This report summarises findings of the project 'Benchmarking the socio-economic performance of the EU social economy', (Call for tenders EISMEA/2022/OP/00159 Lot 1). This study assesses the socioeconomic weight of the 'Proximity and Social Economy' ecosystem and its contribution to a...

This report summarises the findings of the project 'Benchmarking the socio-economic performance of the EU social economy'. Across the 27 Member States, the social economy includes more than 4.3 million entities1. Social economy entities are mainly cooperatives, mutual benefit societies,...

The history of development economics has been portrayed as a succession of fads and magic bullets. This study inquires whether behavioral approaches to economic development are destined to become such a fad or whether they have long‐lasting contributions to offer. I first show that behavioral...

Diese Studie untersucht, von welchen Einflussgrößen die Nachfrage nach Festnetzanschlüssen in Deutschland abhängt und welche Bestimmungsfaktoren sich für eine räumlich disaggregiert Modellierung eignen. Es sind verschiedene Themenkomplexe, die in diesem Kontext eine Rolle spielen. Dazu...

This paper analyzes 630,000 paintings from 1400 onward to uncover how visual art reflects its socioeconomic context. We develop a learning algorithm to predict nine basic emotions conveyed in each painting and isolate a context effect--the emotional signal shared across artworks created in the...

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Meaning of Liberal Emancipation – An Outline -- Chapter 2: Property Rights and the Liberating Effect of Generalized Increasing Returns: A Reassessment of the New History of Capitalism and the Economics of Slavery -- Chapter 3: Buchanan’s Theory of Emancipation:...

This paper develops a general theory of socio-economic stratification based on the interconnection between a specific micro-level mechanism and a broad macro-level process. At the micro-level, it examines selective social identity stigmatization; at the macro-level it explains social exclusion...

Combining satellite imagery with machine learning (SIML) has the potential to address global challenges by remotely estimating socioeconomic and environmental conditions in data-poor regions, yet the resource requirements of SIML limit its accessibility and use. We show that a single encoding of...

The relationship between the degree of inequality and the demand for redistribution has been a central question in political science and political economy. The famous median-voter model predicts that higher inequality, reflected in a growing gap between the income of the average and the median...

Um fundierte Aussagen zum Stand der Integration treffen zu können, muss zunächst geklärt werden, was diese konkret beinhalten sollte. Aus der Definition des Dudens einer "Verbindung einer Vielheit von einzelnen Personen oder Gruppen zu einer gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Einheit" (Duden,...

This paper provides a unified framework for interpreting a wide range of interactions models which have appeared in the economics literature. A formalization taken from the statistical mechanics literature is shown to encompass a number of socioeconomic phenomena ranging from out of wedlock...

This chapter explores the evolution and contribution of social economics to modern political economic analysis. It reviews the origins and early history of social economics, discusses more fully recent postwar social economics, and then identifies new themes in social economics’ current...

This paper develops a model of individual decisionmaking in the presence of social interactions when the number of available choices is finite. We show how a multinomial logit model framework may be used to model such decisions in a way that permits a tight integration of theory and...

This paper provides an analysis of aggregate behavioral outcomes when individual utility exhibits social interaction effects. We study generalized logistic models of individual choice which incorporate terms reflecting the desire of individuals to conform to the behavior of others in an...

The paper brings together a range of ideas on the construction and nature of what may be termed a post neo-liberal social economy. The social democratic era of the early post-war decades and the neo-liberal era of the past four decades are briefly considered. Some general thoughts on the...

This publication features a collection of papers discussing the factors which have an impact on the quality of life and the subjective sense of well-being of local communities. The articles also provide empirical explanations as to what extent the developmental levels of the regions studied...

The Limitations of Human Understanding of the World -- The Evolution of the Thinking Paradigm and Its Philosophical Basis -- A Bird’s-eye View of the Economic Society -- The Micro-level of the Economic System: The Dynamic Structure and Evolution of the Firm -- The Meso-level of the Economic...