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This paper studies aggregate dynamics in a cobweb model where learning takes place through a selection mechanism, by … in a way that favors the most profitable firm types. Selection may be inadequate because firms are being selected on the … basis of incorrect market signals. Selection itself may reinforce such mispricing, thus generating instability. I compare …
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This paper studies aggregate dynamics in a cobweb model where learning takes place through a selection mechanism, by … in a way that favors the most profitable firm types. Selection may be inadequate because firms are being selected on the … basis of incorrect market signals. Selection itself may reinforce such mispricing, thus generating instability. I compare …
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This paper studies aggregate dynamics in a cobweb model where learning takes place through a selection mecanism, by … in a way that favors the most profitable firm types. Selection may be inadequate because firms are being selected on the … basis of incorrect market signals. Selection itself may reinforce such mispricing, thus generating instability. I compare …
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This paper studies aggregate dynamics in a cobweb model where learning takes place through a selection mechanism, by … in a way that favors the most profitable firm types. Selection may be inadequate because firms are being selected on the … basis of incorrect market signals. Selection itself may reinforce such mispricing, thus generating instability.I compare …
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We characterize efficient allocations and business cycle fluctuations in a labor selection model. Due to forward … from selection effects, rather than general equilibrium effects. We also develop sufficient conditions on wages, which are … selection models …
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George Orwell's famous fictions, Animal Farm and Nineteen-Eighty Four were intended to advocate democratic socialism by portraying undemocratic forms of socialism as totalitarian. For Orwell, democracy was a political institution which would limit the abuse of power. But there are several...
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This paper synthesizes, in one Leontief economic model, the arguments of exploitation and unequal distribution of wealth by Roemer (1982,1986) and of the power relationship between employers and employees concerning the labor extraction by Boyles and Gintis (1988,1990). The author introduces the...
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This paper synthesizes, in one Leontief economic model, the arguments of exploitation and unequal distribution of wealth by Roemer (1982,1986) and of the power relationship between employers and employees concerning the labor extraction by Boyles and Gintis (1988,1990). The author introduces the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005780309
Milton Friedman (1962) famously argued there can be no freedom of speech where the government owns the printing presses. According to Friedman, political freedom presupposes economic freedom. Less well-known are F. A. Hayek's and John Jewkes's illustrations of the same principle, both drawing...
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Significant gains in human rights have been achieved over the centuries, and our advancement in economics has been an important factor in this progress. In very recent time, a more substantive understanding of economics has revealed uneven expected (investment) risk as a cause of poverty, and...
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