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Confused confusers. How to stop thinking like an economist and start thinking like a scientist
Kakarot-Handtke, Egmont - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The present paper takes it as an indisputable fact that subjective-behavioral thinking leads, for deeper methodological reasons, with inner necessity to inconclusive filibustering about the agents’ economic conduct and therefore has to be replaced by something fundamentally different. The key...
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A Critical Marxist Approach to Capital Theory
Cavalieri, Duccio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Marx, after his epistemological break described by Althusser. The accounting practice of defining and measuring income and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259412
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Has the level of achieved education affected the income of Czech households
Birčiaková, Naďa; Antošová, Veronika; Stávková, Jana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper deals with an analysis of the effects of education on the income of Czech households from 2006-2010. EU …-SILC (European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions) review results are the main data source. The paper investigates with … by the head of the household. It further deals with income differences of individual educational groups expressed by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259592
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Urban Poverty in Vietnam: Determinants and Policy Implications
Nguyen Viet, Cuong; Vu Hoang, Linh; Nguyen, Thang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This study examines the profile and determinants of poverty in the two largest cities in Vietnam – Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh. Data used in this study are from the 2009 Urban Poverty Survey. Using the poverty line of 12,000 thousand VND/year, the poverty incidence is estimated at 17.4 percent for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259822
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Geometrical exposition of structural axiomatic economics (I): Fundamentals
Kakarot-Handtke, Egmont - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
the pure consumption economy. The geometrical analysis makes the interrelations between income, profit and employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259823
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Does economic prosperity bring about a happier society? Mathematical remarks on the Easterlin Paradox debate
Beja Jr, Edsel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The Easterlin Paradox—the perceived absence of a relationship between economic progress and happiness—is one of the most important continuing debates in economics. Yet, both sides of the extant debate are anchored on valid mathematical arguments. The preponderance of evidence is therefore...
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Toolism! A Critique of Econophysics
Kakarot-Handtke, Egmont - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Economists are fond of the physicists’ powerful tools. As a popular mindset Toolism is as old as economics but the transplants failed to produce the same successes as in their aboriginal environment. Economists therefore looked more and more to the math department for inspiration. Now the tide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260316
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How do we value our income from which we save?
Liberda, Barbara; Peczkowski, Marek; Gucwa-Lesny, Ewa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this paper we analyze the relationship between the perception of income as satisfying household needs and saving … into one of the groups categorized by the subjective perception of income in relation to the current household disposable … income. The variable specified for the valuation of income is income perception, defined as a class of observed disposable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260570
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Understanding Profit and the Markets: The Canonical Model
Kakarot-Handtke, Egmont - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Neither Walrasians nor Keynesians have a clear idea of the fundamental economic concepts income and profit, nor of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260927
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Structural social capital and health in Italy
Fiorillo, Damiano; Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in Italy. The analysis draws on the 2000 wave of the Multipurpose Survey on Household conducted by the Italian Institute of Statistics on a representative sample of the population (n =...
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