivity. Hence in the present paper the
researcher adopted the random sampling technique for the purpose and interviewed with the help of
questionnaire. The whole universe has been classified into three groups, - viz. workers, executives
and trade union leaders/office bearers of Bokaro Steel Plant. The research proposed to select nearly
160 workers, 70 executives and 70 trade union office bearers/leaders of Bokaro Steel Plant. Thus a
total of 300 respondents in all were selected for study. The present study has been divided in IV
parts Ist part is introductory whereas the IInd part deals with various segments of labourmanagement
relations. The IIIrd part analyses the various aspects of the industrial relations
concerning to trade unions on the basis of primary datas of Bokaro Steel Plant. The last partconcludes the study.
2007-12-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Pandey, Adya Prasad (2007): Labour management relation: A radical deal for industrial peace.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6150
2019-09-26T09:40:53Z
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Indian Agriculture in the New Economic Regime, 1971-2003: Empirics based on the Cobb Douglas Production Function
Kamat, Manoj
Tupe, Sanjay
Kamat, Manasvi
Q1 - Agriculture
A1 - General Economics
B4 - Economic Methodology
This paper reviews the trends in Indian Agriculture before and after the introduction of the economic reforms, and the advent of WTO regime. We employ the Cobb Douglas Production Function using the OLS specification to investigate the determinants of agricultural gross domestic product for the period 1970-71 to 2002-03, during pre and post-economic reforms to document the impact of policy change (post-1992) and India’s membership of the WTO (post-1995). Our empirical findings reveal that Indian agriculture sector has witnessed Decreasing Returns to Scale after the introduction of economic reforms, indicating that the input availability is under strain during the same period.
2007-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6150/1/MPRA_paper_6150.pdf
Kamat, Manoj and Tupe, Sanjay and Kamat, Manasvi (2007): Indian Agriculture in the New Economic Regime, 1971-2003: Empirics based on the Cobb Douglas Production Function.
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STRUKTURELLE VERÄNDERUNGEN IN DER WIRTSCHAFT DER REPUBLIKEN KRAOATIEN UND BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND
Novak, Branko
Matić, Branko
E62 - Fiscal Policy
E43 - Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
E0 - General
E51 - Money Supply ; Credit ; Money Multipliers
E44 - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
A10 - General
G24 - Investment Banking ; Venture Capital ; Brokerage ; Ratings and Ratings Agencies
E60 - General
E47 - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
E58 - Central Banks and Their Policies
E52 - Monetary Policy
E61 - Policy Objectives ; Policy Designs and Consistency ; Policy Coordination
E41 - Demand for Money
G21 - Banks ; Depository Institutions ; Micro Finance Institutions ; Mortgages
The paper discusses the structural changes taking place in the financial system of the Republic of Croatia after the country became independent. Particular attention is given to the banking system, bankruptcies and rehabilitation of banks. Furthermore, the paper analyzes the development of insurance companies, investment funds and pension funds as important components of the financial system. The state and development of money and capital markets is analyzed as well. The legislation covering the major financial institutions is reviewed and compared with the legislation in highly developed market economies.
2002
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6156/1/MPRA_paper_6156.pdf
Novak, Branko and Matić, Branko (2002): STRUKTURELLE VERÄNDERUNGEN IN DER WIRTSCHAFT DER REPUBLIKEN KRAOATIEN UND BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND. Published in: XXIII. Wissenschaftliches Symposium, Strukturelle Veränderungen in der Wirtschaft der Republiken Kroatien und Bundesrepublik Deutschland (10 October 2002): pp. 31-51.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6215
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6215/
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION, THE BASIS OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
Bodea, Gabriela
Mustata, Razvan V.
F0 - General
F5 - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy
A1 - General Economics
M2 - Business Economics
Communication expresses the connections between the purposes and the instruments used by a transmitter of a message. Inside the cultural grounds generated by a society – defining for the system of values of a community, it may as well facilitate, complicate or even erase any connection between individual and language. In a binary system determined by what is acquired and what is innate, the cultural factor reveals its multiple meanings, and besides any stream of appearances the two initiate a reciprocal determination. As culture is a guarantee of the functionality of a behavior, the success of an organization also depends upon the communication between the employees but as well of the connection between managerial decisions and their practice. Thus the cultural differences between the employees have to be taken into consideration, and mostly they have to be reduced so as not to transform into conflicts. Still, at times, it is these differences proper which make for the value of the idiom like „unity in diversity” and also define intercultural communication. For such a context like the business one the impact of the professional culture on a more general one is highly decisive. The assimilation of the organizational culture is accomplished by acknowledging and promoting the landmarks of the national culture while its development finds its own landmarks in notions like: the vocation, the effort and the imagination of the ones involved in initiating and maintaining a business. Consequently, the present analysis attempts to express the correspondence between the mental map of a population (its bias for certain values) and the predominant pattern of the organizational culture of that particular country.
2007-12-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6215/1/MPRA_paper_6215.pdf
Bodea, Gabriela and Mustata, Razvan V. (2007): INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION, THE BASIS OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE. Published in: International Journal of Business Research , Vol. VI, No. 1 (15 October 2006): pp. 81-95.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6415
2019-09-28T02:39:22Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6415/
Mapeamento De Indicadores de Qualificação e de Competência Profissional Num Sistema Complexo De Trabalho. O Caso Dos Serviços De Controlo De Tráfego Aéreo
Sampaio, José
Moniz, António
J24 - Human Capital ; Skills ; Occupational Choice ; Labor Productivity
C93 - Field Experiments
A14 - Sociology of Economics
Flexibilisation and complexification of working places, due to the information technologies, requires an holistic approach to the labour reality, in an integrative and wide perspective of different scenarios and operational contexts. Such new changes implies the development of new personal and professional features that are beyond the restrict frame of the autonomous, discrete and specialised work. The knowledge needed for the work in organisations can be searched in the working processes modelling. And that can be a constructive basis of a “knowledge map”.
Thus, are described the activities of different working processes, and that induces the emergence of a group of informations (indicators) necessary to the construction of each competence that supports the execution of those processes. This action even allows the existence of possible gaps in the strategies of long-life education and training. They assume more and more a critical support to the need of updating and maintenance of professional competences. How to identify and operationalise the professional competences in a working complex system is one of the main issues in this paper.
The case study presented in this paper is refered to the air traffic control and it presents the methodology used for the identification and validation of a group of structuring professional competencies that are evident in a complex working system.
2005-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6415/1/MPRA_paper_6415.pdf
Sampaio, José and Moniz, António (2005): Mapeamento De Indicadores de Qualificação e de Competência Profissional Num Sistema Complexo De Trabalho. O Caso Dos Serviços De Controlo De Tráfego Aéreo. Published in: ENSIOT Proceedings. COMPETITIVIDADE, RESPONSABILIDADE SOCIAL E QUALIDADE DE VIDA No. 10 (November 2005): pp. 1-18.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6560
2019-10-08T09:34:04Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6560/
A Business-Relevant View of Human Nature
Mitreanu, Cristian
D0 - General
M0 - General
B0 - General
M1 - Business Administration
A1 - General Economics
B5 - Current Heterodox Approaches
The article, "A Business-Relevant View of Human Nature," provides a new theory of human nature, and aims to bring it to the center of our understanding of business, or commerce, creating a strong foundation for new business and economic principles and practices. The article has three parts. In the first section, the author identifies and discusses the fundamental drives that characterize all forms of life. Building upon these findings, he then develops the unique view of human nature in the second section. Finally, in the last section, he highlights the new perspectives on business that can be generated with the help of the new theory of human nature.
2007-11-19
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6560/1/MPRA_paper_6560.pdf
Mitreanu, Cristian (2007): A Business-Relevant View of Human Nature. Published in: (19 November 2007)
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6628
2019-09-26T12:10:52Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6628/
Business Practices of Wal-Mart in Northwest Indiana
Rao, Surekha
O'Dell, CYnthia
A1 - General Economics
J28 - Safety ; Job Satisfaction ; Related Public Policy
J70 - General
M21 - Business Economics
Wal-Mart symbolizes the strength of economic and commercial activity in any region. Wal-Mart has built a business empire on its low-cost model. Customers love Wal-Mart stores for its low prices. At the same time, Wal-Mart is under a barrage of criticism for labor practices and indirect burdens on our social and welfare programs. Some of the business practices of Wal-Mart like the employees’ wage-benefits package, and the underemployment of women and minorities are the subject of ongoing debate at the national level. Our main objective is to review this issue within a regional context. We examined whether what is being alleged about the business practices of Wal-Mart at the national level is mirrored at the regional level, like northwest Indiana.
The findings presented are from a survey designed to analyze the impact of the business practices of Wal-Mart on customers and employees. Our results concur with earlier national studies that there are hidden costs for the community which shops and supports Wal-Mart and that a large number of employees are older, work part time, earn below the regional average income, and depend on state welfare programs. We found gender differences in employment, earnings, and career advancement opportunities. The price of low cost goods may be too high for the region economy and it will likely affect women more than men.
2007-06-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6628/2/MPRA_paper_6628.pdf
Rao, Surekha and O'Dell, CYnthia (2007): Business Practices of Wal-Mart in Northwest Indiana. Forthcoming in: International Journal of Business and Economic Perspectives (2008)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6713
2019-09-29T00:59:53Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6713/
Between Two World Systems: A Response to David Laibman
Freeman, Alan
B51 - Socialist ; Marxian ; Sraffian
B40 - General
B12 - Classical (includes Adam Smith)
B0 - General
B14 - Socialist ; Marxist
A1 - General Economics
B50 - General
B24 - Socialist ; Marxist ; Sraffian
Prepublication version of article that appeared as Zarembka, P (ed) Economic Theory of Capitalism and its Crises, Research in Political Economy 17, pp241-48. Stanford, CT: JAI Press.
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/621298/description#description
This article formed part of a four-way exchange on the rate of profit which appeared in Research in Political Economy in 1999 and 2000, between David Laibman, Duncan Foley, Andrew Kliman and Alan Freeman. This piece constituted Freeman’s response to an initial critique by Laibman of the Temporal Single System Interpretation (TSSI) of Marx’s value theory. Applying an alternative valuation to the TSSI, he shows that a rising rate of profit can be deduced where the TSSI finds a falling one; and concludes that temporalism cannot be responsible for TSS results. This is of course true: a falling value profit rate arises from the specific combination of temporalism and valuation by the magnitude of labour time. However Laibman accepts the most important conclusion of TSSI research, namely, it refutes Okishio’s theorem, according to which under no circumstances can the rate of profit fall with cost-saving technical change. Since SSI results exhibit such a circumstance, the theorem is false.
My response goes further to establish the precise conditions under which the value rate of profit falls: The maximum profit rate falls if the value invested, as a proportion of the value of accumulated capital, is greater than the rate of increase in living labour. The response also demonstrates that simultaneous valuation results in a violation of the principle that value can arise only from production, a principle preserved in the TSSI derivation of value.
1999-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6713/1/MPRA_paper_6713.pdf
Freeman, Alan (1999): Between Two World Systems: A Response to David Laibman. Published in: Research in Political Economy No. 17 (April 1999): pp. 241-248.
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6715/
Two Concepts of Value, Two Rates of Profit, Two Laws of Motion
Freeman, Alan
Kliman, Andrew
B51 - Socialist ; Marxian ; Sraffian
B40 - General
B12 - Classical (includes Adam Smith)
B0 - General
B14 - Socialist ; Marxist
A1 - General Economics
B50 - General
B24 - Socialist ; Marxist ; Sraffian
Article that appeared as Zarembka, P (ed) Economic Theory of Capitalism and its Crises, Research in Political Economy 18, pp241-48. Stanford, CT: JAI Press.
(http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/621298/description#description)
Responds to debate initiated in Research in Political Economy 17
(http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/621907/description#description)
This article formed part of a four-way exchange on the rate of profit which appeared in Research in Political Economy 17 and 18 in 1999 and 2000, between David Laibman, Duncan Foley, Andrew Kliman and Alan Freeman. This piece constituted Freeman and Kliman’s response to the contributions of Foley and Laibman, themselves a response to our reactions to Laibman’s initial critique of the Temporal Single System Interpretation (TSSI) of Marx’s value theory.
Our response establishes that both Laibman and Foley concede the fundamental point in the debate: there exist circumstances under which the rate of profit falls under cost-saving technical change, refuting Okishio’s theorem which states that the rate of profit cannot fall on these presuppositions in any circumstances.
Our response assesses the reasons that, although Okishio’s theorem has been disproved, Marxist authors are unable or unwilling to acknowledge this fact. We dissect the faulty mathematical reasoning that lies behind the following notion: ‘the temporal rate of profit may fall, but it may also rise. Since it does not inevitably fall, Okishio’s theorem holds’. In fact, Okishio’s theorem asserts that the rate of profit may never fall. Therefore, mathematically, if a case is exhibited in which, under Okishio’s assumptions, the rate of profit does fall, the theorem is thereby disproved.
Our response then establishes the general conditions under which the rate of profit does, or does not, fall.
Keywords: TSSI, MELT, value, Marx, price, profit rate, Okishio, non-equilibrium, equilibrium, money
2000-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6715/1/MPRA_paper_6715.pdf
Freeman, Alan and Kliman, Andrew (2000): Two Concepts of Value, Two Rates of Profit, Two Laws of Motion. Published in: Research in Political Economy No. 18 (April 2000): pp. 243-267.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6717
2019-09-28T09:26:37Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6717/
Rejoinder to Duncan Foley and David Laibman
Kliman, Andrew
Freeman, Alan
B51 - Socialist ; Marxian ; Sraffian
B40 - General
B12 - Classical (includes Adam Smith)
B0 - General
B14 - Socialist ; Marxist
A1 - General Economics
B50 - General
B24 - Socialist ; Marxist ; Sraffian
Article that appeared as Zarembka, P (ed) Economic Theory of Capitalism and its Crises, Research in Political Economy 18, pp285-93. Stanford, CT: JAI Press.
(http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/621298/description#description)
Responds to debate initiated in Research in Political Economy 17
(http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/621907/description#description)
This article formed the final part of a four-way exchange on the rate of profit which appeared in Research in Political Economy 17 and 18 in 1999 and 2000, between David Laibman, Duncan Foley, Andrew Kliman and Alan Freeman. This piece constituted Kliman and Freeman’s final response to the debate around Laibman’s initial critique of the Temporal Single System Interpretation (TSSI) of Marx’s value theory.
Keywords: TSSI, MELT, value, Marx, price, profit rate, Okishio, non-equilibrium, equilibrium, money
2000-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6717/1/MPRA_paper_6717.pdf
Kliman, Andrew and Freeman, Alan (2000): Rejoinder to Duncan Foley and David Laibman. Published in: Research in Political Economy No. 18 (April 2000): pp. 285-293.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6722
2019-09-26T09:26:07Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6722/
Geld (Money)
Freeman, Alan
B50 - General
B00 - General
B14 - Socialist ; Marxist
B24 - Socialist ; Marxist ; Sraffian
B51 - Socialist ; Marxian ; Sraffian
B40 - General
B12 - Classical (includes Adam Smith)
A1 - General Economics
This is the English language version of the entry on ‘Money’ (‘Geld’) in the ‘Historisch Kritisch Wörterbuch des Marxismus’, a comprehensive dictionary of Marxist terminology being produced as an accompaniment to the Marx-Engels-Gesamt-Arbeite (Marx-Engels collected works), a comprehensive critical edition of the works of Marx and Engels
The German-language version is available separately on this site
‘Geld’, entry in Historisch Kritisch Wörterbuch des Marxismus, Band 5: Gegenöffentlichkeit–Hegemonialapparat. Hamburg: Argument-Verlag, ISBN 3-88619-435-3
2004-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6722/1/MPRA_paper_6722.pdf
Freeman, Alan (2004): Geld (Money). Published in: Historisch Kritisch Wörterbuch des Marxismus, Band 5: Gegenöffentlichkeit–Hegemonialapparat. No. Band 5 (May 2004)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6724
2019-09-28T04:32:29Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6724/
Geld
Freeman, Alan
B50 - General
B00 - General
B14 - Socialist ; Marxist
B24 - Socialist ; Marxist ; Sraffian
B51 - Socialist ; Marxian ; Sraffian
B40 - General
B12 - Classical (includes Adam Smith)
A1 - General Economics
This is a prepublication version of the German language version of the entry on ‘Money’ (‘Geld’) in the ‘Historisch Kritisch Wörterbuch des Marxismus’, a comprehensive dictionary of Marxist terminology being produced as an accompaniment to the Marx-Engels-Gesamt-Arbeite (Marx-Engels collected works), a comprehensive critical edition of the works of Marx and Engels
The English-language version is available separately on this site
‘Geld’, entry in Historisch Kritisch Wörterbuch des Marxismus, Band 5: Gegenöffentlichkeit–Hegemonialapparat. Hamburg: Argument-Verlag, ISBN 3-88619-435-3
2004-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6724/1/MPRA_paper_6724.pdf
Freeman, Alan (2004): Geld. Published in: Historisch Kritisch Wörterbuch des Marxismus, Band 5: Gegenöffentlichkeit–Hegemonialapparat. No. Band 5 (May 2004)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6732
2019-09-26T18:01:00Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6732/
Non Verbal Communication in Business Life
Vintean, Adriana
A1 - General Economics
Everybody communicates on two levels, namely verbally and non-verbally. Verbal communication, or the spoken words we use, represent a very small portion (less than 10%) of our overall message. People can lie, misrepresent or mislead you with their words. Non-verbal language represents over 50% of our total message. Mastering the language of non verbal communication becomes more and more an art and has an impact on our outcomes. The non-verbal message will always be more a more accurate representation of the person's feelings, attitudes or beliefs.
2007-11-19
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6732/1/MPRA_paper_6732.pdf
Vintean, Adriana (2007): Non Verbal Communication in Business Life.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6734
2019-09-27T12:02:35Z
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EMERGING DIMENSIONS OF DECENTRALIZATION DEBATE IN THE AGE OF GLOCALIZATION
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar
H70 - General
A10 - General
In 21st Century the development landscape worldwide is constantly being shaped and reshaped by the simultaneous processes of globalization and localization (collectively called Glocalization). In this scenario the subnational political units are emerging as the principle actors in the global economy. With this the location or site of governance is changing. Thus the need is to situate the debate on decentralization in context of glocalization. This chapter is an attempt to understand ‘why’ and ‘how’ of decentralization─ the questions that have perplexed the policy makers and academicians in the age of glocalization. It has been argued that ‘how decentralization is designed’ depends on ‘why decentralization is being carried out’: Drive determines the design. The chapter reflects upon various dimensions related to the design of decentralization and shows that out of the competing approaches none forms an ‘ideal type solution’. Solution, it is agued, is to be found not in antipodes but in an ‘optimal mix of policies implemented with optimal pace’. Each country however must find its own ‘optimality’ given its tradition, geography, economy, income level, social structure and political choices.
2008-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6734/1/MPRA_paper_6734.pdf
Sharma, Chanchal Kumar (2008): EMERGING DIMENSIONS OF DECENTRALIZATION DEBATE IN THE AGE OF GLOCALIZATION. Forthcoming in:
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6743
2019-09-27T11:14:02Z
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Value, Price of Production and Market Price
Freeman, Alan
B51 - Socialist ; Marxian ; Sraffian
B40 - General
B12 - Classical (includes Adam Smith)
B0 - General
B14 - Socialist ; Marxist
A1 - General Economics
B50 - General
B24 - Socialist ; Marxist ; Sraffian
This entry, submitted to Philip O’Hara’s Encyclopedia of Political Economy but not included in it, contrasts the temporal and simultaneist approaches to the formation of price and its relation to value.
Keywords: price, value, transformation, Marx, TSSI, non-equilibrium, history of economic thought
2000-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6743/1/MPRA_paper_6743.pdf
Freeman, Alan (2000): Value, Price of Production and Market Price.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6744
2019-10-03T07:06:52Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6744/
Inclusion in a Polarised World
Freeman, Alan
Q5 - Environmental Economics
O5 - Economywide Country Studies
A1 - General Economics
I12 - Health Behavior
Q2 - Renewable Resources and Conservation
This paper on inclusion was presented to the at the 2005 summer school of DEEEP (Development Education Exchange in Europe Project), Härnösand - Sweden, 5 - 12 June 2005.
It addresses the significance of the concept of world civilisation. It assesses how meaning may be attached to the concept of inclusion in an economically polarised world. It develops a critique of the conception of economic inclusion, by means of an exploration of linguistic inclusion and the notion of ‘disability’.
‘Inclusion in a Polarised World’. Presented at the 2005 summer school of DEEEP (Development Education Exchange in Europe Project), Härnösand - Sweden, 5 - 12 June 2005 http://www.deeep.org/english/about_deeep/summer_school/2005/DEEEP_contribut.doc
2005
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Freeman, Alan (2005): Inclusion in a Polarised World.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6758
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Internet für alle? Die Diskussion des »digital divide« revisited
Krings, Bettina
Riehm, Ulrich
O34 - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences ; Diffusion Processes
P46 - Consumer Economics ; Health ; Education and Training ; Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty
L86 - Information and Internet Services ; Computer Software
A14 - Sociology of Economics
Die Diskussion um das digital divide oder die digitale Spaltung, wie sie für den deutschsprachigen Raum übersetzt wird, wird nun schon seit nahezu zehn Jahren intensiv geführt.1 Vor allem im Rahmen der politischen Diskussion hat sich das Bedrohungsszenario einer digitalen Spaltung innerhalb der Gesellschaften festgesetzt.
Aber auch weite Teile der wissenschaftlichen Debatte haben dieses Szenario aufgegriffen und aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven beleuchtet und analysiert. Obgleich sich diese Diskussion im Laufe der letzten Jahre sehr ausdifferenziert hat, ist die Stoßrichtung der Debatte, so unsere These, von einer dualistischen Struktur geprägt, die sich kontraproduktiv auf die Perspektive der Nutzungsbedingungen der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (im Folgenden auch IuK) auswirkt und bestimmte Sichtweisen ausblendet.2 Die Frage: Wer hat Angst vor der digitalen Spaltung?, die schon Mirko Marr (2004) gestellt hat, weist genau auf diese Engführung der Sichtweise, die in den folgenden Ausführungen diskutiert werden soll mit dem Ziel, den Umgang mit dieser Technologie als offenen Prozess umzudeuten, der keine Festlegungen der Nutzungsbedingungen des Internets vornimmt. Dieses Vorgehen vermeidet eine technikdeterministische Sichtweise und ermöglicht die Bewertung der Internetnutzung als eine funktionale Handlungsmöglichkeit unter mehreren Möglichkeiten.
In den folgenden Ausführungen wird die Debatte um digital divide diskursanalytisch rekonstruiert, indem im ersten Schritt der originäre Diskussionszusammen-zweiten Schritt seine wissenschaftliche Differenzierung darzustellen (2). Im Anschluss daran wird der Versuch unternommen, diese Debatte nach techniksoziologischen Ansätzen zu bündeln (3). Schließlich werden in einem Ausblick kritische Stimmen dieses Ansatzes diskutiert, die das Bedrohungspotential des digital divide entkräften sowie von ihren deterministischen Komponenten der Technikentwicklung befreien wollen.
2006
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Krings, Bettina and Riehm, Ulrich (2006): Internet für alle? Die Diskussion des »digital divide« revisited. Published in: Rehberg, Karl-Siegbert (Hg.): Soziale Ungleichheit, kulturelle Unterschiede (2006): pp. 3052-3061.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6797
2019-09-27T08:34:42Z
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WHERE ECONOMICS HAS BEEN HEADED? MULTIPLE IDENTITIES AND DIVERSITY IN ECONOMIC LITERATURE EVIDENCE FROM TOP JOURNALS OVER THE PERIOD 2000-2006 A FIRST NOTE
Caruso, Raul
Campiglio, Luigi
A10 - General
This short paper presents some preliminary results of an ongoing research work focusing on richness and diversity of economic literature. The key idea is that each article published in an economic journal retains multiple identities. These multiple identities are captured through the use of JEL codes. A sample of top generalist journals has been selected. The relative abundance of all JEL categories has been computed for the period 2000-2006. Moreover, a degree of diversity has been proposed for both the sampled journals and the entire Econlit database.
2007-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Caruso, Raul and Campiglio, Luigi (2007): WHERE ECONOMICS HAS BEEN HEADED? MULTIPLE IDENTITIES AND DIVERSITY IN ECONOMIC LITERATURE EVIDENCE FROM TOP JOURNALS OVER THE PERIOD 2000-2006 A FIRST NOTE.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6825
2019-10-13T23:52:16Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6825/
An Explanation to Individual Knowledge and Behavior Based on Empirical Substrates
Zhao, Liang
Zhu, Xian Chen
B31 - Individuals
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
B25 - Historical ; Institutional ; Evolutionary ; Austrian
B41 - Economic Methodology
B53 - Austrian
Using recent findings from modern empirical disciplines and mainly building on F.A.Hayek’s thoughts, the paper gives a definition of knowledge in accord with the Austrian School’s tradition, and basing on the definition, it sums up three behavior assumptions and a framework on explaining individual behavior and expounds ideas on hierarchical knowledge and its change in real situations. By this way, the paper believes that the Austrian School can be greatly advanced with the help of modern empirical findings.
2008-01-18
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6825/1/MPRA_paper_6825.pdf
Zhao, Liang and Zhu, Xian Chen (2008): An Explanation to Individual Knowledge and Behavior Based on Empirical Substrates.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6832
2019-10-04T10:35:22Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6832/
Catechism versus pluralism: the heterodox response to the national undergraduate curriculum proposed by the UK Quality Assurance Authority
Freeman, Alan
A22 - Undergraduate
A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
B4 - Economic Methodology
B5 - Current Heterodox Approaches
A14 - Sociology of Economics
A11 - Role of Economics ; Role of Economists ; Market for Economists
Paper presented to the 2007 conference of the International Confederation for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE), June 1-3, Salt Lake City, Utah.
This paper was authored by myself following consultations, and submitted collectively by the Association for Heterodox Economics, as a result of a consultation request issued by the QAA (Quality Assurance Authority) for responses to the ‘benchmark’ statement for the subject of economics. The benchmark statement seeks to define what will in future be considered the prescriptive standard for economics undergraduate teaching in the UK and in UK-certified institutions abroad. The QAA is responsible for the maintenance of academic standards in the UK and although a non-governmental body, plays a strong role in transmitting government requirements to the higher education sector. The benchmark thus represents the first attempt in UK history to regulate what is considered ‘good’ teaching in economics. It is a highly neoclassical and orthodox document and, it is argued in the AHE response, entirely lacking in a pluralist perspective. It represents an important landmark in that it sets out the consensus, among orthodox academics, of what the ‘mainstream’ consists of and how it should be taught.
The paper presented at this session represents the consensus, highly critical, response of UK heterodox economists and social scientists to the QAA benchmark statement. It also contains a comparison between the economics benchmark and that proposed by other social sciences, which suggests that economics stands in an isolated position in its attempt to define its field of enquiry by means of a strict prescriptive orthodoxy.
Keywords: Economics Teaching, Pluralism, Heterodox Economics
2007-06-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6832/1/MPRA_paper_6832.pdf
Freeman, Alan (2007): Catechism versus pluralism: the heterodox response to the national undergraduate curriculum proposed by the UK Quality Assurance Authority.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6862
2019-10-04T05:03:45Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6862/
Impacto do desinvestimento no mercado local de emprego: o caso de uma unidade da indústria metalomecânica
Moniz, António
Gomes, Cláudia
J08 - Labor Economics Policies
D21 - Firm Behavior: Theory
R53 - Public Facility Location Analysis ; Public Investment and Capital Stock
A14 - Sociology of Economics
This paper is a draft contribution for a definition of the concept of divestment. This topic is still very influenced by definitions from the fields of economics or management. Thus, from a group of definitions and approaches developed by different authors we try to elaborate on this divestment concept, searching for indicators and variables related to this practice. The founded indicators allow us to identify the main consequences and the potential social impacts due to divestment situations. Also we try to develop a methodology of research for analysis and impact framework that come from divestment action of companies.
2003-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6862/1/MPRA_paper_6862.pdf
Moniz, António and Gomes, Cláudia (2003): Impacto do desinvestimento no mercado local de emprego: o caso de uma unidade da indústria metalomecânica.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6866
2019-09-26T14:29:59Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6866/
COMPETITIVENESS OF THE PORT OF SINES: THE RBV CONTRIBUTION
Azevedo, Susana
Ferreira, João
L10 - General
M10 - General
A10 - General
M20 - General
L80 - General
The main objective of this paper is to analyze the competitiveness of the main maritime Port sited in Portugal - Port of Sines. This paper is developed under the Resource-based view approach. A literature review about the Resource-based view is presented with a special highlight on the contribution of organizations owns’ resources to the competitiveness. With this paper we intend to emphasize the applicability of a management theory to a different type of organizations which only recently start to be preoccupied with its competitiveness.
A case study methodology is used in order to collect all the information needed about its main resources and capabilities of Port and also its competitiveness. The resources analysed in this paper are: the infrastructures, the accessibilities, the Port operations and also the information systems used on it. Also, a set of performance data is analysed as the main indicators of competitiveness. After that, a conceptual model is presented in order to systematise the main resources and capabilities under which the competitiveness of the Port of Sines is built on.
2008-01-23
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6866/2/MPRA_paper_6866.pdf
Azevedo, Susana and Ferreira, João (2008): COMPETITIVENESS OF THE PORT OF SINES: THE RBV CONTRIBUTION.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6882
2019-09-27T12:07:07Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6882/
The general validity of comparative advantage in trade exchanges
Dogaru, Vasile
D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
C78 - Bargaining Theory ; Matching Theory
D61 - Allocative Efficiency ; Cost-Benefit Analysis
Q01 - Sustainable Development
A11 - Role of Economics ; Role of Economists ; Market for Economists
In a recent article, Alan Deardorff (2005) analyses the strength of the comparative advantage’s principle. The present article’s purpose is to follow the generalization of some recent results (Dogaru, 2000; 2005b) and also to sustain the unification’s necessity of some comparative advantage’s presentation drafts, in the analytical economy’s basis. This way the statement of real assumptions inside economics can be assured, connected to processes developed in an extended economic time and space. From this perspective comparative advantage’s analysis is necessary due to the existence of the tendency in which once with some new instruments’ creations, usually more formal and using a mathematical instrument more sophisticated, the validity of comparative advantage’s classic principle would be denied. The idea of introducing the validity of the comparative advantage’s principle in the trade exchanges – considered by Samuelson versus Stanislaw Ulam an accepted truth by all economists (and not only) as being un undemonstrated one – is not a productive one from an analytical point of view, which could contribute to the economics’ development.
2005-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6882/1/MPRA_paper_6882.pdf
Dogaru, Vasile (2005): The general validity of comparative advantage in trade exchanges. Published in: Romanian Economic Review , Vol. 49-50, No. 2004-2005 (2005): pp. 171-198.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6887
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6887/
Information Society, Work and the Generation of New Forms of Social Exclusion (SOWING): National Report (Portugal)
Moniz, António
Gomes, Cláudia
Machado, Tiago
Urze, Paula
J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
L6 - Industry Studies: Manufacturing
O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences ; Diffusion Processes
A14 - Sociology of Economics
The choice over the Portuguese case studies was based on the sample constructed for the application of the firm questionnaires, during the second year of the SOWING project, 1999. This sample was fulfilled of firms among several activity sectors: textile, manufacturing, electronics, transports and software industry, based on NACE – codes (2 – digit level). Thus, we agreed to include in a new database the remaining questionnaires and construct a sample with 113 observations. Concerning the organisational change we make a distinction of three categories of change. First we analyse changes taking place at the inter-firm level (outsourcing, subcontracting, geographic relocation), followed by changes at the organisational level (deconcentration/decentralisation, reduction of hierarchical levels, introduction of cost and profit centres). The third kind of changes analysed will be those taking place at the workplace level (job enlargement/enrichment, changing character of work, work load).
The Portuguese studied companies presents a relative uniform pattern considering the variables social competencies, practical knowledge, responsibility and specialized professional qualifications.
2001-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6887/1/MPRA_paper_6887.pdf
Moniz, António and Gomes, Cláudia and Machado, Tiago and Urze, Paula (2001): Information Society, Work and the Generation of New Forms of Social Exclusion (SOWING): National Report (Portugal). Published in: SOWING Reports No. PT case studies (January 2001): pp. 1-69.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6918
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Some observations regarding the demythification of the comparative advantage’s principle within Manoilescu generalized scheme
Dogaru, Vasile
O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth ; Aggregate Productivity ; Cross-Country Output Convergence
C78 - Bargaining Theory ; Matching Theory
D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
F13 - Trade Policy ; International Trade Organizations
D61 - Allocative Efficiency ; Cost-Benefit Analysis
A11 - Role of Economics ; Role of Economists ; Market for Economists
The validity in time of the comparative advantage’s principle, also of its application’s denial, can generate certain misunderstandings in the good exchange’s observation for an outsider (common sense), including the expert from other economics’ areas. The resolution for these cases can be made through checking requires’ discharging of the analytical economicity’s principle. In these conditions it can be noticed if the schemes, deducted in the analytical decomposition’s basis of the standard actions, can be used in the more precise and easier measurement than through empirical calculations in order to determine the comparative advantage’s size, of the gains from trade and the productivity effect. Manoilescu generalized scheme has, from this perspective the two main characteristics: its building has started from the empirical reality’s study of the exchange phenomena and the observation has been made only inside the economics’ borders. This way the scheme sustains the unitary explanations’ approaches of some different angles of understanding the comparative advantage on basis of some analytical efforts of other researchers. The suggested scheme separates the strictly economic analysis from the one inside the politic area (commercial politics), also of the productivity effect from more exact connections, decompounding the measurement in two steps. The identification through dialectical judgements, made as a continuation of the analytical ones, of the concordance between the built analytical reality and the empirical one, assures the check of the analytical economy’s principle. This step contributes to the permanent validity’s grounding of the comparative advantage’s principle in the exchange connections within the competitive economies. Meanwhile, the demythification of its full and permanent usage is also supported, in the way of its maximum potential’s capitalization in the manufactured and exchanged goods’ choice. The comparative advantage’s principle is nothing but an application of the minimum effort’s principle – the last one having a wider area of action – and will probably remain in the economies based on the social, competitive, monetary or natural relations.
2005-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6918/1/MPRA_paper_6918.pdf
Dogaru, Vasile (2005): Some observations regarding the demythification of the comparative advantage’s principle within Manoilescu generalized scheme.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6924
2019-09-29T01:23:39Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6924/
measures of social capital and trust
o'higgins, s. niall
Sbriglia, Patrizia
A10 - General
Trust and trustworthiness are important components of social capital and much attention has been devoted to the problems of their correct evaluation. Attitudinal survey questions as reported in the EVS – European Value Survey - are often regarded as inefficient indicators of trust, since they lack of behavioural underpinnings (Putnam, 1995) which one might desire when measuring trust.
In this paper, we consider alternative measures of trust and trustworthiness, based on behavioural assumptions. We construct two relative behavioural measures of trust (RBM1 and RBM2), both based on the ex post measurement of trust, once individuals are informed on the level of trustworthiness of the social group to which they have been allocated during the experiment. Our main finding is that the relative behavioural measures show that trust strongly varies once the individual is informed on the on the level of trustworthiness of the social group to which he\she has been allocated during the experiment. This difference is higher the higher is the family level of income and the parental education status. As for previous findings (Glaeser et al., 2000, Lazzarini, 2005) which have found no correlation between attitudinal and behavioural measures of trust, we find that relative behavioural measures are not correlated to attitudinal measures but they are strongly correlated to groups’ trustworthiness. We also find that similar social preferences profiles (between Senders and Recipients) tend to enhance the individual level of trust, in the RBM2 context. This result seems to confirm the importance of the homogeneity of the social environment when studying the effects of policy interventions (Alesina and La Ferrara, 2002).
2007-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6924/1/MPRA_paper_6924.pdf
o'higgins, s. niall and Sbriglia, Patrizia (2007): measures of social capital and trust.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6968
2019-09-30T00:39:53Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6968/
MODERNIZAÇÃO DA INDÚSTRIA PORTUGUESA: Análise de um inquérito sociológico
Moniz, António
L6 - Industry Studies: Manufacturing
O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences ; Diffusion Processes
O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
A14 - Sociology of Economics
The analysis on the technological and organizational change in the European industry, and particularlly the Portuguese one, has been studied at CESO I&D since its foundation on 1988. Few time after that, started a development project that started from a previous research project on the same topics, and supported by JNICT (Ministry of Science). In that projecto we continued to process data that was then not possible to do in the first one. It was then possible to continue a research programme that was urgent and determinant in the field of industrial sociology in Portugal. It focus again on the processes of technological and organizational change in the manufacturing industry.
1989-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6968/1/MPRA_paper_6968.pdf
Moniz, António (1989): MODERNIZAÇÃO DA INDÚSTRIA PORTUGUESA: Análise de um inquérito sociológico. Published in: Economia e Sociedade No. 1 (September 1989): pp. 117-160.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:7024
2019-09-30T21:49:27Z
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Friedman’s Methodology: A Puzzle and A Proposal for Generating Useful Debates through Causal Comparisons
Khan, Haider
A10 - General
B41 - Economic Methodology
Milton Friedman’s “The Methodology of Positive Economies” is still one of the most widely read pieces on economic methodology. One reason for this might be Friedman’s attractive proposal that economists use theories and hypotheses as pragmatic devices to summarize data and make predictions over the relevant range of observations. Logically, this should lead to a fair minded comparison among many contending theories. However, Friedman's actual examples and discussion of these examples raise a puzzle. The field of comparison seems unduly narrow from the beginning. In my attempt to resolve this, I consider some logical and ontological problems for Friedman's position. I end up by suggesting a scientific realist approach to testing theories by causal comparisons over a wide field of contending theories.
2005
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7024/1/MPRA_paper_7024.pdf
Khan, Haider (2005): Friedman’s Methodology: A Puzzle and A Proposal for Generating Useful Debates through Causal Comparisons.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:7066
2019-09-27T15:28:31Z
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A Citation-Based Ranking of Strategic Management Journals
Azar, Ofer H.
Brock, David M.
L0 - General
M0 - General
M1 - Business Administration
A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
M2 - Business Economics
Rankings of strategy journals are important for authors, readers, and promotion and tenure committees. We present several rankings, based either on the number of articles that cited the journal or the per-article impact. Our analyses cover various periods between 1991 and 2006, for most of which the Strategic Management Journal was in first place and Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS) second, although JEMS ranked first in certain instances. Long Range Planning and Technology Analysis & Strategic Management also achieve a top position. Strategic Organization makes an impressive entry and achieves a top position in 2003-2006.
2007
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7066/3/MPRA_paper_7066.pdf
Azar, Ofer H. and Brock, David M. (2007): A Citation-Based Ranking of Strategic Management Journals. Forthcoming in: Journal of Economics & Management Strategy
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:7110
2019-09-27T13:31:33Z
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The sociological perspective on the knowledge-based society: assumptions, facts and visions
Krings, Bettina
J80 - General
F20 - General
O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences ; Diffusion Processes
A14 - Sociology of Economics
The paper will present the central discourse of the knowledge-based society. Already in the 1960s the debate of the industrial society already raised the question whether there can be considered a paradigm shift towards a knowledge-based society. Some prominent authors already foreseen ‘knowledge’ as the main indicator in order to displace ‘labour’ and ‘capital’ as the main driving forces of the capitalistic development. Today on the political level and also in many scientific disciplines the assumption that we are already living in a knowledge-based society seems obvious. Although we still do not have a theory of the knowledge-based society and there still exist a methodological gap about the empirical indicators, the vision of a knowledge-based society determines at least the perception of the Western societies.
In a first step the author will pinpoint the assumptions about the knowledge-based society on three levels: on the societal, on the organisational and on the individual level. These assumptions are relied on the following topics: a) The role of the information and communication technologies; b) The dynamic development of globalisation as an ‘evolutionary’ process; c) The increasing importance of knowledge management within organisations; d) The changing role of the state within the economic processes.
Not only the differentiation between the levels but also the revision of the assumptions of a knowledge-based society will show that the ‘topics raised in the debates’ cannot be considered as the results of a profound societal paradigm shift. However what seems very impressive is the normative and virtual shift towards a concept of modernity, which strongly focuses on the role of technology as a driving force as well as on the global economic markets, which has to be accepted. Therefore – according to the official debate - the successful adaptation of these processes seems the only way to meet the knowledge-based society. Analysing the societal changes on the three levels, the label ‘knowledge-based society’ can be seen critically. Therefore the main question of Theodor W. Adorno during the 16th Congress of Sociology in 1968 did not loose its actuality. Facing the societal changes he asked whether we are still living in the industrial society or already in a post-industrial state.
Thinking about the knowledge-based society according to these two options, this exercise would enrich the whole debate in terms of social inequality, political, economic exclusion processes and at least the power relationship between social groups.
2006-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Krings, Bettina (2006): The sociological perspective on the knowledge-based society: assumptions, facts and visions. Published in: Enterprise and Work Innovation Studies No. 2 (November 2006): pp. 9-20.
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Wandel der Arbeit: Die Krise der Arbeitsgesellschaft
Krings, Bettina
J01 - Labor Economics: General
O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences ; Diffusion Processes
O14 - Industrialization ; Manufacturing and Service Industries ; Choice of Technology
A14 - Sociology of Economics
In 1982, at the 21st German Congress of Sociology the discussion was around a new topic: the crisis of the labour economy. Since then the conditions changed and the informatisation and technology development of work environments took place. Here are presented some of the new trends in terms of analisis of changes in the work environment.
Der im Jahre 1982 durchgeführte 21. Deutschen Soziologentag in Bamberg mit dem Titel „Krise der Arbeitsgesellschaft?“ wurde sicherlich bewusst mit einem Fragezeichen versehen.
Wenn im Rahmen der „Verhandlungen“ in Bamberg noch die Möglichkeit ausgeschlossen wurde, wissensbasierte Tätigkeitsfelder zu „normieren“, so wurden über die beiden organisatorischen Instrumente der Selbstorganisation
und der Flexibilisierung höchst effektive Rahmenbedingungen geschaffen, um die Nutzung der Arbeitskraft zu kontrollieren und zu steigern.
Aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln und Arbeitskontexten beschäftigen sich alle Beiträge des vorliegenden Schwerpunktes mit dem Wandel der Arbeit.
2007-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7130/1/MPRA_paper_7130.pdf
Krings, Bettina (2007): Wandel der Arbeit: Die Krise der Arbeitsgesellschaft. Published in: Technikfolgenabschätzung – Theorie und Praxis , Vol. 16, No. 2 (June 2007): pp. 4-12.
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